Is it possible Engineering Admissions made a mistake?

ColoFatherOf3
Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:56:01 +0000

Thanks for all the great responses folks, much appreciated. We made 2 phone calls the day the rejection email arrived. We first called the Texas A&M recruiter we talked with at a College Fair in Denver. This person all but assured my DD that with her stats she would get enough scholarships to get an OOS tuition waiver. When we called this person, she basically said that all decisions are final and there are no appeals.

We then called the office of student affairs (or something like that). My wife made the calls, so I don’t have first hand knowledge. She said a student answered this call and my wife explained what we thought was our “high stats” daughter was denied admission to COE and we couldn’t understand why. He simply said he would look into it. That was that. We did nothing further and after many tears, had started to think about what might be her 2nd choice school.

Then at 5am this morning, DD said as she was heading out the door for swim practice that TAMU had sent her an acceptance email:

“It is our pleasure to inform you of your acceptance to the College of Engineering. Your major has been changed and is viewable on the Applicant Information System (AIS)”

I can only assume that the student who said he would “look into it”, looked into it and found a data entry error of some type? Who knows? I doubt we’ll ever know.

Our next concern is whether this mishap caused her to not be properly considered for scholarships. Without the OOS tuition waiver, she likely will not attend as she really needs the waiver to make it financially reasonable. It least now the decision is in her hands.