What other schools should I look at? LACs?

Twoin18
Fri, 30 Apr 2021 22:38:13 +0000

What’s your budget? Have you checked you EFC? Hard to give advice without that. Even though you live in Texas you presumably won’t qualify for auto-admit to UT, which might make it hard to get in.

Unless Utah keeps the same criteria for merit as this year, you will likely need a higher ACT score (33-34 for OOS) to get decent merit, so might be good to retake this summer/fall. Under the new structure for non-WUE scholarships you need to stay for the summer after freshman year to get residency. New Mexico and Arizona are more generous with merit and you might want to add those as they may be cheaper if you don’t get a good merit scholarship from Utah. However, Utah is a great school and IMO has a better mix of outdoor activities.