Chance TAMU CS + minor, Honors Program Questions

Asian2Mom
Mon, 06 Aug 2018 20:43:23 +0000

My daughter is a rising senior. She loves UT Austin until we found out it’s hard to change your major there. She has a broad span of interests, in other words, she does not yet know what to study/major. UT Austin is pretty rigid especially when it comes to hot majors like cs or business. She has some consistency built into both CS and business, she’s also interested in public health and environmental science, but overall not really into biology and chemistry.

We are searching for a good school with more flexibility so that she can either change her mind in college, or double major, or major and minor in multiple areas. I’m not sure if TAMU is the right fit for her in this regard, and hope to get your insight.

What is her chance of getting admitted to TAMU CS, double major or minor in business, or double major or minor in public health?

What is her chance of getting into honor’s program? Does TAMU have a linguistics major (I didn’t find one)? She’s also interested in computational linguistics.

My daughter’s stats:

Asian American, Texas resident, Female

Ranking: 112/724 (15.6%)

Weighted grade: 98.6/100

SAT 1460 (720-reading/writing, 740-math)

ACT 35 (36-english, 35-science, 35-writing, 33-math)

Awards

DECA freshman, sophomore, junior years: 1 state, 2 nationals (not ranked)

DECA officer: VP

NHS junior year

NHTS junior year

Gold Award (at her high school)

Extra Curriculars

Cross Country JV

Piano 10 years

Violin just started learning

Volunteer

Senior living: 100+ hours

Others: some hours

Since TAMU comes into our consideration pretty late in the game, I’d appreciate any answers to my questions, or any advice in general you may offer.