thanks themla, your daily words of encouragement are soooooo needed.
even though there hasn’t been one really big wave there has been one of some type of full admit since November. Not to say there won’t be another because I have no idea but that makes sense due to it being rolling admissions. I guess they are just doing it differently this year plus the delay from harvey.
You do not get Gateway because your major is full. You get offered Gateway since you have some sort of hardship, that possibly did or could impair your ability to transition to college. Some of the past reasons stated by applicants: concussions from sports, life changing event ( death, long term illness, divorce, etc), medical issues, changes of environment or challenging environment ( financial, other home members, loss of home, etc). Often it is what is discussed in an essay vs. pure stats that open the gateway option to applicants.
@AGmomx2 - thanks for the response. while we certainly are not complaining, it seems odd given your explanation as my son does not have any of these issues that you described.
Gateway can also be for those that scores high on test but struggled in school ranking with peers. One can be a good test taker and below average student and vice Versa obviously.
Whatever the reason… very few get the offer. But I totally get why you would want to know why that decision over other options.
@AggieMomhelp @AGmomx2 thank you for your explanations on gateway.
@Classof82 that was the way it was explained many years ago by an admissions rep that use to post regularly - he was wonderful. He got promoted a few years ago & the info. isn’t as free flowing…good for him, bad for new applicants. He would even check on your personal file if he thought something was askew. Apparently they now rely on team ‘Steve’ :)]
@AGmomx2 love it… that post about Steve just made my day.
yes - thanks to you both - very helpful! @AggieMomhelp i think you are correct re the stats - especially the class rank.
Does it help in any way to contact TAMU or do they just get annoyed? There is really nothing I would have to contact them about other than to ask the same things everyone else is asking. I feel like all I can really do is wait but if it helps to call, I need to get busy.
@aggieforlyyyfe Your friend’s sister better watch out who she tells that information to because if it ever got out that she was publicly telling people, especially to her sister who has friends who are new applicants, the status of admissions decisions, her job could be in jeopardy. The irresponsibility of doing that, and it being repeated, say, to thousands of people on a public forum, would not go over well.
Even if true, repeating that information is a breach of her duties.
Unless she is completely uninformed about the confidentiality of her job, or is just that immature and attention seeking, I find that information you were told to not be credible.
@DFWAggie18 It does not help to call. Admissions will not give you the answer about anything. It will be generic, as we have been seeing for weeks. I am sure they are annoyed. That is why they have a scripted answer, though sometimes it varies to a degree of which it is contradictory to the other Steves.
The only thing there is to do is wait. And come here to commiserate with fellow wait-ees and the rest of us.
Back to Team ‘Steve’ then! 
@AGmomx2
Is that Jon you are talking about from a few years ago? He was great when I had a kid in review. He would actually return emails.
My daughter also got offered Gateway with no hardships. She was top 11% with low test scores but good EC and resume. I guess it could go either way. @AGmomx2 @Classof82 @AggieMomhelp Who knows why but I AM THANKFUL!
My son got Blinn TEAM with a not so hot GPA and class rank, a few ECs, great test scores (31 ACT/1370 SAT) and pretty good essays. It seems like they are really trying to place the kids where they think they will succeed. I also have a suspicion their majors might have something to do with what path they are offering the students. Unfortunately my son wants to be a Finance major so he is going to have a rough road ahead of him. Maybe they are trying to “weed out” or discourage some Blinn TEAM wanna be business majors as getting a 3.8 at both Blinn and TAMU for 2 years seems pretty difficult…
@ATXAggie that 3.8 sounds sooooo hard, right? I don’t know why they have to make it so difficult… but maybe in a year or so they could lower the required GPA. I have several of my daughter’s friends who changed into Mays this past Fall and they had below a 3.5!
@SECondkid2tamu yes, that’s him. There also was an honors person that use to comment here as well. Just repeating what I have heard over the years. It is a very loose term, so the important part is they saw potential in your student to succeed at Aggieland 
Congrats!
@AGmomx2 Gateway is not necessarily because you have an hardship. My daughter got in because her ACT scores were lower than they should of been. GPA was a 3.91 & Rank was in the 7% range 24/389, but her ACT was a 21 after taking the test 2x’s. She is just not a good standardized test taker.
I thought top 10 % received auto admit. Is there a minimum text score requirement?
@AggieMomhelp, yes I think that 3.8 GPA for Freshman year is a bit unreasonable. I told him he needs to really look hard at majoring in Economics instead. We’ll talk to academic advisors while at the NSC. I don’t want him to take a bunch of courses for Finance and then be unable to transfer into Finance because he didn’t have a 3.8 GPA! That would be a bunch of wasted courses and money.