<p>Hi All. I am a current senior at a suburban high school in Houston, TX. What do you guys think of my chances to UT PGE and Engineering Honors?. Anyways, sorry about the chatter. Here are those cold, hard stats </p>
<p>SAT1: 2130(740 Reading, 700 Math, 690 Reading)-Not planning on retaking
ACT-planning to take…expecting around 32/33
SAT2: World History-660
GPA: 3.7ish unweighted…Unfortunately, school won’t release transcripts upon requests as it is “backlogged” </p>
<p>Rank: 40/791</p>
<p>AP Courseload-did not send: AP Computer Science A (3), AP World History (3), AP US History (2), AP Chemistry (4), AP Biology (3), AP Spanish Language (2), AP English IV (2)</p>
<p>Senior Year Courseload: AP Government, AP Economics, AP Physics B, AP Calculus BC, MedTerms, OfficeAid</p>
<p>Major Awards:
*National Merit Commended
*AP Scholar
*Gurmukhi Award for Speech Competition (1st place)
*other miscellaneous awards </p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Computer Science Club (UIL Liason Officer-sophomore year; Represented team at annual HP CodeWars competition; selected for UIL team); HOSA (20-30 hours of community service over a span of three years); NHS (volunteering); Spanish NHS (volunteering); Chess Club (local tournaments); Sikh Club (founder and President-invited national level bhangra teams and performances to school/marketing and networking/ handle funding from external resources); Woodlands Rugby (ranked sixth in nation; chosen for state qualifiers-how should I prove this? no paperwork to back it up); Volunteered at several HISD schools
Job/Work Experience:
*Paid tutor for algebra/precal
*Intern at Texas A&M University’s chemical engineering department for summer under a TAMU professor’s laboratory
*Intern at local business (SAP Consulting)
*Computer Science teacher under Schlumberger Log-In event (received certificate)
Teacher recommendation: NONE FROM TEACHERS…someone said you don’t need them…but I heard it’s recommended that you get one 
will this hurt me? I got one from TAMU prof and a grad student…they wrote pretty good ones a page long…is that good enough?
Alumni Recommendation: TAMU professor that I worked with; He is on the news a lot and known in the engineering industry</p>