@SitDownBeHumble I realize this is long and I hope it isn’t tl:dr I want you to understand the difference of where you are and where you could be coming from.
Other people’s stats do not matter. As easy as it is to do, you should not base your possibility as a review applicant against someone else. You do not see their whole application file and essays, and the AO’s do.
Being Auto or academic admit gets you into the university. You are a review admit. Here is how it goes down.
Before you can be reviewed for engineering, you need to gain admissions into the university. As a review applicant, your chances are diminished over being an auto/academic admit.
As a review applicant, do you have a shot at full admissions to College Station? sure. So do a lot of other review applicants. For last year’s incoming freshman class, there were 27,000 review applicants. Twenty Seven Thousand. 14% of them were offered full admissions, which included Engineering at Galveston. That is roughly 3800 across all majors. Are you going to be one of those around 14% that gains admission? Maybe. Is 10 points from being an academic admit worth that chance? That is why I said, if you can retake the SAT and qualify for academic admission, with your follow up post of your math & physics readiness, you are likely to get into engineering. General Engineering does fill up, just not by rolling admissions but by the qualified auto/academic admits.
------------------------AGMomX2 did a great job with recording and comparing admissions info. I edited out the comparison to the TAMU class of 2018. Here is the post with the whole stats. http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/texas-m-university/1974794-tamu-class-of-2018-vs-class-of-2021.html#latest
For the TAMU class of 2021, there were 42,000 applications received. 19,800 (47% of total apps) were offered full admission.
16,000 of those offers were to auto/academic admits (81% of full admissions offers).
3800 of those offers were to review (holistic) applicants (19% of full admissions offers).
Number of review applicants: 27,000
Here’s the Review Admit category breakdown: ( the quoted numbers for 2021 do not add up nicely, so estimates)
14% Full admission (College Station any major and Galveston Engineering)
9% Blinn Team
2% Gateway
39% offered PSA
26% no offer of admission/denied admissions
New categories for Class 2021 with mix of admits due to holistic review of all engineering:
Galveston Engineering 1,200 (Galveston is considered full admissions since it is a branch and not a system school)
McAllen Engineering 580
Auto and Academic admits are going to be reviewed for engineering before review admits. Most review admits for engineering will not receive an admission decision prior to December 1. A&M has to accept the auto/academic applicants and must put them somewhere if they do not qualify for engineering. Those that do qualify, will begin to fill up the number of spots allotted to incoming freshmen. They will reserve a few spots for review applicants, just as Mays does.
TAMUAdmissions on TexAgs from a July post said the following: TAMUAdmissions 8:26a, 7/25/17 AAG
“It is not an exact science, of course, but Mays may fill up about the same time as Engineering - perhaps late November or early December”.
In the past, as I said above, many review engineering applicants who had good class rank and high SAT/ACT but out of the auto/academic admit category, were offered Engineering at Galveston (again, considered a full admissions offer). At Galveston, you complete your first year courses there and auto transfer to College Station sophomore year (if you qualified for entry to major).
You have a very good SAT and class rank and are so close to academic admit. I just wanted you to understand the competitiveness as a review applicant into the university and all of the potential possibilities as such. You are soooooo close to academic admit that it would make your path a lot less nerve racking if you were to become one.
Good Luck.