Please Chance Me At McCombs

23kid
Fri, 04 Nov 2022 18:36:07 +0000

Hello! I’m a high school senior who’s applying to UT Austin’s Red McCombs School of Business. Had I been applying any other major, UT would likely be a safety

US Citizen
Texas Resident
Attended Top 15 Private High School in Texas with strong connections
White
BHP legacy but they don’t consider that

Applying for Finance

Stats
36 ACT (36/36/36/35 superscored, 36/36/35/35 single sitting)
4.23 GPA (4.0 scale, school doesn’t calculate unweighted nor rank, max GPA is a 4.6 for juniors)
Outside of top 6% (non-auto-admit, I think the auto-cutoff is somewhere in the high 4.4 range)

Max rigor soph/junior year, 1 short of max rigor freshman year and 2 short of max rigor senior year

APs
Calculus AB - 5 (junior)
English Language & Composition - 5
Microeconomics - 5
Computer Science Principles - 5
Statistics - 4
Macroeconomics - 4
Computer Science Java - 4
Upcoming Senior Exams
Calculus BC
US Government & Politics
Physics 1
Physics C: Mechanics (Self-Study)
Physics C: Electrocity and Magnetism (Self-Study)
Psychology (Self-Study)
English Literature & Composition (Self-Study)
Human Geography (Self-Study)
The self-studies sound like a lot but I’m honestly bored to death in school this year, I already know everything in BC and I have an A+ in AP Physics. I’ve already started my self-studies and I’m well on pace to be fine.

Awards
AP Scholar with Distinction
Principal’s Honor Roll
JV Doubles District Champion (Tennis)

Extracurriculars
Interned as an accountant at a manufacturing company downtown over summer, 40hrs/wk.
Built a fitness program that I’m currently upscaling into app, coach and train lots of peers. Sold rights to sell my program to a respected fitness coach/influencer with 17k followers.
Track sales and purchasing a generate financial reports for my friend’s vintage clothing resale startup
Worked as a pool attendant for a local club for 2 summers. 10hrs/wk
Ex-Semi-Professional E-Sports Player, placed top 500 in World Cup Finals tourney in my North American Region (40 million competitors globally). Garnered a following of upwards of 29,000 followers and played for an organization (Apex Gaming) with over 250,000 followers. Celebrity gaming prodigy Clix also played for this organization, but left for Misfits about a month before I signed. Withdrew from gaming due to academic and athletic obligations.
Captain of freshman tennis team (played for 2 years, JV A sophomore year)
4 years of chess club and 15 years of chess

Essays
My essays are very strong. I’ve compared them with other applicants applying to similarly competitive colleges, and while the impact of the general material is similar, mine are significantly more well-written (no diarrhea of the mouth, grammatical inaccuracies etc.)
I also wrote the optional extenuating academic circumstances essay as I missed over a third of both my first semester freshman and first semester junior years due to unusually frequent and long-lasting battles with illnesses. These 2 semesters are responsible for my GPA and are the difference between my GPA being a 4.23 and a 4.5.

I mostly just wanted to be chanced for UT McCombs, but if someone wants to chance me for these schools as well I’d certainly appreciate it.
Michigan
North Carolina Chapel Hill
Yale
Rice (my school has really good acceptance rates here and I’m legacy)
Virginia
Penn