What are my chances?

CommanderCurry
Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:10:53 +0000

Thanks amelds for you reply!

I’m an Asian-Indian and I also got a 34 on my ACT.
I just visited UT yesterday, and I really liked it. I realize Princeton is really stretching it, if not possible, but as of now, Cockrell is my number 1 choice.

What really gets me is that I’m hearing that Cockrell looks pretty much only at GPA and rank. I am ranked 18/434 with a GPA of 5.482/6.0

Like I said, for the fall 2012 admissions, only the valedictorian, salutatorian, and our number 3 were admitted into Cockrell. Starting with our number 4 (who, by the way, would have made a phenomenal engineer) were rejected from Engineering, but not UGS.
It’s really dismaying because if UT follows the same trend for this year, I won’t get in to chemE at UT, which is something I had really looked forward to ever since I settled on chemE during my sophomore year in high school.

I know I’ll get in to UGS for sure because I’m in the top 8% but I won’t go to UT unless I am accepted to Cockrell.

Thanks again for our post, and let me know if there’s anything going on at UT concerning admissions. I’d really appreciate it!