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Holistic review of ALL applications for engineering began with class TAMU class 2021.
Auto admits to A&M who apply to engineering and by the October 15 deadline have received admission decisions to the University in Mid September (around the 19th) and admission decision to General Engineering as below:
Nov 11 for Fall 2017,
Oct 5 for Fall 2018
Oct 12 for Fall 2019
However, take the early decision deadline with a grain of salt. Not all auto/academic admits will hear by Dec, despite having applied by the early decision deadline. Every year since the holistic review and early decision deadline, auto and academic admits have been deferred until January for an admission decision for engineering. Most (but not all) review admits who applied to engineering will receive
@TexasGuy2019 What are your test scores with sub scores.?
No longer do you have to list 1st and 2nd choice as an engineering major in order to apply for engineering. If you want to be considered for the major, you must put an engineering major as your first choice. While it isn’t common, not all auto top 10% applicants are accepted into engineering. Some perform poorly on the standardized tests or have limited maths and are rejected from the major. If the applicant had put an engineering major as their 1st and 2nd choice, they are still admitted to the university and will be asked to chose from any open major. That said, if not offered full admission to College Station general engineering, (again, you need to have low scores or limited maths) an auto admit/academic admit could be offered first year Engineering at Galveston or Blinn Engineering Academy or less likely, unless you live in the region, the Engineering Academy at McAllen.
The majority of all applicants, Auto Top 10%, Academic Admits and Review Applicants who apply with engineering as their 1st choice major will be offered an engineering admission decision and their second choice majors are not considered at all. If you have good SAT/ACT math scores, you most likely will be offered full admission to College Station.
The engineering major you put on the application is meaningless in regards to the major you will have in College Station. In April of your freshman year, you will have your first attempt to apply to ETAM (Entry To A Major). Getting into a major is competitive. Students below the auto 3.5 do get their first choice but it isn’t a lot below that. There are also many who only want one major and are disappointed when they end up not being qualified for entry to it. So sometimes, applying to a school that offers direct admit to the major is best for some.
The top 25 engineering programs in the country are direct admit to major or have first year engineering programs that have a second tier to get through to get into a major.
As an auto admit, You can apply all the way to the deadline of Dec 1 and still get full admissions (but highly do not recommend-so many had issues with their supporting documents arriving late or didn’t check their Applicant Portals that everything was received and were rejected). Engineering does not fill up like Mays or Visualization with X number of seats available.
All freshman applications are reviewed by Admissions not the engineering department. ETAM and Transfer applications are reviewed by engineering departments.