Chances for admission if OOS?

MidwestMom2Kids_1
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:18:18 +0000

It is okay that a student’s HS does not rank. If the student is a national merit scholar or from a very competitive high school with grades and coursework show the person is a very good student, say National AP Scholar/AP Scholar with Distinction, I do not think the student will trouble getting in from out of state. I think that about 500 out of state freshmen come to Texas each fall.

My out of state daughter’s out of state roommate is in Dean’s Scholars, which I believe is the honors program for the College of Natural Sciences. We have heard it is hard to get into, but I don’t know any details about it. Definitely apply! Honors programs are a nice way to make a big school like Texas become a lot smaller. Other programs that are nice for this are the FIG Freshman Interest Groups and the TIPS scholars and Texas IP. These help first-year students not have to compete with the masses when registering for your first fall semester of classes, and give first-year students a small academic group to interact with freshman year.