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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are the Ters

Cal, UCLA, Mich
UT Austin, UNC, UVA, GTech, UCSB, UCSD

UF UGA Wisc, UCI, UCDavis,

UIUC

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Close. More like:

Cal, UCLA, Mich
UNC, UVA, GTech
UF, Wisco
UGA, UIUC, Purdue

Notice all those other UC schools are absent. Just because U.S. News & Woke Reports ranks them highly now because of Pell Grant and first-gen data doesn't mean they're elite schools. Solid, yes, but not among the 10-12 best publics -- no way.[/quote]

Why did you leave UT-Austin (the school this thread is actually about) off your list? It belongs somewhere in between your 2nd and 3rd groups of schools.[/quote]

Oversight. It should be with UF and Wisco despite its impossible admissions from OOS. That is balanced by the fact that anyone from Texas can get in, even with a 900 SAT, if they finish in the top 6% of their hood/trailer park high school.[/quote]

No one who gets a 900 on the SAT is finishing in the top 6% of their high school class...no matter how hood/trailer park.[/quote]

Ever been to Sunnyside or the Third Ward in Houston?

Where the hood, where the hood, where the hood at.[/quote]

Every Texas public high school is included.  I’m not sure if those students even need to take a SAT/ACT test since it’s an auto admit based on GPAs.  [/quote]

Yep.[b] I'm sure there are plenty of kids UT Austin who scored less than 1000 on the SAT [/b](or whatever the ACT equivalent is).[/quote]

I don't think there are many. https://www.prepscholar.com/sat/s/colleges/UT-Austin-admission-requirements#google_vignette

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The thing a lot of people miss about the top 6% admissions stats are that test scores still matter for admission to specific majors. Getting admitted to UT doesn't guarantee any specific major and engineering/CS/B school are very competitive. So there are lots of kids who get admitted to UT Austin but attend a "directional" campus (or elsewhere) because they want a specific course of study.  You do get some who will go in and take their chances with their major, but if you look at the message boards, the decision about admissions to Mccombs and CS/Engineering are the real break point. [/quote]

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