I agree, trying to be patient though. I’ve heard it could update in the morning or late afternoon. We have been refreshing all morning.
Not sure if it has sped up or not over this admission cycle but my son got 7 Tabs on 8/8 and we didn’t see it hit his AIS until 9/12. We weren’t able to sign the housing contract and pay the deposit until 9/13.
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No, not yet for my daughter and she’s getting kinda stressed.
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WOW - that is a long time for AIS to update. Hoping ours updates sooner.
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I really think it will update sooner. I think it was just the system getting started for the year. Like other things weren’t ready across the university so they wouldn’t update the AIS until it all was. I did not post this to scare anyone, just to inform that there has been a wait for AIS to update this year.
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We’re waiting for the update too. Got 7 tabs Sat and getting stressed too
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Thank you for sharing…told my daughter you are “in” so no need to worry. We were more so wanting to get it updated to pay housing deposit but I believe that window has closed :-(!
The housing window did not close. You will just be assigned a temporary housing status after yesterday. From what I understand, those who are assigned that status not long after the change seem to get changed to permanent housing status sometime later on. You may not get dorm you really wanted or even get to pick your room mate but you will get a room once changed to permanent housing status. You guys are so close to the change I bet you will get a room that isn’t considered temporary.
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Despite the 40,000 eligible applicants, 59% of the A&M incoming class is from top 10%. 30% at UH and presumably 75% from top 6% at UT.
My nephews are thriving at A&M. Two are first gen auto east TX kids in Mays with high grades. The others are from DFW private.
A key is providing support services to the first gen, or economically disadvantaged, kids. The private Us do it. My kids weren’t top 10% so I get the frustration but holistic creates lots of comparability issues as well. Seeing it with U of Florida admissions.
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If Texas population continue to grow, it will happen but will be done gradually not immediately drop to 6%.
TAMU is already harder to get in year over year. A decade ago, being top quarter will get admission.
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Check AIS because my daughters just updated to officially accepted.
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Check AIS because my daughters just updated.
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Was she able to fill out the housing application?
Not yet…was told that won’t open for us until around 24 hours from when AIS updates :-(!
Thanks for the update. This whole process is stress inducing!
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I take that back…the housing portal is active so being allowed to fill out application.
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Remember that it’s a 2 step process. She isn’t done until she gets the message about “next step phase 2”.
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My son texted me and said he doesn’t see a sign up link to fill out an application. He accepted the offer for TEAB, but no link. Just the standard Tour our Facilities, Housing Options, etc.
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The best system imo is Georgia and how they handle GT and UGA or North Carolina with UNC and NC State. They heavily favor In State Admits and give them multiple advantages, lots of money, and keep tuition low. They keep their best kids In State at a very high rate. At the same time they do everything they can to make sure they are giving First Gen and Rural kids every opportunity and benefit of the doubt. It’s definitely harder for a kid from a Suburban Atlanta school to get into those schools than a kid from Rural GA. It’s harder for a kid from Wake County to get into UNC or NC State. Still they do it holistically so they aren’t bound to a single factor like Top 10% and instead they look at Rank, Rigor (in the context of what is offered), SAT, GPA, etc and they end up with very few kids that flunk out and a much more balanced and fair system than A&M and Texas.
I completely understand your point on highly competitive 6As, both my boys attend(ed) one. Eldest was right at the 50th percentile as he didn’t take much in the way of APs and had a handful of B’s. Absolute killer in rank at a place like that. Still he learned tremendous study habits and was used to a highly competitive environment. He got into Galveston (not CS) and is graduating in 3 years this Summer and has a 4.0. He thinks college has been easier and less stressful than High School.
Youngest is Top 5% of his Class and has monster stats and ECs. Most of the Top 5% kids though are getting into Ivy or Ivy Plus schools or are getting massive scholarship offers. A frustratingly small number of the Top 10% go to A&M because they have so many other opportunities. A&M doesn’t give much merit at all unless you are NMSF and most of those kids have a ton of options anyway. My son never got so much as a postcard from A&M and got a full brochure from literally all 8 Ivies and he’s 3rd Gen with a 1510 SAT. In spite of his background he will still have to deal with ETAM as well and have that hang over him if he goes to A&M even if he gets Honors Engineering.
Once again kids like my boys are fine. If A&M doesn’t want them or want to recruit them they are just fine. You would think though that it would make sense for A&M to want to recruit and get as many of the students who are likely to be successful from Texas as possible but that isn’t the priority, at best they are taken for granted and get to pay full price or have to go through an indirect path to go there when they have so many other options.
I just wish we would take a look around at other comparable states and make adjustments, so many of the issues are easily fixed. Instead the argument always seems to be “You don’t want Top 10%? Why do you hate rural/poor kids?!?!” The reality is quite the opposite. That said I have no optimism they are even considering getting rid of Class Rank as the most important factor above all for A&M and Texas because politically it’s the easy button.
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