Question about admissions offices...

drusba
Sun, 28 Jun 2015 11:20:35 +0000

Texas A&M does not consider demonstrated interest in the university as a factor in determining admission. Large number of applicants are admitted automatically under top 10% class rank rule. The next group, also automatic admits, are those in top quarter class rank, with combined SAT math and reading score of 1300 or more or ACT of 30 or more. If you are not in either of those groups, then grades, difficulty of courses taken and test scores are the most important factors followed by ECs and essays. Demonstrated interest is not a factor considered.

Also, what you are actually being told by the representative of the admissions office you are talking to is that the admissions office does not make the decisions to admit. If you are not in the automatic admit groups, the decision to admit will be made by committees within the various colleges of the university and the departments within those colleges that have the particular major for which you apply. To accomplish what you are attempting, you would have to contact the particular college or department that has your requested major and then actually find someone on the committee that will be making admission decisions, and usually they will not tell who those particular people are if you call and ask.