For those of you getting the 3 options for engineering, would you be willing to post highest math and physics taken/enrolled and your SAT/ACT score and quarter assigned by TAMU?
I assume everyone has strong extracurricular, essays, etc.
My kid is at school, and I have no idea if the portal has been checked today.
Best of luck to everyone!
Well at least there is movement. If you recd that email for engineering, your student is not being reviewed for full admit. Teab is as close to full admit they’ll get right now and it’s an AMAZING offer and it will fill up quickly.
The difference between blinn team for other majors and TEAB is that TEAB is usually for just one year. Then they ETAM and have every chance as a full admit has at getting their desire major. Same with Galveston and McAllen.
If your child wants TAMU engineering and isn’t waffling between other options, then hit that button!!!
Let me add in - TEAB is a great offer! No disrespect, but calling it the community college choicee is a bit brazen and also completely inaccurate.
If my kid were in engineering (she wasn’t) we’d jump all over that. Congratulations are in order here.
To quote Christi - hit that button - then kick ass, and don’t look back…
Your student should really consider Blinn and Galveston. Blinn is going to be very close to being a regular student at A&M, it’s cheaper and he gets to take Freshman classes with a couple dozen people instead of a few hundred. Everything else is basically the same. Galveston is a great option because it also has much smaller classes and your student is very much an Aggie at that point and will actually get to pull football tickets before CS. My son was first row, third Deck for the Texas game this year and the Bama game last year. I know of multiple kids who did a year in Galveston and are doing great in Engineering at CS now.
One other thing to note is ETAM is a huge deal for Engineering majors and the reality is if your kid is not a regular admit it can’t hurt to take those Freshman classes in smaller environments and without the kids who are taking them in CS that have already taken them in HS and just want the GPA. You have to make grades and Blinn and Galveston are better places to do that.
McAllen I understand. That’s a System school and not part of A&M and you don’t get any of the benefits. It’s also a long way from anything.
Remember it’s about where you end up not where you start. An A&M Engineering Degree has a lot of value over most schools and the internships and job opportunities and network it provides. If your kid has an option at another strong Engineering school like Purdue or Texas that’s fine but it’s a significant difference from A&M to Tech or even Auburn or Clemson.
*McAllen is a Branch campus, not System. McAllen gets the Aggie ring.
But yes…it is still located in McAlen 
I have two Cosc/CoSci students- one is '27 (completed all lower level cosc classes) and one '29, starting in the fall. happy to answer any questions I can about it. and yes, it is small.
eta: I see option emails are going out. I don’t think cosc does Blinn team, but there is a cosc program in mcallen.
https://mcallen.tamu.edu/academics/construction-science.html
Future Engineering Moms …
Something I wish someone had told me when my daughter was going through the application process…
CONSIDER GALVESTON BRANCH CAMPUS.
Galveston is full acceptance to A&M, same Aggie ring, sports pass.
They spend 2 semesters there (3 if the don’t pass the MPE and have to take the extra math class)
My daughter ended up choosing Galveston last year and she has been so happy that she did.
Class sizes are small and her professors know her well and that leads to higher chances for higher grades! She has already been told to start looking for places to live in CStat and she said she is sad about it. She knew she’d need to move eventually, but has loved her time there so much!
She said she can get anywhere on campus with a 10 min walk, knows a lot of people on campus. The cafeteria food is pretty good and she likes their midnight yell better! She gets to pull football tickets before CStat. Her meal plan and parking pass work in CStat when she is there for the games.
They are building a very large engineering building there right now and it will be ready for Fall 2025.
Consider Galveston!
Take your kid there during school so they can see it in action!
We homeschool so may be slightly different but:
Calculus
Physics 2
SAT 1390
Assigned top 25%
We received the 3 options this morning and already selected Blinn
My kid receive the letter today for the 3 engineering options. Stats :
AP call A/B
AP physics 2
SAT 1390
1st quarter
Selected Blinn as well
If you kid got the email giving them the 3 choices for engineering (TEAB, Galveston, McAllen) congratulations! Although it is disappointing not to get first year admission to CSTAT, those 3 choices are considered full admission to A&M so jump on that quickly as it will fill up.
As others have said, TEAB is a program where the students takes some classes at Blinn Rellis and some at TAMU main campus. The benefit is that the student is in CSTAT the first year. The downside is that they have a certain GPA they have to achieve at each respective campus so it can make ETAM a little bit harder.
At Galveston, the ETAM process is the exact same as CSTAT and they are full admit TAMU students at Galveston from day one. There is no downside to this except that they are living on campus in Galveston their first year (1.5 years if they don’t score high enough on the MPE to start in Math 151). I assume McAllen is the same as Galveston but I don’t know anything about that option.
Be very happy that your student got the 3 options email and pick one ASAP!! I have two engineering students - one a junior at CSTAT and the other is a freshman doing the Galveston option and is on track to ETAM and be at CSTAT in the fall.
I also want to add that in the previous couple of admission cycles, after the 3 options email went out for engineering, there were some emails directly offering kids the Galveston option. They did not have a choice between TEAB, Galveston, McAllen, their offer was to Galveston. This is also a very good offer and I would recommend taking it if you get it. However, I think it is also possible that there will not be many of these offers going out this cycle because TAMU Galveston just shut down two big residence halls for renovation over the Christmas break and they may not be done by August, so fewer places to house kids may mean fewer offers.
@RBT26 - Question regarding your above post. If kid selects a pathway today, it is still not guaranteed admission to TEAB, (or Galveston or McAllen), correct? Is there still is the possibility of not getting an acceptance ???
My son chose TEAB back in 2023 and has had a wonderful experience. He especially enjoyed his classes and professors at Blinn/Rellis. He was an auto-admit to his first choice major last spring and is now a full-time A&M Engineering student. Just popped back to help answer any questions about the program. Feel free to reach out! 
Correct. No guarantee but yes it’s 99.99999% likely you’ll get your choice of pathway/decision. I wouldn’t wait to choose tho.
@Christi1993 any feedback on these questions/thoughts from last night?
My son received the Galveston offer only on 1/28/22. He took it along with a couple of buddies and it was an awesome experience. He ETAMed got his first choice of materials science and just found out he landed a great internship this summer. If you really want to be an Aggie, hit the button now!
Still waiting for my daughter’s acceptance for this year in the college of education. Please hurry A&M, the waiting is brutal!
As a former TAMUG student from 25 years ago, don’t discount Galveston. I was not a direct admit to TAMU and chose to go to TAMUG. I was there for 2 years and LOVED it before my major required me to move to College Station. From what I understand every aspect that I loved about it is still there and it seems to have only gotten better. I really pushed my Top 10% auto-admit son to go there for his first year of General Engineering because he is coming from a very small private school but he really wants to be in the Engineering LLC and wants to be in College Station. I think he is probably making the wrong decision but after he made his decision I have dropped expressing my concerns. We will see how it goes I guess. Anyway, enough rambling. TAMUG was and still seems to be a pretty great option. 
Any Thoughts on TEAB versus Galveston - TEAB seems to have more proximity to the main campus
Hey everyone! Intl admit general engineering here @ college station.
I applied for a scholarship and never heard anything back, what do I do?
