I'm not exactly sure how I didn't get in.. Confused/Rant

Viper999
Thu, 05 Sep 2013 20:12:50 +0000

I applied to Texas A&M before the early action deadline and here is what my stats are (if you could call them that).
SAT:1740
ACT:28
Top 11% 7/64 (One person away from top 10% ;( )
GPA:4.0 (technically a 3.977 I think I can round it up though)
40 Dual-Credit College Hours
A few hundred hours of community service through NHS.
Also played baseball for three years our team advanced to state and got second my junior year.
Played a year and a half of tennis freshman-sophomore year.
Went on a few mission trips through my church.

Personally, I think the top 10% rule is total garbage because it is a disadvantage to small schools, especially small competitive high schools like mine. Probably half of the students walking around here have a 3.1-3.3 GPA but still managed to squeak into the bottom half of the top 10 percent of there 900 student graduating class. It just kills me to walk by a group of ditzy girls, or a group of fraternity guys that are talking about alcohol that are A&M students because of how the top 10 percent rule works for larger high schools…
But on a more serious note… Why do you think I was blinn teamed? I’ve read of people on here with lesser stats and not top 10% or academic admit that got in…??