<p>So, my daughter is starting at TAMU this fall in mechanical eng. and after reading several older threads about scheduling and course load, it looks like maybe taking distance courses at Blinn (during the mini mesters) for a few of those pesky electives (HIST105, POL206, POL207) may be her best bet. She would have to take distance classes since we live in Tennessee, and there are not a lot of electives that she could take here that would transfer directly to TAMU. So, for those of you who did that, I have a couple of questions…</p>
<p>1) Should she apply to Blinn now so she can take a courses during the winter mini mester?<br>
2) How many classes are doable over the holiday? (Just 1 or possibly 2)
3) When does registration for these distance classes start?
4) She is classified as in-state for TAMU tuition; is there any way to qualify for in-state tuition at Blinn given her status at TAMU?
5) Does she need to get approval from her advisor to take these elective classes at Blinn?</p>
<p>thoes pesky courses are not electives… they are required courses you have no choice in
but yes - take them at Blinn.
wouldn’t be a bad idea to submit application early, especially if there are several transcripts involved. I would wait until Fall semester begins though, there is something about if you don’t take a full semester after acceptance, you will have to reapply. My daughter took 4 classes at three different colleges for High School Dual credit - and then a mini wintermester at a different college still for a math on-line course. We ended up having to round up thoes 4 college transcripts & the TAMU transcript to gain entrance to Blinn. 5 college transcripts and it takes some a long time to send them… A&M the longest! It wasn’t easy to gain admission to Blinn!
I have no idea about Blinn in-state tuition. You might have to call Blinn admissions and ask about that.
My daughter did not have to have permission from advisor to take the online course last wintermester or maymester at Blinn. Took course and submitted transcript back to A&M, credits posted in just a few days. Some on here have said otherwise, wouldn’t be a bad idea for her to run it by her advisor</p>
<p>I am sure you can take equivalent classes for Freshman / Sorph in Tennessee U. S2 did that in UCI-CA. The procedure is print out the course detail from TAMU web site and look into the U euqivalent of your state. Then email the information to the advisor. Base on those information, the advisor will tell you the equivalent credits either Community college or in our case Cal-State U / UniversityCalifornia. Some courses the advisor did flat out say No to community college. Some partial Ok, some fully OK in UC only. For electives he satify most by AP credits.</p>
<p>Well, I have used the compass website, and surprisingly, there aren’t too many of those classes that transfer from univ. of memphis or the cc here in memphis, so that’s why I figured online classes would be the easiest, and there seems to be a lot of Blinn classes that transfer.</p>
<p>May be I am speaking out of line since I don’t much about U-Ten. My apology if that is the case. 2 yrs ago, TAMU did not have clear cut where TAMU certain courses = UC/Cal State Courses (or for any U). It all depend on the classes. Like S2 take differentiate equation and something else can’t quite remember anymore in UCI and it was perfectly OK. He had to send the TAMU Syllabus and the CC-CA + UCI syllabus detail to the adviser. The adviser say no to 1 for CC. Partial OK for other one in CC. So, he end taking both in UCI instead. It was quite a bit of research on your part and you have to do early enough to get it approve prior your state U registration.</p>