PeglegGrad

The Liberal Arts Honors Program does not, as a rule, publish the average SAT scores of admitted students. Each student's application is reviewed in its entirety in order to get a complete picture of the applicant. As far as I know there is no SAT cut off score. I did ask one of the LAH program administrators for the average SAT score of students entering the program and was told it was about 1400. So, some scores are above 1400 others are below 1400.

Longhornsg

There is no SAT minimum or standard to have. Scores of the freshmen I know in LAH range from 1960-2310.

PeglegGrad

I think I should modify what I just noted about the 1 in 7 Liberal Arts Honors Program acceptance rate. The director of the UT-Austin LAH Program posted on the UT College of Liberal Arts website the following information about the 2009 LAH entering class. According to the director, there is a total LAH student population of about 500 students, "120 of whom are freshmen, selected this year (2009) from 985 applicants."

theloneranger

LAH has 120 freshmen ATTEND out of 920 applicants. This is not the acceptance rate.

Of 920 applicants, if half are accepted, that means that 460 would have been accepted. UT has a yield of around 50%, so around 230 would come to UT. Then you've got the kids who choose to do Plan II or another honors program or no honors program, and not LAH, so you'd end up with around 120.

These are all just estimates and assumptions, but from everything I can tell the acceptance rate seems to be around half.

PeglegGrad

Lone Ranger, I think your analysis is fair. The thing to keep in mind is that the profile of the typical student attending LAH is a student with SAT scores in the area of 1400 and a high school ranking in the top 4%. Hence, it is logical to assume that the accepted students are coming from a pool of applicants with similar backgrounds.

BTW, to read a very good comparison of the two programs go to the analysis provided on the Plan II website located at the, UT College of Liberal Arts

The prestige of the older Plan II aside, either program provides an outstanding college education at a very reasonable cost, with both programs emulating a small college atmosphere within a large world class university. Admission to graduate school is facilitated quite well by participation in either program.

PeglegGrad

Actually, to be more precise, for the fall 2009 semester, there were 7 applications for every space available. Check the LAH website for the precise wording (UT College of Liberal Arts).

buriedalie

So I'm guessing it takes a while for the resume to show up as part of the honors application?