I meant to add earlier, that a friend of my son’s, who was in band with him, was first chair all region and I want to say 2nd chair all state on the Saxophone. He was a good student but not NM commended and probably top 15-25% and he is a music major at UT. He is thriving. He is a serious musician and always has been.
UNT is also a great school for music. Three of his band buddies go there as well but only one is a music major and I think another is in one of the bands. I’ll have to ask again.
UT Arlington is a great engineering school that admits direct to his desired major and has a partnership with Lockheed. Both in Ft. Worth and Grand Prairie. A&M does not admit directly to engineering major. All freshmen are placed into general engineering and there is a highly competitive process they go through to get into an engineering major. It is based off their over all GPA and their general engineering curriculum GPA.