@Ptexmom my older daughter attended University of Arkansas and was in Walton School of Business. She loved every minute and it was definitely her place. She stayed in Arkansas after graduation because she loved it there so much. She’s in the process of moving to Little Rock now for a new job. It’s a great school and offers a lot of tuition breaks to TX residents which make it much more affordable!!
I’m new to the forum and my son is still waiting on an answer. My question may have already been answered somewhere here. Son’s first major choice was Mays. Second choice is now actually what he prefers which is Agecon. Does it do him any good to change at this point? If he changes, does it move him to the back of the line? Thanks for the help and sorry about being late to the game.
With many of her friends at school getting TEAM yesterday, and her AIS still under review, D#2 cried. Mom is on the phone with her now. . . . trying to be strong. Long story short, she’s out - made a decision to take the OOS scholarship money and go that route. I have to say, as my wife so delicately put it, “what a debacle”.
My theory is that A&M tried to expand too big and go too fast without the appropriate level of “management horsepower” to guide the "ship’ through this expansion. Admissions / Administration, whoever or wherever some of these problems exist today, just don’t know how to define and implement good working systems and processes. (this is just my opinion) I feel like my family suffered because of this unbridled growth, and lack of Management’s “look” ahead to anticipate the need for the right resources to handle the tsunami (BTW, this is a management issue).
I have heretofore bled maroon, and I’m sure that after some of the “hurt” diminishes (time heals wounds), I may bleed maroon again. I lived there 7 years (a few years in a dorm), received graduate and undergraduate degrees from there, I worked at A&M myself - teaching. And D#1 graduates from A&M in May (it was a wonderful experience for D#1). With that said, right now I will no longer recommend the school to people I know - just can’t in my heart do it. This process is not working, and if this “procedural area of management” isn’t working at A&M, there are others, undoubtedly.
I really like what @3TXkids said above, and @3TXkids I think is spot on. I’ve been feeling this alot myself over the past four years going to campus while D#1 is there - A&M is not the school I attended and fell in love with all those years ago. That’s not good or bad, it just means that “my A&M” is gone . . . it is not the A&M my friends and I remember. And like @3TXkids said, to me it no longer “feels” like the tight knit, supportive place that many of us enjoyed and fondly remember.
The silver lining is this. Now that I really see A&M through these new “optics” (and suffered, what was for our family, a “debacle” of an experience), I’m seeing that TAMU is no longer the “panacea that we wish it to be” (to again quote my friend @3TXkids ).
So D#2 will not be following in my footsteps as an Ag, nor the footsteps of her sister, cousin and Aunt, and she will till new ground at a smaller school (20,000 - 30,000 students instead of 65,000). I think she’ll probably do better in classes smaller than the 300+ kids in many freshman classes at A&M.
I sound like soured milk, and we are, but that’s OK, we will rebound for sure. Congratulations to all those future Aggies, good luck and if you don’t know them yet, learn those yells!
@Ptexmom My son is the exact same. He only applied to TAMU for a Texas option since we live relatively close to College Station. We’ll be at the reception in March! I think he’s leaning more and more that way. Honestly, my husband can work from anywhere and we loved the town so much we’ve considered moving. It’s so beautiful. Good luck to your daughter!
@Mommydoodle Everyone who has a student there says they love it.
@Gigem86
Q1
ACT 32
Academic admit
Offered 3 pathways. Took blinn
@Thelma2 @AggieMomhelp Thank you both! The wait was a little more bearable with your wealth of information and being able to hear from others in the same boat. While my daughter was lucky and thankful to get a Blinn Team offer yesterday, it was comforting when I shared with her all the other amazing students I was reading about that were having to wait it out too. She even made the decision ahead of time that she would attend Blinn if not given the TEAM opportunity, in hopes of transferring to A&M from there.
Stats I left off that might be helpful:
She was 131/666
SAT -1260 (620 R/W) (640 Math)
ACT - 26 (English 27, Math 27, Science 22, Reading 26)
Like many, I’ve been keeping up with all of the posts for the past month or so. Thank you for all of the helpful information! My son applied July 1st and is still waiting to hear something. We’re hoping that there will be another wave of Blinn Team offers.
Here are his stats:
Date Applied: July 1
Major Applied: Mays, Econ
Rank: 26%
GPA: 3.98
SAT/ACT with Sub Scores: 1330; R: 640 M: 690
EC’s/AP’s, Awards, Clubs: NHS, 4 years football, 3 years track, All-State & All-
District Academic award recipient- football, 130+ volunteer hours, 15 hours AP/dual credits
Congrats to all who received offers yesterday! 
@treytexag: Good luck to your daughter. I just hope that she didn’t give up on TAMU too soon. As long as she is still in review, there is still hope. I know that it is hard not to take the long waiting period as “personal”, but it is just part of the process. And even if she starts OOS, she can ALWAYS come back to CStat. Lots of people try other places and then decide that they want to be Aggies. I wish her all good luck and that she is very happy wherever she attends. Life has a way of working out for the best, and usually, life is what you make it.
I just want to address the topic of “TAMU is not the TAMU of our years”. Well, nothing is exactly like it was in the past. This is the present, that was the past. Yes, the University is huge, with 65,000 + students, but can you imagine what the admissions process would be if they were trying to limit the number of admitted students to whatever number it was when you were a Freshman? How many more thousands of disappointed families would there be in that case? And how would they limit the enrollment?
My older Aggie daughter was HS Class of 2012. At her NSC, they said they had ~32,000+ applications and enrolled a little over 8,000 students for Fall 2012. My younger Aggie daughter, HS 2017 was one of 42,000+ applications with enrollment of ~11,000+ students, she received Blinn-TEAM offer (along with ~2,400 others, but only 1,050 ish enrolled in Blinn-TEAM for Fall 2017).
That is an application increase of about 10,000 in the span of 5 years, and an enrollment increase of between 3,000-4,000 in 5 years. The population of Texas increases every year as does the number of students graduating from HS. The applications will keep on increasing and TAMU is doing the best that it can to accommodate all of the highly qualified applicants, but it isn’t their fault that the State of Texas is huge. And that probably a higher percentage of students expect to go to college now than expected to go in the past. I don’t think it was just a decision to expand that was mishandled, but simply a process of trying to predict future enrollment trends, accommodate State of TX rules and juggle everything as best as possible at any given moment.
Neither my husband or I are Aggies, I am a graduate of one of the top tier schools in another state, (and I am not originally from TX either). My husband went to a local commuter school in TX and then on to a graduate degree in another TX city. But as we have navigated the becoming Aggies process with our daughters, we have been so impressed with TAMU. CStat is THE friendliest place I have ever been! Yes, it is a bigger place than it was even 5-10 years ago, but no matter where we have gone in CStat or Bryan, EVERYONE has been helpful, kind and friendly. And Aggies are still recognized across the country for their school spirit. My older daughter married into a multi-generational Aggie family and the Aggie values are the same as they were “back in the day” when her in-laws were undergrads. Yes, there have been changes, some necessary for the changing times and I think that it is amazing that such a huge University has retained any values from the past. Most Universities world wide are different than they were in the past, because, if you think about it, evolution is a necessary process to avoid extinction.
Yes, it can be easy to “get lost” in the huge numbers of students on any campus, so my suggestion is that everyone find a small group to belong to and where they will find like minded friends. For my daughters, it was going Greek. They both found wonderful smart, funny, kind Aggie friends in their Sororities and also have non Greek friends. Yes, it can be difficult and yes, it is a competition to join almost any group, but there is always the option to start a new group as response to the limited number of seats available elsewhere. The Aggies of today may be parts of various small groups, but they are ALL Aggies and the Aggie traditions are strong, the unity of a stadium full of Aggies is phenomenal. I love seeing it on TV but I love it even more when we get to experience it while attending the games. It is amazing. It is Aggie life.
I hope that your daughter thrives wherever she settles. Keep us posted on her journey. All info is valued as it helps the families going through the process next year and future years.
@Thelma2 I’m glad to hear that. He will be at McCoy, too, in Finance. I think he feels a little slighted with having to “settle” with Texas State, but I have really tried to discourage him from looking at it like that. Although he was accepted into some great private/OOS schools, his scores weren’t high enough to earn much merit aid. He is making a sound decision not to take on high debt; we agreed to pay in state tuition, so the he would be responsible for paying the difference if he went private or OOS. TxSt is a great school and I hope they take advantage of their pool of highly qualified students that didn’t quite make the big two.
I just got the option to accept my offer of Blinn TEAM admission. Go check your AIS if you haven’t already!
She applied in mid Oct under Review
Applied to Architecture - Landscape Architect and Environmental Design- not sure which was 1st vs 2nd choice
Her ACT was 28 -( Eng 29, Math 29, Reading 28, Science 28, STEM 29)
SAT 1330 - R/W 700 Math 630
Lots of great EC’s, Volunteer hours , spent a summer abroad, work experience, and nice LOR’s,
Hasn’t heard anything -
@Thelma2
She applied to both college station and Galveston. She applied to oceanography at College station and marine biology at Galveston! She applied late October, with 380 volunteer hours, mu alpha theta, student council, nhs, all a honor roll, drill team officer ( military officer, social officer ) , national champion winner for 3 straight years. She has a high rank of 114/1003 ( 11.7%) but her sat is lower with a 1180. With the way things are going most of her friends got in last year with being top 15% and scores of 1200s. This year seems a little different. If not accepted she is going to go to the Galveston location for a year to see if she likes it and if she wants to transfer after a year she will do that. We also heard that they look at ethnicity because they have to have certain percentages. If anything helps she is also Native American.
I forgot to add on my son’s stats that he has worked for a custom home builder every summer in an apprentice position in his field of study…Construction Science.
I know many of you who got accepted today are getting kicked off the MyHousing portal and are unable to log in. I called housing a few minutes ago and they said that we have to wait until monday to apply for housing because our admission hasn’t processed yet. Hang in there guys
thank you
Wondering if anyone has heard this year as an Econ major yet? I don’t think I have seen any, or may have missed it. Also, liberal arts and sciences majors? I feel like there haven’t been too many that have heard anything? Am I mistaken?
I have seen a couple of Visualization posts but none for Landscape architecture - anyone been accepted under review for LA?
@calitex Hey beauty chief shah back again. I know a couple of weeks ago someone reported their daughter got in for Econ and was 38%. I’m 12% and can’t seem to get in (still waiting). There’s lots of Econ people on here that applied as second choice and seems besides thag one girl we’re all still waiting. Things don’t seem really fair. We got people with really good stats not getting in and we have people sending their test scores mid January and getting automatic acceptance which is not fair since all materials were due early December. Just like most things, college acceptances seem to be rigged too. Well maybe not rigged but definitely unfair. Let’s see how many people come and tell me I’m wrong. Anywho good luck. Chief Shah
Question, do you have to accept an admission offer before you can apply for housing?
@Thelma2 and @AggieMomhelp , thank you for all of your valuable information. I’ve gone back through previous posts because I know one or both of you had written posts about the many other ways to get to Aggieland and I can only seem to find pieces of info. I did find the post #1834 regarding the Pathway Transfer Option and I was confused if that was better than PSA? It seems both guarantee admission as long as you meet requirements. My daughter’s 1st choice major is Animal Science and I can’t seem to find it listed as an option under the PSA schools. Also, would PTA or PSA be better options than attending a different Texas College/University and then trying to transfer or maybe than going to TAMUG as marine biology and then transfer to Animal Science at TAMUG or, is it a better chance to reapply as a Freshman Spring Semester? I know there are so many ways to get there but I really don’t think we can go through this painful process again so looking for path of least resistance if she really wants TAMU.