Friends “change major” button is gone as well. Sadly I do think this means PSA.
My son was accepted to TAMU back in September and Engineering in December and when I log into his Howdy his change major button is still there. Not sure that it means anything for those of you waiting or not since he was already admitted.
Same here. My son was admitted on February 5, and he still has the “change major” option in both Howdy and AIS.
My change major button on howdy is gone…
What does this mean?
PSA is not a pseudo-rejection. It is very similar to Blinn Team except that it is in another city. TAMU tells you exactly which classes to take and, if you complete them and maintain a 3.0 average, you are GUARANTEED admission to TAMU-CS after the initial year. No re-application. No transfer process. The university at which you spend that year has a whole program that is coordinated with TAMU-CS and they are constantly in touch with the PSA students. If the student fulfills their obligation, they are automatically blended into the TAMU-CS student body.
Interesting that the admissions chat says one thing, but it sounds like PSA might be in our future after all. Anyway, good luck to everyone, I’m doubtful that we will accept a PSA offer, but we will weigh our options and figure out what is best for his education.
My change major button is gone as well, still 3 tabs tho
@2xAggieMom Are you automatically accepted into your major or are you admitted into the school and have to apply to the major?
I still have my change major button
I’m not sure whether or not it is PSA or another type of admission, but if if it is PSA shouldn’t the site code description change? Or would it change later in the night?
What is leading everyone to believe its PSA?
On PSA: Texas A&M can not admit students to other system schools. They are governed by seperate university presidents. So its not as easy as A&M sending Tarlton or TAMUCC a file and say “take them”. Each school does have admission criteria (although not as strigent as TAMU) and believe it or not some A&M applicants that are denied admission to TAMU also are denied admission to PSA schools or they may only be offrered certain PSA schools. Those schools also have resource limitations such as housing, faculty etc. This is one reason TAMU is building the RELLIS campus. Coordination between TAMU and the PSA schools must occur to some degree and would make logical sense that this would contrubute to decisions coming at the end of the review cycle after they have made most of the TAMU admit decisions. I any case it is rather moot as we have no control over anything except our own reactions to the circumstances
My son got PSA 2 years ago. The timeline I remember is that is once the change major button disappeared it took about a day for the AIS to show the actual decision. So maybe tomorrow you will know for certain. It helped a little to be prepared knowing that was our fate. My son did not take PSA because he had very optimistically already signed a lease for an apartment in College Station. He went to Blinn-Bryan for a year and transferred into A&M this year. It did work out for him after all.
@Ross2729 good point. The site code would change or at least 1 out if your 2 majors would drop?
@mamma3g Folks seem to be coming to this conclusion, because the change major button is gone from the Managae Applications section in Howdy for some folks.
thanks Debbie7452!
What happens if your major is not included in the PSA program?
@CyRanchXfer I had tried to edit the tag as I knew you were responding to someone else. My son at Tarleton plans to get his doctorate in Music and loves their music program. My younger son applied and was accepted to Tarleton in the event he received PSA. We also met the scholarship deadline and Honors College. I don’t know what happens though if he wants to accept a PSA offer but attend one of the other system schools. He didn’t apply to the others.
So if this means PSA( and it seems as though it is) has anyone considered living in CS and driving to PrairieView. Would that be a good option? It Is only 45 min drive. So very doable.
PSA and/or PTA is a great option - again, if your heart is set on being an Aggie there are many paths to get you there and NONE of them are listed on your ring or diploma. Just says Texas A&M!! If considering PSA check to see if your desired major participates in PSA. I was surprised to learn that Animal Science did not participate in PSA. Was told that in an Animal Science introduction session last Spring in TAMU - CS.