Chances of getting into A&M? *help*

AggieMomAgain
Wed, 19 Sep 2018 21:58:52 +0000

@futureaggie405 : Scores and class rank are 50% of what is considered for TAMU admissions. Your class rank and SAT score are below the Academic Admit threshold. But hopefully your essay and LORs discussed how you have overcome growing up in poverty and are demonstrating a strong drive to succeed. That is the other 50% of the review process and is the part that we can’t see on the forum. Hopefully, you have touched the heart of the reviewer.

There are posts on this forum which breakdown the chances for Review Admissions based on past years’ statistics. I can’t seem to post links but maybe you can find those posts or someone else can post the links/data.

If you can take the SAT again or the ACT (they offer one at TAMU that is only scored for TAMU) and improve your score, that could help.

Mays only takes 1,000 Freshman and almost all of those seats are filled by Top 10% Auto Admits and Academic Admits. Sometimes very high scoring students who are outside of the Top 25% get into Mays. From what I have read on this forum for the past couple of years, most Review Admission candidates who want Mays are asked to choose their second choice Major, IF they are offered Full Admissions. Getting into Mays Business School at TAMU is just extremely, extremely competitive. When the 1,000 seats are filled, that is it.

Just for comparison: My HS Class of 2017 daughter with 3.5 unweighted gpa, high 4s weighted, SAT 1250 (580M, 670R), ACT 27, ranked in 53% of her class, received an offer of TAMU Blinn-TEAM in mid February 2017. She originally planned to Major in English.

Blinn-TEAM is a great opportunity. Full Admissions is always “Plan A”, but I consider Blinn-TEAM and Gateway both as “Plan A-” as those offers keep you living in CStat. You should also have a Plan B and apply to other safety schools. You might be offered a PSA and it is a good idea to know about the other schools in the TAMU system. You can transfer into TAMU later if you aren’t offered Full/Blinn-TEAM/Gateway, as long as you plan ahead and take the appropriate classes and make great grades. But transferring into Mays is supposed to be harder than getting in as a Freshman. There is also the PTA program, check that out on the TAMU website. Just be prepared for any type of offer. Don’t depend on only receiving a full admissions offer. It really doesn’t matter where you start out, if you finish college at TAMU, the diploma and ring are the same.

If you can improve your SAT test score, that will help. Can you channel the energy that you are putting into checking online towards studying to improve your score?

As a review candidate, you are probably not going to receive an offer until possibly Feb.2019 or later. That is a very, very long time from now! There are just many, many thousands of applications and the Automatic and Academic Admits are notified first. Checking the Howdy Portal repeatedly, many times every day, doesn’t make the process go any faster.

And don’t miss out on enjoying your Senior year, it will go by quickly and can never be repeated.

Good luck, keep us posted.