OOS - hard to fit in?

Beaudreau
Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:57:56 +0000

@nogddg - My son is an engineering junior from Arizona. Fitting in will depend more on your son than on TAMU. My son tends to be introverted and is not interested at all in sports. But he has made an effort to join clubs and study groups. He now has some very good Texas friend, so it has worked out for him.

Overall, the students are very friendly and certainly not snobs, so that is a real plus. But coming to TAMU will be a bit of a culture shock. It’s certainly manageable as long as your son keeps an open mind and does not act like a snob himself. And thousands of freshman will be from Houston, Dallas, or San Antonio and their suburbs. They are much more “urban” than your stereotypical Texan who grew up on a ranch. And even just 3% of 10,000 freshmen means that there will be 300 or 400 OOS freshmen also looking for friends.

And it is a great engineering school!