Top 2% in class (in TX)=Automatic acceptance into McCombs?

WeLaughIndoors · 10-02-2006, 09:35 PM

Has anyone else heard this? My best friend thinks that as long as you're in the top 2% of your class, you are accepted into UT's McCombs Business School. Is there any truth in this? I googled, but couldn't find anything relevant.

zkevin · 10-02-2006, 09:57 PM

Yes I've heard students in Top 10% of class get auto-accepted to U of T. I'm not sure if it's different for McCombs though... :S

Dorian_Mode · 10-02-2006, 11:29 PM

I think that's nothing but hearsay, but I have no concrete evidence.

j07 · 10-02-2006, 11:31 PM

I've heard the top 2% thing also, but I don't have any evidence either. I do know that a lot of my friends who were in the top 5% or top 6% didn't get into McCombs...I think the general thing is that top 10% Texans automatically get into the school of Liberal Arts, top 5% gets into school of Communications, and then as you get into schools like Engineering and Business it gets to be top 2% and top 3%. I'm not sure about that though.

metonymy · 10-02-2006, 11:33 PM

I don't think it's automatic acceptance. There are people applying from out of state in addition to all the people in the top 10% with guaranteed admission to UT anyway, and space is limited. McCombs is one of UT's most popular schools, and if the top 2% were guaranteed acceptance then the remaining spots are kind of... limited.

I knew a senior last year who got accepted into the Engineering school, and he was barely top 10%, so I don't think the "guarantee" is something to fret over.

Cooldude11989 · 10-02-2006, 11:38 PM

not automatic, but you HAVE to be in top 2% to have a legit show.

j07 · 10-03-2006, 06:30 PM

OK, a UT-Austin admissions counselor came to my high school today and gave a pretty detailed presentation and he explained it like this.

There are 7 schools that award acceptances based on the following policy: Nursing, Engineering, Business, Kinesiology...and...sorry guys I can't remember the four others. But definitely McCombs.

75% of the space in these schools is reserved for Texan top 10% applicants. First they go through and all the applicants of that pool (Texan top 10% kids) who are in the top 1% of their class are admitted. Then they go through the next round with top 2%, and this continues until 75% of the space is filled. Afterwards, the remaining 25% of space is filled with applicants from a different group: the remaining Texan top 10% kids who didn't get in already, everybody from Texas who is NOT in top 10%, and everybody else who applied OOS or internationally.

Basically, he said that top 2% or top 3% is the general place where that first 75% is filled in terms of Texan applicants. He did say though that it's not entirely automatic...if you are top 2% of your class with a 800 out of 1600 SAT score you will...probably not get in to McCombs.

kirklandalanbob · 10-03-2006, 06:36 PM

top 2% of class in TEXAS? That doesn't say a lot... Most of the high schoolers in Texas schools, shall I say, are a little on the slow side

metonymy · 10-03-2006, 08:25 PM

Umm... you don't go to school in Texas, do you, kirklandalanbob?

GoBlue81 · 10-03-2006, 09:13 PM

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top 10% Texans automatically get into the school of Liberal Arts, top 5% gets into school of Communications, and then as you get into schools like Engineering and Business it gets to be top 2% and top 3%.

I know that Business and Communications are more selective, as it's stated on the UT website. But is Engineering more selective than Liberal Arts? Are you saying that it is as selective as McCombs?

kirklandalanbob · 10-03-2006, 10:10 PM

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Umm... you don't go to school in Texas, do you, kirklandalanbob?

I know people that do... Their schools are not that great, lots of people drop out and there are schools where the school only sends one person to an ivy league school every hundred of years

Dorian_Mode · 10-03-2006, 10:32 PM

And I'm sure that your friends go to a representative sample of Texas schools, kirklandalanbob. For what it's worth, Texas has one of the higher score cutoffs for National Merit Scholars, which would seem to indicate that not all students are "a little on the slow side."

Luxar3000 · 10-03-2006, 10:52 PM

j07 is pretty much dead on, as far as I know.