@blinnbound I just PM you!
My son received his PSA offer from TAMU. We are interested in him attending Tarleton (as he is too). He has to complete specific course requirements from the approved TAMU program-specific degree plans, 24 transferable hours in residence at a single system school during Spring and Fall, maintain the GPA and submit transfer application by March 2020 deadline. Ok, great got it. However, when I pull up the ācourse requirementsā it says he needs 8 hours of approved math courses and 8 hours of approved science courses. Will he need to take these 16 hours of ārequiredā courses BEFORE he can start the PSA program or can he take them while attending Tarleton?
Received PSA last night. Iām highly disappointed. Iām going to take Arkansasās scholarship and run. Please PM me if you have useful information on uark! 
@CypressMom Are the bold classes on his PSA degree plan 2 four hour math classes and 2 four hour science classes? If so, I think that is what they are referring to. Neither of my sons had to take any classes before starting at the system schools. Those bold print classes are the most important things on that list.
Hi everyone ā I have been following this board since August 2018 and wish to thank everyone for their contributions. All helpful. My DS applied 8/6/18 received UIN# on 8/8/18. Offered PSA just yesterday.
TAMU ranked him ranked in the 3rd Q from a prestigious OOS school that does not rank. He has a 3.55 GPA, a 1320 SAT and a 27 ACT. Four year dual-sport athlete. Had offers to play at football at multiple D2&3/NAIA schools but is choosing to put Fball behind him and focus on a attaining a superior education. Great choice on his part. He wrote what I considered to be stellar essays. He called the admissions counselor and expressed his great interest. He had been given a personal tour of the campus from an exec at TAMU, had former student connections, and as well, met with the dean for his selected program. He wrote thank you notes. He followed up. He did everything right.
The rub is thisā¦just as with all of you, my DS is a fine young man with great heart, and has made proper choices in his life, as his school records, and his essays, and his zeemee videos, and everything else he has done, demonstrate. He is more than a number, or a set of numbers, as are ALL of you on this board waiting and wondering. What TAMU has done wrong here, is tortured and perhaps lost out on a bunch of EXCELLENT young men and women by categorizing their acceptances on a game of stats. Numbers do not always signify the quality of a person or a student. Numbers signify only a part of the equation. My DS selected (months ago), a school that selected HIM for who he is and what he has achieved. They chose HIM. I could not be more proud that he will be attending Baylor, a school that has a human eye in every acceptance decision, and a human heart that backs it up. TAMU algorithms are just that.
All that said, to those of you still waiting, or disappointed that you received PSA, remember that no matter what, you have value and are to be commended for coming this far. Maybe consider a school that gives YOU more consideration. Best of luck to all!
Thank you @2xAggieMom - looks like he may have to take 2 courses this summer
My information for those next year applying!
Date Applied: Nov 13
Major: Animal science/Genetics
ACT: 32
Class Rank/Rank Assigned: 2nd qtr
GPA: 3.65 (all AP/GT or vet tech classes)
Admission Decision: PSA
Admission Decision Date: March 4th
EC/Leadership etc: Team captain on HS team, coaches younger athletes in volunteer position (several 100 hours), volunteers at local vet office. All American through a national sporting association (competitive club team at A&M in this sport).
Missed academic admit by 1 pt on ACT Math section.
Hope this helps those waiting and wondering for next year.
@WaitingAgg My daughter applied this weekend and she got accepted on Monday. Even before receiving transcripts and test scores.
Talked to admissions. Clicking the schools is not binding.
For McAllen, I received the following information when I asked how soon my daughter could transfer from McAllen to CStat. (Should she be offered McAllen)
"She would actually be considered a change of major due to the fact that McAllen students are already considered Texas A&M students. You can find the change of major requirements here: http://tap.tamu.edu/TransitionAcademicPrograms/media/Gallery/CHANGE-OF-MAJOR-Jan(2019)_1.pdf
These are the requirements for a change of major for all of our majors. Ultimately she could get these requirements met fairly quickly with it potentially being possible for her to relocated to College Station within a couple semesters.
When she does the change of major she would select the same major but simply change the location where they are taking the courses, in this case College Station. This would be a process they would work out with their department once they are ready to come to the College Station location"
@AggieDreamin how long did it take for her to receive her myblinn information? And how was she notified of acceptance?
DS will not take PSA. Got accepted to Southwestern, UTD, U of H, LSU and several others with 250K worth of academic scholarship offers so far.
When did you apply: 11/08
When did you get your UIN: 11/10
When did you receive your admission decision: 03/04/19
Admission decision: PSA
Are you an Auto-admit or Academic Admit or Review Admit: Review
Major/College of Choice: Applied Mathematical Science/Actuarial Science
Class Rank: 187/557 (Super competitive HS)
GPA: 3.6 unweighted
SAT: 1370 (680 Reading/690 Math)
ACT: 31 (31 Reading/31 Math)
7 AP Classes
2 Dual Credit Classes
Almost all other HS classes were Pre/AP other than electives or where Pre/AP was not available
EC: Varsity/Select/Travel Sports for 4 years. During 8 month season intense training, practice and/or games 5-7 days per week. Assistant captain of varsity team. At times on 3 teams simultaneously. During off season - summer league, clinics, camps and training. Huge time commitment. Leads teen church band. Plays guitar in teen church band. Other volunteering.
@WaitingAgg She got info to set up her MyBlinn yesterday and it said:
Congratulations - we have received your application for admissions and you are accepted to Blinn College for the Fall 2019 term.
Please complete the following steps to access your myBlinn account: ā¦
@tamu23plz also decided on UARK because of the opportunities in Walton and NRTA scholarship money. But I canāt PM yet bc I read you have to post 15 times to see that option.
Just out of curiosityā¦ but how do you know you received the PSA offer?? Is it supposed to say you did somewhere? Thank you!
@pleasehelpme15 It shows up on your AIS via your Howdy account. Where you used to see Complete and In Review, it will instead have an offer of PSA (donāt know what the verbiage is - Iām sure someone here will chime in ).
@JaceyK ahh okay thank you so much! :)))
My son got PSA last night. He plans to go to Blinn and reapply for Econ after a semester or a year. We contacted an advisor at TAMU and she recommended direct transfer instead of PTA.
Date Applied: July 1
Decision: PSA
Major Applied: Business, Econ
Rank: 26%
GPA: 3.98
SAT/ACT with Sub Scores: 1330; R: 640 M: 690
ECās/APās, Awards, Clubs: NHS, 4 years football, 3 years track, All-State Academic award recipient- football, 130+ volunteer hours, 15 hours AP/dual credits, PALs
Thanks so much for all of the great information and help during this very long process. Itās not what we had hoped for but life sometimes requires detours to reach our destination. My daughter traveled the same path and now that sheās a junior, she says she would not have changed a thing. Best of luck of everyone!
My DS also going to UARK.
Iām still in review with my change major still thereā¦ what could this mean?