Chances of getting in?

AggieMomAgain
Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:46:20 +0000

From your several threads asking to be chanced for TAMU, it looks like you have retaken the SAT and improved your score, but it just isn’t quite high enough for the Academic Admit score.

Sorry, the advice is still the same: Since you are in the Top 20%, your best bet is to improve your SAT score to the Academic Admissions level or take the ACT and score the required level.

Otherwise, as a Review Admissions applicant, your chances are around 13%. Tens of thousands of applications are received, only the Top 10% Automatic and the Top 25% Academic Admits with the required scores are assured of admissions. There are fewer spots left over for Review Applicants, many of which would do very well in college, but there just are limited seats at TAMU. So many applicants end up shut out. Admissions to TAMU is just so very competitive and just getting harder each year. It is just a space issue. There just isn’t enough room for everyone who wants to be an Aggie to start out in CStat.

There is always a small possibility of receiving Gateway or Blinn-TEAM admissions which would keep you in CStat and living the Aggie life, but a LOT of people, many thousands, end up receiving offers of PSA or denied admission. Some of these end up transferring into TAMU later, but the transfer process is also very competitive.

TAMU offers an ACT on campus that is only scored for TAMU. See if you can take the test there asap. If there is a practice ACT offered online, take that to get an idea of how you will score. Go over any weak areas and study, study, STUDY!!. Treat this like a job, this score will be a big part of determining where you go to college. Think about it. It would be so much nicer to have the assurance Academic Admissions rather than dealing with the stress of being a Review Applicant and not receiving your offer until Feb 2019 or later.

When you set up the TAMU offered ACT, also set an official campus tour and set up meetings with an adviser in your major and see if you can sit in on a course. Doing this shows that you are really serious about going to TAMU.

I think that you want us to say that you have a great chance, but the reality is that your chances with those scores are about 13%, based on what has happened in previous years. It sounds like you are well prepared for college. If your heart was set on any school other than TAMU (or tu), you would surely be a lock in for admissions. But those are the top 2 schools and TX is a big state with a lot of HS graduates who want to go to either TAMU or tu. Unfortunately, that is just the reality.