@Messipass To piggy back on Barfly, your GPA/test scores/etc. will only get you in the door to general engineering. Admission to your major will depend to how well you do in your first-year classes and how rigorous your schedule was. This is the trend; Purdue and Michigan’s admission policies are the same.
Don’t think your first year will be a cakewalk. Because A&M actively recruits NMFs and its Engineering College is so good, you will be competing with hundreds of students with very high GPAs and test scores. My Aggie freshman son was also accepted to Georgia Tech, Michigan, Texas, and Purdue, but A&M had far and away the best combination of merit scholarships and a top-notch engineering program (which is only getting better.) He ended up doing very well his first semester, but he worked extremely hard to earn those grades.
Here are the US News undergraduate program ratings: (At schools whose highest degree is a doctorate)
11 Aerospace / Aeronautical / Astronautical
3 Biological / Agricultural
16 (Tie) Chemical
11 Civil
19 Computer
16 Electrical / Electronic / Communications
11 Industrial / Manufacturing
14 (Tie)Mechanical
US News doesn’t rank Petroleum Engineering, but either Texas or Texas A&M top most lists. http://www.qualityeducationandjobs.com/top-petroleum-engineering-schools/
A&M Graduate Engineering Programs are even higher ranked and A&M is second only behind MIT in graduate engineering research funding.