@traugott7 Hi - I don’t have much to offer in the way of numbers or status of admissions to BIMS program, but I do have experience of what happened to my son. He applied last year with BIMS #1 and Public Health #2 - his stats were top 12%, 29 ACT (met minimum in both Math and ELA with 28s in each) - he was actually 0.25 points away from 29.5 (which would have been academic admission). He had the extracurriculars and I believe about 18 hours of DC and 3-4 AP classes. He was offered PSA in March.
Even though they told us that they don’t look at majors, we read about so many BIMS applicants being turned away with similar stats as my son. Same for Public Health. We believe that these majors are rising in popularity and are rapidly filled up by auto/academic admits (much like Mays and Viz). AND I read somewhere (in more than one place) that TAMU has the #8 BIMS undergrad program in the US so that definitely ramps up competition.
While BIMS is NOT a PSA major, my son was still offered PSA and had to choose another major to continue this path. He is currently at TAMU CC as a biochemistry PSA major with the full intention of being at the cstat campus Fall 2020. I believe he will continue the same path my daughter is taking now at TAMU - I think he will also continue the biochemistry path at TAMU. He’s doing very well carrying a 4.0 into finals week (starts this Saturday for him).
Even if offered PSA - it’s just an alternate route with the same destination and finish. We are currently looking into houses for him to rent with my daughter starting Aug 2020 and he cannot be more excited!