what's the ONE thing that is different about Texas? Public school. All the rest are private. I'd go to Stanford, too... unless I wanted to be POTUS, in which case, I'd go be a cheerleader at Yale. None of those is a bad school to go to. Rice is not cheap, and I don't think they do "free" very well.
hell, stanford waives tuition for any student whose family is making under $100k. __________________________________________________ so family A making $99,999.99 gets a free education and family B making 100,000.01 has to pay full tuition?
She's either in-state outside top ten or a punter. I also heard stories (not confirmed though) that UT rejects the Ivy types since those kids have no interest in attending The University.
Come on, all of you went to college right? Did y'all forget there are more costs than just tuition, right? I mean just the little things like an APARTMENT & FOOD! Tuition is only a small factor. Cost of living is the main prohibitive factor in going to any school far, far away. Most schools will find the student (or the parents) ways of paying the tuition, because that's all the school cares about! But ya still gotta live somewhere....
I entered UT in 2000, and I know several people that happened to. I had a friend that went to boarding school, got rejected from the b-school at UT, so he went to Harvard. There were also several kids admitted to Plan II that year that had to do provisionals to get into the university. Most of them went to elite Texas private schools.
I showed my daughter this thread... she reminded me that one of her friends was accepted by Brown and rejected by A&M on the same day. She apparently applied late to A&M...
This is how she made her list: One school out of her reach-Yale two schools within reach-Stanford, Rice One school well within reach and her mother is an alum-Duke Her favorite school that her grandfather and 8 cousins are alums-Texas She applied early to all of them and they all said yes except Texas. Her mother and father make about $400,000 a year. I cant figure it out.
I know Texas is legally allowed to take ethnicity into account now but their official policy is they don't. I'm guessing with ~85% of the 2008 class coming from top 10% admitees, and assuming she's not top 10% herself, she's competing with an extremely competitive pool of in-staters, out-of-staters, and international students.
Texas likely rejects those that are clearly IVY material. I believe the law school practices this too. A good part of the rankings is how exclusive you are. Schools will play these games to work the rankings.
Interesting and insightful posts so far. Dr. Powers seems to have hit the nail on the head and definitely understands the core problem. Obviously finding a solution is the hard part, but at least he has a clear understanding of why the 10% rule isn't working. To get back to the OP: Does the application process ask where else the applicant applied? If so, I think the answer is the admissions people knew your niece was overqualified, and was merely using UT as a back up school. If it isn't blatantly asked, I wonder if they have access to where the applicant sent their SAT scores. If I see Rice, Yale, Stanford and UVA, I would probably not accept either and give the spot to someone who is fully qualified but only applied to UT and some other lesser schools....like A&M
Well, then we know she wasn't top 10 percent. Do you happen to know how many were in the graduating class?
extracurriculars: Chess club-4th in state Jr year. Debate club-State debate champion Jr year, runner up Sr year. works once a month at a homeless shelter serving food works for habitate for humanity. Went to Duke Jr year for game theory class. Yes she wanted to go to Texas in the worst way, her grandfather wanted to pull some strings but she said no, guess she wishes she had taken him up on his offer now.
