We’re on our way home now, and I wanted to share our impression of TAMU.
We ended up doing the self-guided tour, and spent about 2.5 hours on campus.
We started with a great tour of the student Rec center, which is the best we’ve seen on our various college visits. Our tour guide was a pre-Med student, and my daughter picked her brain about her experience. Then we went through the MCS, where booths were set up for Greek and other organizations. We walked to Sbisa and had lunch at Smashburger, walked through the Ellis library, and visited Hullabaloo.
Overall impression is that the campus is huge and much nicer than we expected. Everyone was friendly, and I think TAMU moved up on my D’s list.
We also went to Baylor and UT on this trip. The schools are all very different, but each is in the running.
Thanks for all the advice and recommendations!