@TxSker While 1310 qualifies for academic admit it will not get him into engineering. Beginning fall of 2017, all applicants will undergo the holistic review process, even auto and academic admits. http://engineering.tamu.edu/easa/areas/recruitment/admissions. top 18% and barely over the threshold for academic admit are not strong numbers when compared with the applicants he will be up against. They are not terrible stats, just not stellar. He should still apply. If he didn’t get full A&M for engineering, he is a good candidate for Engineering at Galveston, and Engineering academies at Blinn.