@angie333: Based on the results of the TAMU holistic review for my daughters in 2012 and 2017, I think that you have a decent chance at either full admission or Blinn-TEAM. Your class rank is higher than both of my daughters, but your SAT score is lower than both of their scores. That may balance out, but it is hard to tell how the holistic review committee will decide. Hopefully your essays and Letters of Recommendation are great. Hang in there, but don’t stress about this situation. Enjoy your Senior year, it will go by quickly!
Daughter 1: Full Admit after review for TAMU, Freshman 2012, TAMU Class of '16: She had a weighted gpa of above 5 on a 6.0 scale, don’t remember her unweighted gpa. She was top 27% of her HS class, her SAT/ACT scores were at or above the Academic Admit score for 2012. Several AP and Dual Credit classes. ECs: 3 years on HS team plus Leadership role, volunteer hours at church including mission trips abroad. NHS and French Club. Really good essays and Letters of Recommendation. At TAMU, she joined a sorority and a fun campus group and was a Peer Undergraduate Mentor in her Major. She graduated Cum Laude (3.5 TAMU gpa) in Spring of 2016 and received a job offer on her first interview while still a Senior at TAMU and is now employed in her major. That is the power of a TAMU diploma and the Aggie Network!
Daughter 2: Currently a Freshman on TAMU Blinn-TEAM 2017 (and LOVING IT!!): She had an unweighted gpa of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale but I don’t remember her weighted gpa, I think it was a high 4 on 6.0 scale. She was in the 53% of her HS class with an SAT of 1250 (670 R and 580 Math) and 27 ACT. The HS is the top public school for this area with 30+ NMSF each year and the competition level has just gone up each year. She had one Dual Credit English class. ECs: Same EC as her sister for 4 years, one JV as Freshman plus 3 years Varsity, no Leadership role. As a Senior, she was also on a competitive team outside of HS in addition to the HS team, (which taught her great time management skills!). Very few volunteer hours during the school year or in any of the Summers due to health, surgery, sister’s wedding and competition team schedule. She was eligible for NHS but did not apply because she doubted that she could make the commitment to the necessary volunteer hours. She had great essays. And she had great Letters of Recommendation, one from her Chemistry teacher (an Aggie) and one from her 11th Grade AP English teacher (a Longhorn). She had a concussion in 8th grade, missed 2 months of school and had to drop out of Algebra 1, and it still affected her health and grades in 9th and 10 grade. (And I think that it affected her Math scores on standardized tests.) She will major in something in the Liberal Arts College and may stay for a graduate degree. I am eternally grateful to the TAMU holistic reviewers who saw something interesting about her in her application (despite her low class rank) that allowed them to offer her the opportunity to be an Aggie on Blinn-TEAM.
Daughter 2 was initially very disappointed to be offered only Blinn-TEAM. but soon came to realize that TAMU Blinn-TEAM offered her the opportunity to be an Aggie. The only thing that she can’t do that a full admit can is that she can’t play a sport for TAMU. LOL, not that she wanted to! She takes 4 hours on the TAMU campus, and 9 hours at the Blinn campus. She takes the bus from the TAMU campus to Blinn on the 2 days that she has classes at Blinn. She lives just off campus, has Dining Dollars so she can eat on campus (mainly Chick-fil-A and Smoothie King, LOL!), she has a Sports Pass and goes to games, she has joined a sorority (it DOES NOT count against you when going through Greek recruitment to be on Blinn-TEAM, no one in Aggie land cares if you are on Blinn-TEAM), she has joined a fun TAMU campus group, she has made a lot of great friends and has great grades and is thoroughly enjoying being an Aggie in College Station!! She can’t imagine being anywhere else.
There are just a LOT of people who want to be an Aggie. There just isn’t room for everyone. If you look at some of the other CC boards, there is info on the breakdown of people from last years holistic review and the decision that they were offered. There really wasn’t a discernible pattern to who received full/Blinn/Gateway/PSA offers, or denials, but it is a very interesting posting by Thelma.
Of the 42,000 applications for TAMU Freshman Fall 2017, about 27,000 applications were reviewed. Of those reviewed applications, only 3,800 applicants were offered full admission. There were 2,400 reviewed applicants who were offered Blinn-TEAM. There were 855 applicants who were offered the Blinn Engineering Academy. There were 530 who were offered Gateway. If my addition is correct, that adds up to 7,585 reviewed applicants (out of 27,00 total reviewed applicants) that were offered the opportunity to begin their University experience in College Station. So almost 20,000 applicants were offered some other campus or denied admission.
(Find the full breakdown of this info for Fall 2017 online at the Counselor Update : http://web-as.tamu.edu/ecardimages/2017/CounselorConnection/updateSPRING.html
There were only about 1,050 Blinn-TEAM students who enrolled for Fall 2017. Less than half of the students who were offered Blinn-TEAM accepted that offer and so the others missed out on the chance to be an Aggie in CStat. I don’t know how many of the full admission or Blinn Engineering Academy applicants accepted their offers. But I think the total TAMU enrollment for Fall 2017 was around 11,000 students.
Lots of people want to be Aggies! There just isn’t enough room for everyone, that is just the way that it is. There are several ways to get to be an Aggie and have the benefit of an Aggie education and diploma and the Aggie Network, plus the wonderful experience of being an Aggie in Aggieland!
Plan A: TAMU Full Admission
Plan A-: Gateway, TAMU Blinn-TEAM or TAMU Blinn-Engineering (experiencing living in CStat)
Plan B+: Start out at Blinn Community College and transfer to TAMU. (experiencing living in CStat)
Plan B: Start out at another campus and transfer to TAMU asap.
It is more difficult to transfer as either Engineering or Business majors that it is in the other majors.
One of my second daughter’s HS teammates was denied admission to TAMU. Both of the parents and at least one grandparent of this girl are Aggies. She knew that she wanted to be an Aggie no matter what, so they reserved an apartment just off the TAMU campus for her BEFORE the denial was received. Her plan B+ was to start out at Blinn College so that she could live in Aggieland. I don’t know her rank or scores and have no idea why she was denied, but I admire their forward planning and her determination not to let anything stand in her way of becoming an Aggie.
Don’t lose hope. If you want to be an Aggie, make it happen.