I will admit the the whole process and “extended” wait time to hear back from A&M has dampened our Aggie spirit a bit. I’m an Aggie, my sister and niece are Ags, and my daughter graduates in May from A&M, so our family definitely bleeds maroon. With that said, my wife and I have become VERY disappointed that our daughter (#2) still hasn’t heard back about any offers of admission from A&M C/Stat. It has been very dissheartening indeed. Very likely #2 will become a Sooner or Razorback . . . . .
BTW: She hails from a very competitive non-ranking reporting Public School in Texas. A&M ranked her 1Q, she’s a 4 Year Varsity Letterman (pitcher), many, many hours working with Special Ed kids and economically disadvantaged kids, high GPA, average ACT (27 composite non-super-scored), outstanding essay, and has worked part time at a local indoor hitting range 3 years. Her college readiness (we know from #1’s experience now at A&M) is very high. #2’s performance at A&M would be just as her sisters was (3.5+ graduating GPA from C/Stat, multi-year officer in Sorority, works in the MSC, etc.) or better. But we lament the fact that the 10% rule, which ensures a diverse populous at C/Stat, will have students not as college ready, who will not be as successful as #2 would be, getting admission to A&M, while we wait. Seriously disenchanted with the process, the lack of feeling wanted, the wait, the lack of communication, and all the rest.
TAMU released they had 2000 spots for full admit students remaining about 2 weeks ago - with that being said there is probably around 1000 ish full admit spots left now - plus around 1400 students are offered blinn team and 400 offered gateway each year - all this combined there is probably about 2000 spots left for full admit, blinn and gateway combined.
On the other hand there is about 10,000+ spots for PSA so if you don’t fit in the 2000 you will most likely be placed into the PSA category. (Keep in mind this is my own math so there is no guarantee numbers are exactly correct).
@treytexag You may be tired of the wait since she applied so long ago but decisions are on track from past years.
How is the process and wait time extended? Extended from what? The website even publishes a March decision date. We make decisions throughout the year. All decisions for spring will be posted by December and fall by late March at HOWDY via the Applicant tab. http://admissions.tamu.edu/freshman/admitted Notification of Decisions
With a current student at A&M, surely you are aware that review applicants as a majority, do not hear back until February-March.
The past three cycles, for class 2020, 2021, and 2022, the last full admits were admitted in end of January into February and then the pathway decisions followed. In February.
Do you think that I should switch my major from engineering to some other random non engineering major. At this point based on my stats and the thread, I already know that Im not going to get full admission. Do you think if I do this I have a better chance of getting into blinn team (since they accept more admits to blinn team than blinn bryan academy historically speaking) than for blinn engineering academy as Im sort of unsure about my major anyway.
@sma1234 I wouldn’t touch your major at this point. Too close to the end. You’ll be admitted to TAMU first then they’ll review you for engineering. Changing now may not even be an option. Let the reviewers do their thing and if you get PSA and want to see if changing majors could have changed that, then call. OR you can call admissions now and ask that question, but I guarantee they will say, your major is irrelevant.
@maw1970 - I see where you are going with the numbers - but what you have do not appear to jive with what I have seen from dars and admission presentations. I think you have mixed up (at least for TEAM) the admit and enrollment numbers. I kinda pass my daughter’s wait time crunching numbers.
I posted this back in October - and I broke out what happened once you were a review candidate.
This is from a 2018 slide presented by the office of admissions. Freshman class 22 by the numbers. 41,760 total applicants.
Admits:
26.7% - Top 10% 11,159
11.1% - Academic 4,646
9.9% - Review full 4,115
9.1% - Review Alternative 3,813 (TEAM and Gateway - less than 800 were gateway)
27.6% -PSA 11,518
15.6% - Denied 6,509 (when I went with my daughter to a regional TAMU application workshop meeting - they said the majority of the denials were incomplete or late applications)
So I looked at further - to see the distribution of the Holistic Review applicants - I removed the Top 10, Academic, and Denials/incomplete. That left 19,446 of what I would term competitive holistic review applications.
59.2% - PSA
21.1% - Review full
19.6% - Review alternative
Question: I was wondering what percentage of people with high SAT scores get put in PSA? Such as a 1360. Do they get offered gateway more often? I was wondering who is offered gateway as it is such a small program is it random or based on other things? Apologies if this question has been answered before… Thanks for all the help everyone, yall are the best!!!
I should have never went to a tough, competitive ranking school in the first place due to the fact A&M does not even acknowledge that fact and just care what quartile you are in. I would then have had a better chance I guess. Anyways Im feeling very miserable about my chances and just cant wait for this whole process to be over :-<
@sma1234 I feel the same way sometimes, I also attend a very competitive high school. But at the end of the day, you’re very lucky that you get to attend a competitive school that will prepare you for college/life after college. Hang in there
@bellasea - just looking over previous threads (so that is just what people are reporting - we have no idea how accurate it is) it looks like extreme scores are more likely to get Gateway. High rank/low test or lower second quarter rank/higher test scores. But people have also mentioned that life challenges talked about in essays may be a factor too. Like an explanation of how you overcame a challenge. But once again - that is just chatter of the boards. Not idea if it is true.
@rdhdstpchld If you transfer into A&M as an academic sophomore, you start as a freshman (fish) in the Corps of Cadets. While most freshman are considered fish for the entire year, the academic sophomore can “frog up” to sophomore status in the Spring semester. If you choose to do a full four years at TAMU after transferring in, you may decide to stay with your fish class because that’s where your bonds and friendships will be. If you frog up, then you only are in the Corps three years, with that first your being 1/2 freshman and 1/2 sophomore. 2nd year junior. 3rd year senior.
@sma1234 Changing majors will not make any difference at this point because if you are offered one of the other pathways via engineering and do not want to do engineering academy, you can switch to Blinn Team. It is all in the links about Blinn Academy that have been posted.
hey! i went to aggieland saturday to the public health seminar because i wanna do that major too but they said they’re already full they accepted 250 freshmen. the advisor said they might send a few more but our best bet is getting our second choice major or blinn team
