@noah4151 I just checked as of 8:47 CST still in review and only 3 tabs 
@AggieMomhelp I keep seeing the term (Full which I assume is full admission) but what is Team and Gateway?
@IT22379 team is blinn team, where you are enrolled in blinn and tamu, you are a full aggie. once you take the required hours at blinn you can transfer fulling into tamu. Gateway is a 5 week summer program where you live on campus, take four classes, and if you hold a 2.0 ( i know super easy) you will be fully enrolled in the fall
TEAM-
http://tap.tamu.edu/Programs/TEAM
Gateway-
http://tap.tamu.edu/Programs/Gateway
@noah4151 Thanks Noah good to know.
Can someone tell me what the other three tabs are going to say?
@cmringvelski Home/Applicant/MyRecord/MyFinances/StudentLife/Research/MyHowdy
Just a got accepted to Texas State but I’m still holding out to see if tamu will offer me anything. Does anyone know if it’s easier to just take the psa route instead of transferring after a year from a different school?
This post is for all the students that in the next month will be offered the “soft denial” or PSA to TAMU college station. There have been many articles written about the IMPERFECT TOP 10% RULE…and my point of this post is to not be fooled by the “60%” admissions rate to TAMU…
I have on hand numbers from a few years ago when TAMU received 35,667 applications (you may have seen the pie chart online)…Just a little fun fact…Class of 2022 received 41,757 applications…So although my numbers are a bit outdated…it will suffice to look at the acceptance rate for top 10%, academic admit/ SAT 1360 or the dreaded “Review Admit” pool.
Over half of the freshman class accepted will be the golden TOP 10% rule…That’s 10,830 That’s about HALF of the freshman class
Next you have 3446 that make the 1360 SAT cut off for the Academic admits (Impressive!!!)
(Side note freshman average SAT at college station is around 1200)
ACCEPTANCE rate for Top 10% plus Academic Admit is around 40%
10,830 + 3446/ 35,667= 40% acceptance rate
You finally add the Review admits at 2,800 students…These kids are really on an uphill climb
2,800/ 35,667 total applicants…Their acceptance rate is around 7% SEVEN PERCENT…let that sink in
Last year TAMU offered
Gateway to 450
BLINN 1200
Mc Allen 320
TEAB 600
Galveston 1200
and lastly PSA 11,500
Let’s quickly look at TEAB…the engineering pathway at Bryan/ College Station
I have been reading on college confidential…and have no reason to believe that anyone on here is lying about their stats…
But here is a few examples:
Student 1
Auto Admit top 10%
SAT 1170
Full admission to Engineering College Station
Student 2
Auto Admit top 8%
SAT 1250
Full admission to Engineering College Station
Student 3
Academic Admit
SAT 1410
Offered TEAB or engineering at Blinn/ Bryan
Student 4
Review Admit Top 25% (1Q)
SAT 1310
Offered TEAB
Student 5
Review Admit
GPA 3.9
SAT 1260
Offered Engineering at Galveston
Student 6 (impressive!!!)
Review Admit Top 23%
GPA 4.2
SAT 1420 (missed acadmic admit by 10 points/ Math 780/ English 640)
Offered TEAB
It seems to me that some of the TAMU Gateway type offers for engineering/ TEAB and Galveston
are being offered to awesome students with higher GPAs and test scores SIMPLY BECAUSE they missed the TOP 10% rule or SAT/ Academic cut off
The bottom line is that TAMU applications will continue to rise…in a short period of time they have gone from 35,667 to almost 42,000 applications…
I wouldn’t be surprised if TAMU follows suit and goes with UT and starts limiting Top 10% to Top 6-7%…???
Years ago Princeton did a hard look at UT and top 10% rule and they found
“WITHOUT CHANGE, ONLY THE TOP 10% NEED APPLY”…
“Without modification, the Top 10% students will overwhelm the freshman class. In addition, a student’s record of leadership, awards, community service, extracurricular activities - those experiences that make a well rounded individual- are RAPIDLY becoming IRRELEVANT to the admissions process. Increasingly, high school seniors who wish to attend UT (you could insert TAMU CS) are discovering that the only criterion, HIGH SCHOOL CLASS RANK, will play a significant role in the admissions process”
Lastly, for the those AWESOME KIDS that didn’t make Top 10% Auto Admit…Remember you maybe at a very competitive school…perfect grades and still you may only be top Quarter…Don’t discount your achievement
This Top 10% rule doesn’t define you as a student
My husband, Aggie class of 1990…I believe had a 3.0 at St. Mark’s in Dallas…a tough competitive school environment…He was categorically the “dumb one” of his group with classmates attending Yale, Harvard and Stanford…He finished TAMU with a history and Spanish major…ended up going on to Medical School at Texas Tech and finished his Anesthesia residency at University of Michigan…He is currently the Chief Anesthesiologist at our local hospital…He is one SMART GUY and very successful!
In today’s world…HE WOULDN’T EVEN BE ACCEPTED TO TAMU CS…
Side note: His Dad was in the Corps and graduated in 58’
For those kids that are not great standardized test takers…Couldn’t make a 1360 combined score to be an academic admit…Who cares…the SAT/ ACT doesn’t define you in anyway…Back in the 1980’s I barely made an 1100
I finished my nursing degree at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN and went on to complete my Master’s degree at U of D in Detroit…I am a CRNA…nurse anesthetist and that’s a super competitive field
For the REVIEW applicants that are offered PSA…or a Gateway program…You maybe the brightest and the best TEXAS has to offer…the IMPERFECT TOP 10% rule, SAT Academic Cut off 1360/ Math 620 + RW 660 or the fact that you’re in a NON RANKING SCHOOL or highly competitive high school senior class…? Has placed you in a TOUGH TOUGH admissions category…remember historically only 2,800/ 17000+ review applicants are accepted…that’s 16%…or 2,800/ 35,667 (total applications)…there’s only 7% of you that were even offered admissions to the CS campus! You may have had better luck applying to an Ivy League school?
As for my son…although he hasn’t heard back from TAMU…he’s a review admit at a small private non ranking school…
GPA 101
Tamu ranked him Top Q
SAT 1280
NHS
Awesome recommendations from former Aggies
Loads of EC’s community service hours and varsity athlete x 3 sports
I doubt TAMU will offer him anything more than PSA…the soft denial…
That’s okay…it’s a number game in TEXAS these days…Sadly, he will not carry on the family Aggie Torch
(Every year, there are a handful from our non ranking school that move to the public school for their senior year…They all make the top 10% and all get into UT or TAMU…If TAMU or UT is your dream school…you must be willing to play the Top 10% Game)
Hopefully, this doesn’t sound like sour grapes in any way…It was NOT intended that way…
It’s just a glimpse into what our children are up against and truthfully what Admissions at TAMU is up against in creating the TAMU Class of 2023…Eventually, somethings gotta give?
Appreciate your numbers. Sadly, kids from lower ranked schools who are auto admit, are going to be less prepared for the rigor as opposed to a kid in the 2Q in a highly competitive school around Houston or Dallas or a difficult non ranking private school. My kid has ACT 30/SAT 1270 but is in the 26th% (rank 160/606) with Sports/volunteer work etc…Will not likely get an offer. Luckily we have full admission to two out-of-state school business programs but wanted a Texas option. It is sad that highly qualified, well deserving kids will get passed over due to the 10% rule.
I will apologize up front if this has already been asked but how does PSA figure in with the cadet corps? When you tx over to TAMU are you a freshman or a sophomore; would you have to start as a 100 or a 200 cadet?
@maw1970 I understand your concern regarding the top 10% rule. I also see what is most likely my student in your list and he is a Top 10% kid. I personally had a lot of concern as we were awaiting a decision from the College Of Engineering about the standardized tests being weighed so heavily. We all have our cross to bear I guess and I agree that none of these criteria in and of themselves should be the deciding factor.
Standardized testing nor Top 10% are total indicators of college success in my mind! You are talking to the Co-Valedictorian of my BSN program at a well respected university who probably scored around 1200 on my SAT. My husband, who is an engineer from another university, did not go in with super high credentials but worked his tail off and makes six figures now. It is all about the effort you are willing to put in.
I understand your situation as I will be in this boat with a review candidate in 2 years so the Top 10% will be a huge issue for us then as my second child is barely top 30%. I think some of the other pertinent information is missing regarding my current student and I really believe it was the whole BIG picture that got him in to the College of Engineering and not just the 10% rule. Otherwise, I feel like we would have known something much sooner!
I sincerely wish luck to all of those still waiting! It is BRUTAL for sure!
A representative from A&M just came and talked to a small group of kids from my high school. He said that if you have not received an admission decision by now, there is probably a very good chance you’ll get offered PSA. I know this isn’t the news we wanted to hear, but just thought I should share. He also said that all admission decisions should be coming out in the next couple of days. Good luck to everybody, I know this waiting is rough.
A representative talked to the kids at my sons school and said that all review candidates should have a decision by February 9th, and that didn’t happen. As much as we want answers, the best thing to do is wait. Good things take time!
@Blaketflip is that for Engineering or all majors? We have not seen many in the review category for non-engineering get any kind of offer (Full, BT or Gateway). Seems Engineering is treated as a whole separate category.
@4Hmom123 When did they come by and let you know that?
@aggiemom96
I only wrote my post to encourage the super bright/ well qualified kids that have worked their tails off…that the college acceptance game doesn’t define you
Certainly your son will be an awesome addition to TAMU Engineering!!! No doubt about it…they are lucky to have him
The top 10% rule although imperfect is NOT going away…it can be tough to swallow
But in the end
You need to Bloom where you’re planted!
@AggieDreamin Although he didn’t say specifically, I believe he meant all decisions period.
@Blaketflip My mom worked in PR for years and she thinks that it’s just a tactic. If people prepare to receive PSA but get full admission, people will not complain. It’s a “prepare for the worst, hope for the best” tactic… these reps have to say something.
@AndyyBuii they told them that on 1/29/18
I agree @tamu23plz there are a lot of students at my school who aren’t in the top 25 percent and haven’t heard back. Plus they have high SAT scores (1350+) and good GPAs and solid ECs. I wouldn’t stress cause they might be saying PSA so that’s y’all can just prepare for the worst if it were to happen. Don’t stress y’all. I believe admissions will come this week so we will all know soon!