If you get admitted to Texas A&M, check whether you are in the civil engineering major or are admitted to general engineering. Students in general engineering must go through another competitive admission process, and may not necessarily get their first choice major (except that those with 3.5 college GPA get automatic admission). See https://engineering.tamu.edu/academics/entry-to-a-major/index.html . Unfortunately, they no longer post detailed statistics that can help determine how competitive each major is.