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Originally Posted by knight_shadow
Were you Top 10%? Texas is a bit of a different animal.
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No. I was top 20%. I am not from Texas, I went to a Private school with a very challenging curriculum that routinely sends off atleast 10 members of each graduating class to various ivy league schools.
I only played sports my freshman year, but had a long line of extracurricular activities, and I had strong marks (3.42GPA) and great comments from my teachers (extremely hard worker, goes above and beyond, etc.). Top that off with the fact that I was very blessed and fortunate enough to have had a phenomenal guidance counselor/academic adviser that wrote me a wonderful letter of recommendation.
To be honest, i was a bit surprised that I was admitted. But I was very fortunate and blessed to be.