How hard is it to get into UT@Austin from California from a top HS in California?

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<p>Hello there,</p>

<p>I go to one of the top private high schools in Los Angeles, CA. My gpa is around 3.5 and I assume I will get a 1950-2000 GPA.</p>

<p>What would I need to do recieve admission?</p>

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<p>I wish I have a 2000 GPA =(. </p>

<p>With a 2000 GPA/SAT, You have a good chance with getting in.</p>

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<p>Your high school has a specific UT admissions officer. You could ask her for advice.</p>

<p>It is generally difficult to get into UT from in-state not top 10% or from out of state. </p>

<p>I think that SAT scores in that range are average for out of state or in-state not top 10% students admitted to UT.You might try taking the ACT. If you can get from 34 to 36 on the English and Math sections, that will help I think. If the 3.5 is an unweighted GPA and you have taken a lot of AP classes, that will help I think. Your essays matter. Keep watching the UT Admissions web site to see the fall 2009 essay topics posted and do a good job on the essays: write, re-write, edit. Make sure you have good extracurricular activities and leadership experience.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>What is the SAT and GPA averages for the top 10% kids?</p>

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<p>It is very very hard. UT this year accepted about 10-15% of its OOS applicants. You need a 1400+ and at the lowest a top ten percentile class rank.</p>

<p>UT does not care about your GPA, they care about your rank. What is that?</p>

<p>UT does not care what school you went to nor how rigorous your curriculum is. They don’t take it in to accout. If anything, you will lose out for attending an upper-income school.</p>

<p>Only CR and M scores are used at UT. The average is a 1330 as of last year. This will likely rise higher this year, probably to 1400ish.</p>

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<p>I know after 2008 they will factor in the Writing session (according to one of the counselors who came to my school).</p>

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<p>what?? Are you serious? Please post a trusted link, because that doesn’t sound right. I am far from amazing and UT was a safe match for me OOS. Wow, I can’t believe I took Texas for granted, but if that’s true, I feel really proud of myself for getting in.</p>

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<p>Here is the link to how ut chooses kids who are not top 10% in texas. They say they use a holistic review process for in state kids outside the 10% line and for out of state kids.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-texas-austin/458711-how-ut-chooses-not-top-10-students.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-texas-austin/458711-how-ut-chooses-not-top-10-students.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The mean SAT score for top 10% kids in 2007 was 1225.
The mean SAT score for not top 10% kids in 2007 was 1246. (It was 1277 in 2005 and 1257 in 2006.)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/HB588-Report10.pdf[/url]”>http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/research/HB588-Report10.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>(These statistics are on pages 9 and 10 of this December 2007 document.)</p>

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<p>california love,
most of what loneranger said is right… although the acceptance rate and test scores he said aren’t really official. Seeing that 80% (rather than 70% last year) of the class are top 10%, those numbers are probably close to correct.<br>
I’m looking at your stats, and UT was definitely not a safe match…</p>

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<p>There is an OOS profile floating around here somewhere, but I can never seem to find it.</p>

<p>Those numbers have a 30% OOS acceptance rate and average SAT of 1330. That is either from last year or the year before. The OOS student percentage has been cut back from 10% to 6% because of the huge influx of top ten kids. So that obviously is going to make it tougher to get in. My numbers are just estimates but I think you will find them to be quite accurate when compared to the official numbers.</p>

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<p>UT’s OOS admissions is NOT holistic, regardless of the fact that they bandy that word about.</p>

<p>If you read the document, you will find it is almost entirely based on academic scores. They look at a whole list of factors including your family background and your extracurricular resume as well as essays and turn this into a single number from one to six and place it on a graph. It is not as holistic as it could be as rank is still the primary factor. You will not get a Harvard-esque holistic review at UT. You will get a cursory reading of your essay and resume and an admissions officer will reduce your app to a number.</p>

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<p>I think this is what you were referring to.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-texas-austin/405621-profile-oos-students.html?highlight=profile[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-texas-austin/405621-profile-oos-students.html?highlight=profile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>The numbers in the December 2007 report I posted the link to are the average SAT scores of the students who end up attending UT, not the average SAT scores of the out of state students admitted to UT. The fact that the numbers I posted are a bit lower isn’t a contradiction.</p>

<p>Your guidance counsellor’s office would have the material posted above by UcMichigan, showing the mean SAT score of out of state students admitted to UT.</p>

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<p>are there official numbers for this academic session yet? Btw, 30% for OOS means it’s much, much easier to get into than the previous 10-15% that was posted earlier…</p>

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<p>OK, safe match was probably pushing it, but my point is that I got into Texas really comfortably without trying hard and I’m OOS. I mean, I heard back within 2 months, which I hear is relatively quick for OOS, and I applied somewhat late. So UT definitely wasn’t a high match or anything. I’m just really surprised because the way longranger makes it sound, getting into UT OOS is like getting into UCLA OOS, when that is clearly not the case (although UCLA did accept just about everyone I know from OOS…including a few with worse stats than me)</p>

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<p>Those numbers are from 2 years ago. Two years ago the number of Texas top ten kids was about 60-65%. Last year it was 70 and this year it is 81%.</p>

<p>It is incredibly hard to get into UT out-of-state, as hard as it is to get in to an Ivy League school.</p>

<p>UCLA is harder to get in to if you are Texan, if you aren’t it’s a lot easier.</p>

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<p>At some point I think they will release total number of applicants and number accepted for the three interesting groups (in state not top 10%, out of state, and international) and it will be entertaining to see what happened this crazy year.</p>

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<p>See, I think this is where we disagree. I personally don’t really think that UT is that hard to get into OOS. I got waitlisted at Cornell, which is the easiest ivy to get into, while I got into UT comfortably. I know it varies from applicant to applicant, but still. I don’t see how UT is nowhere near as difficult as UVA and such are OOS, and schools like UVA are like getting into ivies from OOS, not UT.</p>

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<p>California_love, the numbers don’t agree with you.</p>

<p>Just the fact that you yourself got in does not make it easy on the whole to get in.</p>

<p>UT’s OOS admissions are much more formulaic and numbers-based than the others, so perhaps you may have had solid stats but lacked the flair that schools with more holistic review methods were looking for.</p>

<p>But if you get in to UT OOS, that is more impressive than getting in to Cornell. Cornell has about a 20% acceptance rate. For students not in the top ten percent of a Texas HS, the UT acceptance rate this year was 17%.</p>