@lulu9002 Actually housing selection has not opened up yet.
@texag92 ?I just got off the phone with admissions in cstat and they said they are still telling them they should be done by 3/1.
Does any PSA participating schools have Psychology major? Thanks
Did they say what kind of offers where left?
@avvi no psychology for PSA, but they do participate in PTA.
https://admissions.tamu.edu/admissions-staging/media/Main/pdfs-pta/LA-psychology-BS.pdf
@avvi . Take a look at this link http://admissions.tamu.edu/PSA
Here it lists all the participating system schools. Available majors/minors will be listed on each schoolâs website.
My son was offered PSA last year. When you click to accept it will show you which universities you were offered. My son had the choice of all of them except Galveston. He also had already been accepted to Tarleton. It will ask you to select which schools in which you are interested. Within a week we received acceptance letters and emails. He ended up accepting his Texas Tech offer and loved it. I have another son at Tarleton who is a music major. The town is small but I love the school. They are opening a new Enginering building, the dorms have top notch options and the staff and faculty are great. Good luck on hopefully still receiving a full offer, but if you do get PSAthat first year goes by so fast.
@avvi . Also this link for PTA degree specific courses/work required
http://admissions.tamu.edu/PTA
I called today too just to see. I was told middle of March and all offers still available. She took my daughters UNI and looked it up which I can do but I thought maybe they had some special thing. Basically I learned that the people answering the phone just really dont know.
@TXDad56 I totally agree that the 10% rule is a bad system and penalizes lots of very qualified applicants. I routinely see posts all over other CC forums with claims of a 3.5 GPA, 1150 SAT and âtop 10%â of class. This would put you in the bottom 50% of a lot of schools and shows the 10% rule to be fundamentally flawed.
But for a little perspective (and because I"m in the need of my own little pity partyâŠ). TAMUâs system is significantly better than what California does. Currently CA requires the UC system to guarantee admission to the top 12.5% of CA High school students. What this means is you are guaranteed admission to âa UCâ. Basically every student in this top 12.5% is guaranteed to go to UC Merced, a new school opened for the direct purpose of making a place for these 12.5% students. Compare this to Texas where the top 10% is guaranteed admission to the actual school of their choice. Again, neither system is perfect, but Iâd rather be in Texas where the students have some chance of going to TAMU. My children attend a selective Catholic School in Silicon Valley and we have 40-50 kids in a class of 450 with 4.0+ gpa, 1500+ SAT, National Merit Finalists, top 5% being turned down by UCLA. You can be number one in your class, 4.5 gpa, 1600 SAT etc⊠and no guarantee. UCLA had over 130,000 applications this year for 6,000 spots⊠(25-30% of those spots going to out of state students as well!)
Good luck to you student and hopefully an offer will come through.
@avvi, Tarleton State does: https://www.tarleton.edu/degrees/bachelors/bs-psychology/
That is my alma matter. In recent visits, the staff and students are all still super helpful and all want the students to succeed. Itâs a great environmentâŠjust gotta get used to a small town feel if youâre from a bigger city.
@AggieMomhelp Thank you. I would like to learn about this program. Can I PM you on this?
@Texastrue while they have psychology as a major, TAMU psychology doesnât participate in PSA. but yes, a student could go there test the waters and if they want to transfer, they can APPLY to transfer into psyc after meeting the requirements.
If you have great ECâs and have been busy in high school plus are in the top 10% why would you waste time on SAT prep or even try to score high if you knew your admission was a sure thing⊠just a thought
@Aghopeful Iâm kinda speechless someone would even ask that. For one thing, many scholarships look specifically at your ACT/SAT scores. Donât even think about trying for any Honors programs, if youâve got a lousy ACT/SAT. Given the craziness of applicants/acceptances this year, I wouldnât bank on anything as a âsure thingâ. Plus, I donât know any Top 10% kids at our high school that would blow off ACT & SATâŠtheyâre the kids that finish strong and thrive on competition, always want to be the best.
@Scotsfi Thank you.
It is really interesting to look at the DARS data and really dig around.
https://dars.tamu.edu/Data-and-Reports/Student/Retention-Graduation
For the last 10 Years the College Station campus has had a more than 90% freshman retention rate. Last year it was 92.4 - So I donât believe there is a massive Top 10 % percent from âlesser schoolsâ churn that is being tossed around - considering that 60% of that class came from the top 10 percent of their graduating classes.
If there is a lower one year retention among students from âlesser schoolsâ socio-economic factors are likely a huge portion of the the equation. The data shows it plain in clear. If you filter the data by household income - the retention goes up with each wealth band. Kids coming from homes with a household income less than $20,000 are most likely group to not make it past their freshman year. But it is still a solid retention rate 80-88% over the last 10-years. Kids from the $80,000+ income homes are most likely to make it to year two. Sure - lack educational depth in HS is probably part of it. But home support, the expense of college, and the need to help support family back home are all factors too.
Kids canât help if they come from a school that is underperforming without resources. Just like my kids canât help that they come from a school where you need to have above a 4.007 to be in the Top 10 percent of there class, where there are many kids with perfect ACT scores and NMS finalists to compete against.
And someone mentioned that the Top 10% has not helped increase minority enrollment at TAMU. According to what I have read it has helped, significantly. Doubling black and hispanic enrollment from 2003-2015.
See article below:
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/06/19/m-student-diversity-increasing-without-affirmative/
How competitive is the international studies major? thanks!
Would yâall say being a minority can help
You get into TAMU ? Or does it make it harder ?
To my knowledge, race isnât a factor. However the 10% rule reaches state wide and thus it gives us a more diverse student population.