@nervoustamumommy
@AggieMomhelp @MomHopesNxtGenAg @AggieMomAgain @trinley @pbleigh @chercheur @GManmom123 and I am sorry If I forgot someone, all have students at A&M and all of us have been where you are going through this process. There were so many helpful people on the forum when I joined in October 2015. I had no intentions of staying when I first joined and I had so much guidance though NSC and move in that before I knew it, we were in another admissions cycle, and it just grew from there.These people give tirelessly of themselves and spend many hours on the forums to help others navigate this process from every single angle.
It is my sincerest with that you are not suggesting or inferring that any of the above folks I tagged or myself, are giving out misinformation on this forum. If this not be the case, then you have case aspersions on us all that need to be backed up that the information we have shared is indeed incorrect.
I am not an expert. I do not know it all nor have I ever claimed or aspired to. In fact, I have posted many, many times my qualifications, which are few, and readily admit my limitations but darn it if I won’t try to find someone the answer or put them in touch with someone who can. I am a parent with a child at A&M. But I have traveled the road you are on currently and I have walked along with hundreds in their journey’s in subsequent cycles It is my way of giving back to those coming after me, as others did FOR me. I have three in college at three different universities and A&M is by far the most competitive and complex in everything.
I try to be very deliberate with my words. When I post a link to information for people, I am not googling it and throwing it out there and saying "here’. I have actually read all of these sites, many, many times, when looking up an answer for someone so that I can give them the most accurate answer I can. Many times, I will actually copy and paste the exact text from the websites to paste here and provide the link and where to find it on the link. I try to be so meticulous in what my words and be very explicit so that nothing more can be read into or more taken from them except exactly what they mean but that has not stopped them from being so.
Not only do I help on the A&M forum. I read a lot on the rest of CC, where there are admissions officers who post on topics and people with way more experience than I, and I learn from them. I also belong to 2 closed an Aggie parent groups, one with over 10K members and the major specific group over 1K, where no one is anonymous. Hundreds of those members have other kids going through the admissions cycle in any given cycle. Others here watch the reddit forums where current students participate a lot with applicants, TexAgs has an official Admissions Officer that will answer questions and posts information. Some of us watch them all. yes, I do make notes and keep notes so that I have fast, easy access to links and if I need to refresh myself with an answer, I have it at my fingertips.
Something else you should know is that of every single one of us on here.trying to help during admission cycles have never met one another. We are strangers to each other, helping strangers and none of them would bat an eye to halt misinformation as soon as it were spotted, so that it did not take on a life of its own.
As to who is admitted though holistic review, that can never be predicted. While rank and test scores play a big roll, there are always other things at play. While A&M is known to be stingy with merit aid to all but the highest achieving kids, did you know that A&M has large programs for outreach to under-served areas of Texas, to first generation college applicants, and economic hardships applicants? These applicants will be the ones you see getting full offers of admissions that people bemoan because their students scores were SO much better and their high school SO much more competitive.
The Century Scholars Program and Scholarship is a partnership between Texas A&M University and 110 under-represented Texas high schools to enroll and retain top students from each school. Recipients must be a graduate of a Century Scholar school. Not only is it a scholarship, it is an ongoing program during their tenure at A&M.
900 Century Scholars are awarded each year.
Did you know The Academic Achievement Scholarships target academic achievement that was achievement under difficult circumstances?
Did you know The Foundation of Excellence Award is open to entering freshmen, currently-enrolled students at TAMU-College Station, and transfer students from under-represented groups, including minorities and students from economically or educationally disadvantaged backgrounds with demonstrated financial need.
Did you know that A&M ranks #6 in the nation for the number of enrolled National Merit Scholars?
I would supply the links to all of this information but they are in my notes, so I’ll leave it to you to spend your time researching it.
