no change
I’ve been praying and praying like no other to get into A&M. Now I’m praying to find trust in god no matter where i end up…
That is a good prayer! He has a plan!
We keep having that same discussion in our home. I know my son will end up where he belongs.
heres my stats
SAT-1240
GPA- 3.9
Rank 156/419
173 service hours
EC- SOCCER TEAM
YEARBOOK (Editor)
FCCLA
MATH AND SCIENCE CLUB
LINK CREW
SUPERINTENDENT ADVISORY SOCIETY
NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY
NATIONAL ENGLISH HONOR SOCIETY
CLINICAL
will graduate with 24 hours
BIMS is first major
Public health is second
Still in review
I emailed the dean of BIMS and she forwarded my email to the director of BIMS and the associate dean. She was very kind and wished me the best of luck
because my class rank is so low, i felt that emailing her would help her remember my name instead of me just being a one dimensional piece of paper. I really wish we could like send a video to admissions so they can see our personalities and how eager we are to attend.
Nothing here…but now is our 1rst second choice is strongly turning into our 1rst 1rst choice. The mailers, the responsiveness to emails, the welcoming attitude…a much different experience all around. Same with her 2cnd and third choices. If aggieland is meant to be it will be, plenty of other options to choose from now.
Anyone call admissions this morning? Friend just called and was told mid March…urgh
no didnt call but live chatted yesterday and was told mid march.
When i called the Prospective student center they told me they were instructed to say all decisions will be out March 1st
@babymomma. It seems admissions or their representatives are in chaos. Just hoping we hear something this week. if they are reading this blog they must not get how their mixed messages don’t help anyone. Good luck everyone!! We are all still in play! Fingers crossed.
I know how frustrating the wait is… we are waiting on other schools as well with little to no replies from them on when we’ll hear back. BUT with TAMU… they keep saying March 1st or mid March and it’s not March yet but we, me included, are frustrated. I was talking to someone yesterday at TAMU and she asked why we are all impatient if the date they are giving us hasn’t even happened yet? That made me stop in my tracks. She’s right. We’re all so anxious and frustrated but yet TAMU hasn’t told anyone that we should have heard by now. Yes, fewer acceptances of all kinds have come out compared to prior years, but we all know this is an unusual year for several reasons… starting with early application to Harvey, to the Texas freeze as well as receiving more apps than usual. If another wave doesn’t hit by the end of the week,THEN I think we have a leg to stand on with our gripes and frustration but checking every day all day when TAMU said we won’t hear til March is on us, not them.
I’m not saying any of this to make anyone mad, just trying to put it in a different perspective. Our impatience can be our worst enemy!
I think the issue is that mid-March is just unacceptable when it comes to making plans for next year. If A&M admissions cannot be efficient enough to notify applicants earlier than that, they need to back up the application deadline even further. Since they can’t get the process completed in 6 months, open it in May or June and close it in October. I don’t know of any other schools that are this inefficient, and yes, that even includes UT. It’s a disgrace, really.
I agree. My son applied in July and has been in review ever since. Most of his other friends found out in the fall where they had been accepted. Guess the early bird gets the worm does not apply to college applications. 
I think mid march anticipation is a safe bet…we are all in this together at this point.
@Cyranchxfer…I think you underestimate the number of schools that still have to hand out regular decision. Yes, many schools have handed down their ED/EA decisions and many schools have a rolling admissions policy. TAMU is neither EA or rolling, so mid-March is actually a normal time frame. Any holistic review decision that comes before that mid-March timeframe is a gift. TAMU states upfront what the cutoff is for auto admit/academic admit. I don’t think anyone in those categories is still waiting to hear a decision (unless it is for Engineering). The rest of us are holistic review and even then TAMU never promised an answer before mid-March. If you needed an answer to what school you are attending prior to mid-March, perhaps a school with a rolling or EA decision process would have been a better choice.
I don’t disagree that mid-March feels late, but honestly, it is rather “normal” in the grand scheme of things. Yes, many applied very early, in July, and are still waiting, but remember that TAMU never said that there was a necessity to apply early (except for Engineering) and never promised there would be an answer before mid-March if you applied early. If you consider that the actual deadline was two months ago, TAMU is on track. The issue is not how long it takes for them to do a review…the issue is that they start letting out decisions for some holistic review candidates, but not all, giving the impression that there is a rolling decision process (which is not the case). It is not first come first served as is the case in a rolling decision process.
MIT (who traditionally gives their decision on Pi day), the Ivies, many LACs, U of Washington, California schools, in general, still have yet to give out their regular decisions. My daughter applied to U of Washington; the application opened September 1 (which is the day she applied), deadline was November 15 and response period is March 1-15th…6 months since she applied, 4 months since the deadline. TAMU is certainly not a stand alone in terms of it’s application timeline.
I guess that I am grateful that TAMU even has a holistic review process. They could move a strictly numbers game like LSU or Ole Miss, but I wouldn’t call that an ideal situation either. Sure there are things that TAMU needs to work on to tighten up their application process, but from my experience their timeline is no different than many other universities. There are plenty of other threds here on CC that bare witness to that as well.
@labegg Amen!
FWIW - I agree that mid March feels kinda late (I’ve had a 2/12/15 Blinn Team accept and a 11/21/17 Full Admit) but in talking with my friends that live all over the US and their children’s college process NONE of them have heard, all expect April 1st time frame and are kinda baffled that my daughter ha her college decision in November… I think in the grand scheme of things it’s relatively normal timing but because A&M starts with automatic accept candidates decisions going out almost immediately, it feels like their admission decisions have been going onforever. In the cases with my friends that have students applying to schools in CA, NC, SC, LA, IL, AL, TN, MI, NY, etc - NONE of them have received decisions from their schools. Hang in there. If you want to be an Aggie there are lots of paths to get you there. A ‘No’ now is not a ‘No’ forever.
I guess if you want to count A&M as in the same league as Ivies and MIT, sure. I went to A&M and don’t have that opinion of it. Unlike many, I’m very skeptical of the holistic review process, but I’ll shut my mouth and wait like everyone else now.