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Rankings are pretty bunk...more important stat is the 40% admissions rate. That is on high side for large national public universities. Compare this to Cal and

Rankings are pretty bunk...more important stat is the 40% admissions rate. That is on high side for large national public universities. Compare this to Cal and UCLA which are both around 17%. Again, if you had all the resources in the world to prepare for the SATs because from birth you went to the best school, had private tutors, SAT prep, etc. there is almost no reason why you shouldn’t be able to get above the median score for SATs for UT Austin, which should be enough (save a few edge cases) for getting in.

bachmeier 8y ago
> Rankings are pretty bunk...more important stat is the 40% admissions rate. It doesn't seem that you're familiar with the public university system in the US. I work at an R1 public university with an admissions rate over 90%. "Compare with Cal and UCLA" is not how you determine if a school is "mid ranked". Texas is not first tier for sure, but that's not what I was responding to.