<p>If your student can get into the top X% for guraranteed admissions for UT Austin, that is one thing. To get into a specific school at UT, is a whole other. I have nephews in TX who went to rigorous high schools, did well but didn’t make the cut for Austin neither of them did, for UT at all. However, some friends of theirs who did at less rigorous schools who did get into UT Austin.did not all get into their first choice schools within the university. My one nephew is now at UT Austin after a year at A&M in one of those hard to get into as a freshman major, but the field does open up after freshman year for some of those schools do to the first year weed out courses. CS and engineering, along with other STEM majors have a high attrition rate.</p>