D20 Chances at Mays?

S18D20mom
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 19:39:10 +0000

Thank you all so much for the great input! @Mommydoodle , your post is confirmation to what I was thinking she would be up against. I am really surprised that your daughter didn’t get in at all with that score! Do you mind sharing where she has decided to go? @Thelma2 I knew there were a handful of review applicants that got into Mays in October. I didn’t realize they were URM or Century Scholars. That makes sense to me now.

I am a Texas State alum and she was not expecting to like Texas State at all, but she was pleasantly surprised. She really loved the SFA campus. She grew up going to Pine Cove summer camp in Tyler and it reminded her a lot of that. It sounds like a visit to U of H is in order! Her grandma went to OSU and they give a $5000/yr scholarship to alumni children/grandchildren. That along with OOS academic scholarship would bring it down to comparable to A&M cost.

I think her only hope is that she get into the top 10% She is only 10 spots away which honestly just makes it hurt worse and makes me hate the Top 10% rule but it is what it is! I guess we need some people to move Even if she prepared a lot for the retests, I realistically don’t see her getting a high enough score for academic auto admit.

I am totally prepared for Plan B and just want to find one that she can be happy with. She is naively optimistic and says that she knows people who got into A&M with lower scores and rank so she is overly confident that it will work out. Of course, she doesn’t look at the statistics or read College Confidential. Ignorance is bliss. I have tried to explain how competitive it has gotten but it has fallen on deaf ears.