Chance me for UT Austin?

xrocker
Sun, 17 Apr 2016 17:54:01 +0000

A repost from the Texas Colleges forum, I didn’t know where to post
I’m a high school junior this year planning to apply to UT Austin once fall rolls around. Can you guys give me an estimate of my chances of getting in? I’m planning to get into electrical engineering at the Cockrell College of Engineering. I’m a student in the Houston suburbs. Not too sure of my school’s “competitivity.” This year I’m taking 6 AP courses out of 8 courses, at the end of this year, I’ll be finished with 10 AP courses under my belt. Pardon me if I don’t follow peoper stat formats, this is my second post on CC.My school has 8 classes and is on an A/B day alternating schedule

Intended major(applying to) Electrical Engineering, haven’t decided on what to choose for second choice major yet, probably another engineering one

Run down of my stats
Rank - not sure but definitely in 7-10% so no auto admit (everyone above me is binging on AP courses like me so my rank is going to stay in place throughout this year) and we have a class of slightly over a hundred, I believe
SATs - haven’t taken yet, but PSAT were 1200/1520
GPA Unweighted - school doesn’t do this kind but I believe it to be around a 3.2 - 3.6 using a college’s GPA calculator
GPA Weighted - 4.03(predicted by end of junior year) - my school gives extreme GPA inflation to AP classes
Freshman year bombed with a 3.0 with a C in an English class - 1 AP class, some difficulty transitioning to high school, honestly no legitimate excuses here
Sophomore year - stepped up with 3 AP classes - made it through with only B in history, rest is all As
Junior year - 6 AP , and have two Bs only in history and AP Spanish
ECs - Quizbowl 2 years, haven’t participated in any competitions, only participated after school
Science Olympiad - 2 years
Track team - 1 semester
Achievements - Placed in school science fair, 10th
AP Scholar Award
Science Olympiad State, 9th grade (regional finalist)
Also took two community college classes at the end of sophomore year in the summer
Planning to volunteer somewhere this summer along with more community college classes.
1st generation college applicant, neither parents have a 4 year degree
Income bracket is 20k - 40k
And I’m Asian so academic expectations of me are probably assumed to be higher
Please give your honest opinion on my chances because I’ve already had enough optimistic talk from my counselors. Some advice on what else I can do at this point to drag up my chances, even little, will be appreciated!
Thank you for your replies and good luck to anyone else applying to UT!