I totally forgot about this student being an international applicant. That makes his college list even MORE top heavy. He needs to consider that acceptance rates for international students are roughly half of that for US citizens/permanent residents.
I believe he would be granted instate status and enrollment consideration at Texas colleges. But this needs to be checked. Perhaps @texaspg knows.
And agree…UT Austin absolutely should be on this kid’s list. I suggested that upstream as his sure thing IF he maintains top 6% (and that doesn’t change by the time he enrolls), and if this all applies to international students.