Blinn Team guaranteed entrance is a 2 year program (hitting all requirements). If you choose team and after one year have enough to transfer, then you apply as a transfer student. No guarantee. 3.5 is engineering only and that’s to get your first choice major in engineering. Totally different than team.
@MomHopesNxtGenAg @AggieMomhelp @AggieMomAgain Howdy so I think that I am coming closer to making a decision on attending tamug since I really want to be an aggie in the future. I just visited tamu galveston recently and both me and my parents loved it and tamu college station visit today was pretty cool too. I hope on signing up for nsc, applying for housing, etc asap like this weekend and making my final decision over the next 3-4 days. I was just wondering since I have credit for an ap exam human geo, do I send it to tamu galveston or tamu cstat? Gig em’
Attended a PSA event in Coppell (DFW) tonight. The Transfer Advisor from the TAMU DFW Prospective Student Center, Justin Permenter, said the applicant pool for Fall 2019 was 50,000 students. FIFTY THOUSAND.
He might be incorrect, but I’d say he’s in a better position than most to give an accurate estimate.
(cross-posted to PSA thread)
@daleNchip I’ve heard a little more than 50k, with 90% auto admit. Numbers are mid blowing.
@AggieMomhelp @AggieMomAgain contemplating accepting tcu and apply for transfer for softmore year. If accepted she can choose to move to CS or stay at TCU if she loves it. Thoughts?
@DrMcSwag I’m confused. Does your daughter want to attend A&M or TCU? She got one of the coveted Blinn TEAM spots, which means she can live on campus, buy a sports pass, rush a sorority, etc. She can always apply for transfer to TAMU, if she decides on TCU, but she won’t get any kind of preference, and it’ll be tough to transfer in (especially depending on major).
We have friends who would JUMP on a TEAM offer, but sadly few were given this year.
She has two great acceptances-I don’t understand the contemplation? Where does she want to go?
I don’t think she knows.She was sure about A&M but then went through months of agony waiting. These are questions she asks and obviously not getting a full admit is bothering her right or wrong. She wants to go tour TCU before making a decision & this is one of the questions she asked. If she would have gotten a full admit, say before xmas justas an example, I suspect she wouldn’t have even finished her TCU app but now she is considering other places. Doesn’t mean she won’t ultimately take the Blinn offer but now she is looking & this was one of her questions. She is an eighteen year old kid with doubt and questions about everything. She is also competitive with a lot of pride. It is just who she is.
@DrMcSwag if your daughter didn’t have the scores to get in automatically (Top 10% or ACT/SAT/1st quarter), then she should count her blessings with a TEAM offer. My daughter knows of ONE friend-from her 800+ senior class-that got offered TEAM; all others PSA, 1 Gateway and the rest denial.
I wish too, that they keep academic admit for instate students. I have not looked into, and not sure if it breaks it down for academic admits who are offered admissions and enroll, from out of state vs instate ones, to know how that really would affect the numbers. We do know that 4648 offers of admissions went to academic admits. That was 19% of admissions offers. That is a lot of spots but again, how many will be opened up for those falling outside of the top quarter and below 1360/30 with qualifying sub scores. Maybe a lot, maybe a few, we just don’t know. Perhaps more competitive majors will undergo holistic review for the major, as UT does, as well. It will be interesting to see what changes are made in the coming cycles.
http://provost.tamu.edu/Provost/media/Assets/pdfs-essentials/TexasA-Messentials_Freshman-Overview_ew.pdf
It has been some time ago that I posted all of the info about how the top 10% came to be and UT petitioning to reduce their enrollment to 75% of incoming freshman class being from top 10% auto admit. From what I recall, UT had to petition the legislature to reduce top 10% admissions to 75% of their incoming freshmen class. I don’t believe that petition covers any other university but I’d have to go back and re-read for sure.
With the legislature in session right now and the deadline to file being now past, A&M could not introduce a bill to lower their admissions of top 10% until January of 2021, when the legislature is again in session. The Texas Legislature put the top 10% rule into place and they would be the one to amend it.
March has long been the published date of decisions for A&M. February has long been the decision release for all alternative routes for admissions. No other school in Texas has as as many pathways for admissions for both engineering and all other majors, so comparing how they roll out their decisions to any other universities isn’t apples to apples. Even if A&M gets rid of academic admit, with all of the different pathways, admissions will likely still go through March. Until after Dec 1, they will not know how many offers of admissions they can offer until all of the auto admits are processed anyway.
As it is, UT incoming freshman class is limed to 75% coming from top 6-7%, leaving room for 25% of the incoming freshman class to come from the review, OOS and international applicant pool.
A&M, for fall 2018 and prior, had 30-40% of the review applicant pool being offered some type of admissions, be it full admissions or a pathway of some type, which included engineering academy decisions (not including PSA). Full admissions offers for review applicants has been between 13-19% of review applicant applications.
With the reported influx of more auto/academic admits for fall 2019, I am interested for the preliminary numbers to come out in Nov.
Texas population continues to grow.
For sure there is no reason why A&M couldn’t exclude academic and auto admit for OOS students and like UT, only take the absolute top students who would be full pay. IMO few OOS applicants will attend TAMU on full pay at the moment. TAMUs yield for full pay OOS academic or auto admits would be very small. It looks to me like the NMFs that still get $$ are the bigger protion of OOS admits that would otherwise be full pay.
I agree @Sybylla looking at the dars numbers in the past and the OOS students without a waiver are more than those without a waiver. A&M will still heavily recruit the NMF’s. Last I recall, their published data is they are #6 nationally for the most NMF’s.
My antidotal info that doesn’t carry any weight, is I know of several engineering OOS students who were not NMF’s but were Academic Admits (high scoring 1450+\34+, that received the waiver but no other aid and just as high scoring in state who were offered no Merit aid.
anyone know anything about applying for the spring term in 2020?
@jimmy567807 Not sure what you are are looking for but application opens July 1st and closes Oct 15th which is earlier than for Fall 2020. http://admissions.tamu.edu/freshman/apply
@jimmy567807 Just curious…are you sitting out 1st semester and applying as a first time Freshman in the Spring?
We know people who have their kids graduate from high school a semester early, for the sheer sake of entering TAMU in January-as it is supposedly easier to get in then. I’m curious, also, what the admission rate will look like for entering freshman Spring 2020.
@DrMcSwag Your daughter already accepted the TEAM spot, correct. As in “online” accepted? I only ask because if she hasn’t, I was wondering if the option to accept it was still on the table. We were told that it’s first come on the TEAM slots and once they are full, they will pull the application.
Here are my 2 cents, maybe a nickel, on TCU vs TAMU TEAM. Definitely tour TCU. That way she has no doubt on what shes accepting or not. So it’s great y’all are already going to do that. Secondly, if she’s wanting a big school 4 year university feel her freshman year, then she’ll get that at both schools. Taking 2 courses at Blinn is not going to change that at all. Even those students that come to Cstat that didn’t get TEAM but attend Blinn, get a good sense of the 4 year university because TAMU students are very inclusive. TEAM students can participate in everything (all but NCAA sports). So unless she wants to play for JimBo, she’ll be good (just kidding… I know we have girl sports here too). She will find her place here if she chooses to branch out and meet people. She’s wanted here, it’s just there were sooo many students that were just as competitive or more so.
And yes, there were just over 50,000 applications this year. 42,000 were complete and reviewed. We have spoken about this several times on this. The amount of really qualified students that got PSA this year is insane. Prior years. many of these students would have been full admits or worst case scenario TEAM.
As for applying for transfer in the spring…you need to make sure you have all required coursework done for your major before applying. They won’t look to favorably on someone that has most of the required course in progress at time of application. IF you are applying as a freshman for Spring admit, please please please keep us posted as to how that goes AND be sure you don’t take a single college course after you graduate from high school. not online course or anything… nada…
@jimmy567807 @52AG82 @AggieMomhelp I spoke with a regional advisor recently just about this very topic - Spring 2020 admission. IF you are a senior in HS just about to graduate and applying as a Freshman applicant the Spring admission then offers will either be 1.admitted or 2. declined. There are no Blinn TEAM, Gateway or PSA pathways offered for Spring admission. He also said ‘think carefully and plan how you are going to usefully spend your Fall semester’. If your 8 semester GPA from HS improves to a point where you now become an auto admit or academic admit with appropriate required test scores, then he said it’s worth applying but if you were declined in March as a review applicant and your GPA/test scores are the same then most likely you won’t receive a different offer second time round. He did reiterate, as many on this forum have done already, for Spring admission DO NOT take ANY classes after graduating HS. If you do this makes you a transfer applicant which has different requirements/stipulations. Also, you won’t hear til after 15th Oct which is getting late for a plan C or D should you not get the offer you wish
Interesting @Scotsfi ! In the case of the family we know, one child would (most likely) not have gotten in, applying as a regular fall freshman; so he graduated high school early in December and did get in that January. They’re planning to do that with another child this coming school year.
Do you think TAMU lowers admission req for students doing this? Or do you think it is strictly auto/academic admit?
@DrMcSwag: Wow, that is difficult. Your daughters choices: Blinn-TEAM or TCU with Honors and scholarships. But she isn’t thrilled about Blinn-TEAM offer because it is not a Full Admit offer. She is also not sure about TCU as TAMU was her original first choice, so she is contemplating accepting the TCU offer with the thought of transferring to TAMU as a Sophomore if she doesn’t like TCU.
Is this correct: Your daughters stats are: Major Biomed engineering/biochem secondary. Class rank 28/226 (10.7%) SAT 1300 (Math 670 EBRW 630). With a straight A 4.0 gpa, (and what probably knocked her out of top 10% was taking a regular English class instead of an advanced English class). Your daughter is a remarkable young woman, with stellar stats and a very bright future wherever she goes. I am sure that she is academically ready for the rigor and pace of University courses at either school.
My thoughts are: if before she has even enrolled, she is contemplating transferring from TCU as a Sophomore, then her heart isn’t with TCU.
And transferring is also getting extremely difficult. Maybe a few years ago, transferring from TCU into TAMU wouldn’t have been difficult. I have no idea how hard it might be next year. But if she wants to be an Aggie, I wouldn’t take the risk of starting out elsewhere when Blinn-TEAM was offered. If she starts out at TCU, she might like it and might stay, but will she have a little voice of doubt for the rest of her life? If she accepts the Blinn-TEAM offer, she will be living the Aggie life in Aggieland from day one.
Her feelings may be hurt over not receiving a Full Admit offer from TAMU, but the reality of Blinn-TEAM is that there is NO WAY to look at any student in CStat and determine who is a Full Admit, a Blinn-TEAM or TEAB admit. Or even straight Blinn CC for that matter.
And yes, I know that being an Aggie doesn’t suit everyone. I am not from TX, I went to a major 4 year OOS University which also has a great football team and a lot of school spirit. I didn’t know much about either school in TX before my oldest daughter started the college application process. At her NSC, I was initially shocked at how loud the Aggie yells are and bemused by some of the traditions. But I guess I also “drank the Koolaid” as now I enthusiastically sing “Saw Varsity’s Horns Off” at the TOP of my lungs! 
Before your daughter makes her final decision, I highly recommend a trip to both campuses during a week day when classes are in session. Take an official campus tour, tour the dorms if she plans to live on campus (my daughters did not), schedule a meeting with TAMU Blinn-TEAM advisors and Biomed/Biochem advisors and ask all questions you can think of, ask to have her sit in on a Freshman class in her major. Eat lunch on campus. Get a feel for what the campus feels like, what the students are like, what the town is like, what the drive there from home will be like, etc. If she is interested in going Greek, check out the location of sorority row, and which chapters are on each campus. Make a spreadsheet of all of the pros and cons and let her take a little time to digest all of the variables in order to make the most informed decision.
I don’t know much about TCU, neither of my daughters applied there. So I can’t compare “apples to apples”. But my younger daughter chose TAMU Blinn-TEAM over full admissions at TX Tech, UTD, UNT and UH, with merit money and honors at most if not all of them.
You never know what will be the deciding factor(s). For my daughter:
- TAMU was her first choice, not too close but not too far. Great school spirit, great football, large school but friendly campus and town, very highly regarded degrees and active Aggie Network. Older sister graduated in 2016 so youngest was familiar with campus/football/sorority, but I insisted that she visit on a regular school day to get a feel for the campus to see if SHE fit in there. That tour in Sept 2016 solidified that TAMU was her first choice before she even submitted her application. Then it was a very long wait until the Blinn-TEAM offer in mid Feb 2017.
- TX Tech was too far away, but size of school, size of town, school spirit and football was OK, had her “first choice sorority” (her sisters sorority). Did not visit in HS but had been there when her sister was visiting several years earlier. Would have visited before making a final decision if she had not been offered Blinn-TEAM as this was probably her second choice school.
- UTD was in urban Dallas area, school and campus felt too small, no football and they didn’t have her “first choice sorority” either. When we visited it, she said it felt smaller than her HS, a 6A suburban TX HS.
- UNT was also far away, smaller school, small town, football not great, had her first choice sorority but that was only pro for that school besides merit money/honors. Canceled visit to UNT after visiting UTD and really not liking the drive to Dallas, as she knew she wouldn’t like driving beyond Dallas.
- UH is smack in the middle of Houston, not a traditional campus vibe. Lots of commuter students. (We have friends who have children there and their main worry is traveling through unsafe areas of Houston to get to campus). Lot of school spirit, Football is on upswing, which was a pro but did not have first choice sorority. Closest to home also a BIG con! LOL. Did not visit but would have if she had not received Blinn-TEAM offer as then her choice would have been between Tech and UH.
Our youngest daughter did not apply to any private schools as she did not want to have any debt upon graduation. Her older sister chose TAMU (holistic review at 27% rank, with SAT/ACT Academic Admit scores for her year, offered Full admit for Fall 2012) over SMU (scholarship money, the most gorgeous campus and very small class sizes were the “pro” categories for SMU) as SMU did not offer full tuition scholarship money.
We had the TX Guaranteed Tuition fund (for both of our daughters), so although the merit money offers from the other schools were a boost to her ego, they were not necessarily factored into her decision. That money WOULD most definitely have been a deciding factor if we did not have money already set aside for her college tuition. But because of Blinn-TEAM, she will have hours left in her account to use toward a graduate degree as we paid cash for the hours taken at Blinn because they are a lot cheaper than TAMU hours.
My daughter has older sorority sisters who started out as straight Blinn CC, who then transferred to TAMU as Sophomores and went through recruitment with her. They chose Blinn CC as Freshmen because they really wanted to be an Aggie, to start out in CStat and felt like they wouldn’t be happy anywhere else.
Receiving the Blinn-TEAM offer was disappointing at first for my daughter, but she quickly realized that it offered her the opportunity to be an AGGIE. Her HS stats were not as stellar as your daughter’s are. Perhaps if my younger daughter was applying for this year, she would have been PSA or rejected. Perhaps if your daughter had applied for Fall 2017, she would have been a full admit. This year seemed to be brutally competitive.
I hope that y’all are able to make the campus trips to both schools before she makes her final decision. And also make sure asap that her Blinn-TEAM offer isn’t time sensitive. Not sure if it is or not, or if there are only X number of seats available and it is first come, first in. I would hate for her to wait too long to make a decision and then find out that all Blinn-TEAM slots are already taken. That would be heartbreaking.
The final point I can make is that Blinn-TEAM has turned out to be FANTASTIC for my daughter. I am sure that there are people on CC who are tired of me writing volumes promoting Blinn-TEAM! My apologies to them, but @DrMcSwag asked my opinion! 
@AggieMomAgain, I couldn’t have said it better. This is from a 2nd Mom who is going through this with her 3rd Child. We also are from out of state and my kids all graduated from a 6A Northern Texas High-School. My Son is presently in Blinn TEAB and is on a mission. He probably wouldn’t have gotten Blinn TEAB if he had applied this year. His stats were good, but not as good as your daughter’s. He is about to finish his 2 Engineering classes, 2 Science classes, and CALC 150 and CALC 151. He has a 4.0 as of today (yes, on a mission). He is about to apply for his Entry- to- Major next Monday and should get his 1st choice Engineering Major for the fall. He has met a ton of Engineering students (who are full admit as we all say). They and he could care less. My son’s biggest issue is driving to Rellis (he can be lazy). He’s having the time of his life (his words) and absolutely loves the challenges that are presented to him. He would not do it different. Best of luck. The above advice is just great!