Wow, this place is super quiet compared to my daughters year!
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I am guessing we are all resigned to the fact that we non-top 10% won’t hear anything until mid-october at the earliest. My 2024 DD high stats non-top 10% psychology major received 7 tabs on 9/27/23.
My 2026 DD applied for engineering. We are in it for the long haul.
Do we have any chance for Mays with the below stats:
non-auto, second quarter( rigorous course work), 3.63, SAT 1430(780M,650EW), decent essays & ECs.
Agree. I have a current Freshman who applied last year. The process was much quicker.
I’d guess a decent chance at a Blinn TEAM offer..hopefully student checked that box?
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My son had similar stats last year. Did not get Mays. It was full before his application had been looked at. He was given the 3 options in January I think (team, waitlist or both).
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I was thinking the same thing!
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It said “in review” but she hasn’t sent in the letters of recommendation. Does this slow down the review process?
What day of the week do they typically update the Howdy Portal with 7 tabs? Seems like back in ‘22 for my older son, it was on Wednesdays.
LORs are optional, so it will not slow down the review process.
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Soooooo quiet this year. I can’t tell if parents are more informed, less involved, both or just hiding and watching lol.
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I’d love to know how A&M handles 1st choice v. 2nd choice major? My son is holistic review: SAT 1320, GPA 97.6 at a non-ranking competitive HS in Austin. He’d love to get into Mays. If he doesn’t make it into Mays, will they look at his second choice major? He put down Economics but is it better to go with Ag Business?
I did post this on Sept 8 but I don’t think anyone saw it:
Howdy! My son worked so hard this summer preparing for his Applications. He sent in his TAMU application on 8/1 so now we wait! He is holistic review from a non-ranking competitive HS in Austin. SAT is 1320 and GPA is 97.6 and he has a fair amount of work, extracurricular & volunteer experience that I think is a fit to major (Business). I could see the result going either way, so I’m just thinking about back up plans. If he’s offered Team Blinn, do any of those students end up in Mays? Is TAMU Galveston another pathway to Mays? Thank you all for this thread and information! It sure is helpful!
If they accept him, they’ll look at first choice major. If full, they’ll look at 2nd choice major. If open, they’ll put him in there. If full, they’ll give him opportunity major… meaning any that are open, he can choose from.
That’s helpful! Thank you!!
Remember… accepted to Tamu first. Then major. Therefore major isn’t the deciding factor for being admitted.
Anyone with data on how big the population drop is for 18 years old starting this year? How will this affect admissions at competitive schools like A&M?
I have no clue on this matter. @FriscoDad … any insight/thoughts to this?
There is no significant drop this year (0.03%) to about 395K. The slight downward trend is going to be only three years and in line with national average as well so all US states experience the similar decline. Long term Texas is preparing to continue to see increase of high school graduates and surpass 400K graduates by the next decade. So population won’t have any noticeable impact on competitiveness.
That’s only prediction, it can change due to economical and political policies. Texas has the most undocumented high school graduates (yes more than California) so any political change will increase or decrease the figure by 2 to 3% or overall graduates numbers. But historically, economic factors (living expenses) affect the numbers the most. Consider back in the early 90s, California had twice as many high school graduates as Texas but today is only 6% more than Texas.
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So I’ve read through the past couple of years and had a general question. I know the standard answer is admit to TAMU first, assign to major second, BUT when they do their holistic review for admittance, are they reviewing the whole application in light of their chosen potential majors? Based on what I’ve seen, you’ve got high scorers/1st Q not getting full admit to Mays or Engineering but average scorers getting into less in demand majors.
I ask because we’ve got average test scores over here, but how will math scores be assessed for a major that is not as math-focused?
Admission office’s main goal is improving TAMU retention rate. With the trend of reducing funding for all national public colleges, improving retention rate is the easiest and free way for cost saving. Below shows 4-year retention rate and TAMU is pretty bad. The main reason was due to auto-admit rule.
Therefore, for holistic review, admission office base solely on one goal, the chance of survival (retention) and finishing the degree at TAMU. That’s why high scorers are first to get picked. The rest will be based on everything (geographical data, peer performance, course vigor…) to evaluate the chance to retention.
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