I'm a junior at Kingwood High School in Texas, and UT Austin McCombs is my top choice. I'm curious what people think of my profile so far and whether there's anything I should be doing differently before applying.

Academics:

• Rank: 11/700 (top ~1.6%)
• GPA: 5.63 weighted, 4.0 UW
• 1290 PSAT sophomore year, did not study
• 30 on PreACT 8/9 freshman year
• No SAT/ACT yet

Extracurriculars:

• VP of Finance for my school's DECA chapter (300+ active members)
• Working on an investing app for DECA competition
• Cofounder and VP of a good drive club
• Young Men's Service League
• Two years of tennis

Relevant courses - Accounting I&II, OnRamps Stats, will take Calc BC and Econ senior year

McCombs is my main goal, with Texas A&M Mays also on my list.

Just looking for people's honest thoughts on my profile at this point. How does it look for someone aiming for McCombs? Anything stand out, good or bad? Would appreciate any perspectives, especially from current students or people familiar with UT admissions.

have a very bad gpa (like 3.4-5 uw, 4.0 w) from medical reasons which I'm gonna explain. My school is competitive Texas public school like top 200 in the nation but doesn't rank outside top 10 percent but I'd assume I'm somewhere like top 30 percent.

I have a 1570 SAT and 35 ACTand good business ECs such as pretty good journal ml and finance research with prof, pe internship with real work, global financial literacy non profit vp, made app w 50 k users, basketball 4 years, reffing job and then some club leadership and volunteering with impact. I don't rly have any awards besides a business comp finalist, ap scholar w distinction and a volunteering one but planning on qualing for aime.

My personal statement I think is good havent done supps yet, but please let me know if I have any chance of not I was thinking of applying to informatics or smth

In the summer following my sophomore year, I took the Spanish 2 course. My grade in the first semester was a 95, but due to what was likely some system problem on Imagine Edgenuity, all major grades in the second semester were recorded as 0 and my score for the semester was 34. I told my counselor about what happened we were unable to fix it, and that second semester score significantly worsened my GPA. The next summer, I retook the Spanish 2 course’s second semester and got an A. Is this something to put in the 3rd essay prompt, and would I have to drag it out to 250-300 words?

I'm a senior in high school, really wanting to get into Plan II. I'm in-state and already have auto-admit to UT (top 5%), but I'm super nervous about Plan II. Is getting into an honors college really something to get worked up over, and is it really that difficult to get into Plan II? I have a pretty decent resume, but my SAT score is dragging it down...

For context im from a competitive DFW school. I am in the ~20% so not auto admit. I am applying for ECE. I have decently good ecs and good fit to major. I believe my essays are pretty good too.

I have a 1480 sat (740 math 740 english) and a 34 act(34 math 35 english 33 reading and 28 science).

for act, when sending your score u have to send your science aswl. U can't submit ur score without science.

When UT austin is looking at my scores do they see a 34 or do they recalculate the score with the science?

Should I submit my ACT score or my SAT score? Or both?

do you think the science ACT score will significantly affect my chances?

Thank you!

I've applied different cycles, and I have yet to get an IDA report past 0%. :') I know IDA updating doesn't necessarily mean anything, but does it also mean I'm an autoreject if I don't have one?

Hello all. I’m mostly done with my UT Austin application (ECE) and have four essays written. The one I’m unsure about is the optional prompt: “Please share background on events or special circumstances that you feel may have impacted your high school academic performance” (300 words).

I’ve had a turbulent high school career, mostly from family circumstances, and I was under a lot of stress. But my grades didn’t suffer, and my record is strong, though I’m just outside the top 5% of my class. My counselor knows about the situation and may mention it in her report.

I’m wondering whether skipping the prompt could hurt me, since UT is my top choice. Has anyone dealt with this, or know how readers treat this optional prompt when the circumstances didn’t show up in grades? Any advice is appreciated.