@austinmomlv & @LaFinalista another vote for Tech! Beautiful campus, slower pace of life, great Engineering school, Big12 athletics, all 4 seasons and so much more. Medical school, too, for Chemistry major, if @AJGate can change majors.
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Are you wanting to major in chemistry?
Far is good. That is what college should be about - challenging yourself. My daughter is going to A&M for this very reason instead of going to Tech, even though its closer and she received scholarships there with the major she wanted. If we could have made college work in the NE we would have done that. We wanted her to get out of her comfort zone. Texas Tech has a great engineering department apparently. Good luck!
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Just an opinion (Aggie ‘97 civil engineering grad & I interview a lot of intern/new grad candidates) - if you’re not going to A&M, Tech has a solid engineering program. Great alumni network. We hire a lot of Aggies & longhorns but also a lot of red raiders.
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My husband hires interns in finance, specifically investments, and he recently had a round of interviews with kids from UT, A&M, Rice and Tech and he said the kids from Tech were really impressive. They beat out a lot of other kids from the “better” schools. No one should “sleep on” Tech - to use my son’s vernacular! 
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By numbers game for the waitlist, do you mean that it is just based on test scores and GPA at this point or quickness in selecting one of the three options—and does this go for TEAM only as well? Also, if we selected TEAM only, what were the insights on that if you have any other information? I am wondering if there is a reason why they are taking longer this year to respond to those individuals? Also, when you said choosing both does not affect your chances for either, does that mean that choosing both would have been better than choosing TEAM only since the chances for all of the three options are the same?
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I just copied and pasted what someone wrote on Facebook page. I am not sure which option is better. From previous years though, those that picked TEAM only had a better chance. That is what we picked this year.
I heard that the FAFSA delay could also be a reason why it is taking so long this year.
I don’t see how FAFSA would have anything to do with admissions decisions since there is zero correlation.
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It has a lot to do with it. Normally people know how much they will pay so can more promptly accept or deny admission somewhere. But if they don’t know their full out of pocket cost, then they can’t say for sure. For example let’s say a kid applied to TAMU as their safety but also applied to Vanderbilt and Wake Forest. Vandy and WF are expensive and they can’t tell a student for sure, yet, bc of Fafsa delay, what the kids out of pocket price will be. Then the kid sits even longer on their TAMU acceptance and there isn’t any freeing up for waitlist - which is essentially what 3 options is. Alllll of these top Texas kids apply to TAMU as their backup and it just delays everything. Sucks for the rest of us.
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The previous comment stated that FAFSA was slowing down the release of TEAM acceptances…there is no correlation between being accepted to a school and Your FAFSA. Yes people make decisions based on the financial package offered after acceptance but AO don’t use it to admit you to a school. I can see that it could affect the waitlist long term but TEAM isn’t waitlist.
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Awe that made me smile. My son is at Wake. Expensive as heck. But gorgeous.
The whole FAFSA makes more sense to me than anything. The TEAM students will take at least one course on campus. So I understand that TAMU needs to better estimate total enrollment before offering spots to TEAM students.
This article is interesting from Texas A&M Today:
Will the overhaul affect when students receive funds?
Ingram: No, but it will affect the timing of offer letters. So, if students are applying for financial aid at multiple schools, they will have less time to decide which financial aid offer they’re going to accept. In the past we were able to send out freshman offer letters at the end of January. With this delay we are hoping to send offer letters by early-to-mid-April.
Does anyone have any data or insight on the odds of actually getting on campus housing at this point? We’re a 3 option waiting family here. So if we (fingers crossed) get Blinn Team 3/1, is there any chance at on campus? I’ve been looking at Callaway and Callaway Villas based on recommendations here. Would obviously prefer on campus since A&M is so large. I’m a former student but it’s a different place than when I was there in the 90s!
Straight TEAM isn’t waitlist, but those have already gone out. 3 options is absolutely a waitlist for TEAM. There is no other way around it. It’s essentially said “pick one, if there is room we will give it to you, but we arne’t guaranteeing it.” That is waitlist. And they are waiting to see who declines and if there is room. FAFSA delay causes a trickle down effect of delay that we will feel for things like 3 option at TAMU.
So this is first I heard the if you chose Blinn Team on 3 options it’s a Blinn team waitlist. We were under impression from previous years it was almost guaranteed Blinn Team. I know this year is different but is it Blinn Team waitlist?
This is my opinion on what it feels like. Straight Blinn TEAM offers already went out, so what else can it be?
when did those go out? I must have missed the posts
I know people that have gotten them, so I was assuming many went out already.
A number of people reported straight TEAM offers in January? A couple of February but @FriscoDad thought those may have been accidental options releases.