I agree that the CStat campus location is the major advantage of TEAB & TEAM over other pathways. The RELLIS campus is nearby. There’s a bus route between the MSC (central A&M campus) and RELLIS with a 30 minute transit time. They don’t even need a car! The TEAB track schedules are pre-set with 2 days on main campus and 2 days at RELLIS per week to avoid conflict. No issues with finding/registering for classes - Super convenient! Good luck to your son!
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Other folks are here are experts, but I’ll share that my daughter was accepted last year and my son (junior in high school) plans on applying this summer. He spent the night with the Corps and the advisor there explained that each holistic applicant gets two scores.
One score is objective - SRAR based (grades, course rigor, etc.) and standardized tests (if submitted). (A good standardized test score definitely helps. Not submitting/submitting a low score isn’t supposed to hurt.)
The second score is based on all the other factors - ECs, leadership, essays, interest, first gen college, etc.
The admissions team adds those two scores together and that’s how they rank kids. If you are “above the line” - whatever the threshold entry score is - you get in. (My guess is that are kids that are obviously well above that score hear quickly. If you are closer to the line, you may have to wait. But I’m not sure about that.)
This combo of scores makes it possible that a kid with a higher GPA/class rank or SAT/ACT would lose out to a kid who received higher marks in the other score. That’s why you see some inconsistencies. And that’s why the essays, leadership, ECs, etc. are important.
The other explanation we received is that the SRAR / objective criteria include strength of classes - so AP, advanced math, etc. are weighted more. This explains why some kids with higher GPAs lose out to kids with lower GPAs who took more difficult/advanced classes. (And this disadvantages kids who attend schools where lots of AP and/or advanced classes are not offered.)
It was also implied that competitiveness of high school matters, although we never got a straight answer on that. If that is a factor, then it would help explain why second (and even third) quarter kids from elite high schools fare better than kids who attend less competitive high schools. By way of personal example, many, many kids in the middle of my daughter’s competitive big city high school class were accepted to A&M and UT last year despite not being close to the top 10 (or 6) percent. By contrast, my niece and nephew attend a small public school in East Texas and their class had almost no acceptances to A&M/UT outside of the top 10/6%. So I think the admissions folks know which schools are rigorous and give a boost to those students.
Bottom line - it is not an exact science.
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I’m hoping we’ll get some full admits this week and then the options email will come out after that. Gateway could be end of january as well.
FYI this is @ChristiR93, my prior email was hacked so I had to create a new one and just now getting around to updating this since I have no access to old email. Why do people have to hack stuff anyway? Surely they have better things to do.
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This is very helpful, all of my kids want to attend school OOS and at this point many are very from from home. Every school tackles this process differently. I do appreciate the schools that do conduct a true holistic review of our kiddos. I really have been blessed to have found this group, everyone has been so helpful!!
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Does anyone know if admissions will look at an updated transcript from fall semester. My daughter passed 50 people and moved to 1st quartile taking a difficult course load. Or is it too late?
It would never hurt, since it’s holistic review. They already know her classes if she put them in SRAR correctly.
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Someone on another site asked a similar question in AIS and were told to upload the new transcript or any corresponding documents in AIS. Now whether TAMU reviewers will consider it is questionable as others are only being judged on the SRAR.
@rappc A&M will not consider fall grades. If your students rank jumped to Top 10%, that’s a little different. I believe they could then enter next January as an auto admit (assuming they don’t take any college courses during summer or fall).
I guess it wouldn’t hurt to ask Admissions, but don’t count on it helping. If they allowed fall grades for everyone, holistic reviews wouldn’t come out until summer!
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Hello! Did the advisor mention how easy/hard it is to get Corps scholarships in an amount sufficient to trigger in-state tuition (we are OOS)?
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What is AIS
It’s the TAMU site where you check your application status.
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Apparently last year after jan and early feb, it was mostly team offers. is that true?
All pathway offers, not just TEAM/TEAB, some full admits (but slim numbers).
It’s mid January, which means the admission clock is ticking…
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hahaha its really scary but the way you said it made it sound kind of fun 
WE GOT 7 TABS this morning!! Whoop!! Hope that’s a good sign!! 
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Congratulations! If you don’t mind sharing, What major? holistic review, first quarter? Thanks.
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My daughter has 7 tabs! Blinn Team!
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Can someone tell me how we pay the housing deposit? And if they get a new email to do that or use the existing logins they have used for AIS / Howdy? SO EXCITED!!!
Congrats! Did you get any email about Blinn Team or did it just appear on Howdy with 7 tabs?
She had 7 tabs, and checked under Manage Applications and it showed Blinn Team as her major.
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