@steffenberr the major matters at A&M. Impacted majors that take very few transfers due to space constraints, like Mays Business School and the most popular of the engineering majors (Aero, Mech, CompSci, Comp engineering, Petro, etc) have very few seats for transfers. Mays takes 100 a year. In Engineering, it depends on the specific major. All freshmen are in general engineering. The engineering freshman class is usually around 4800 students. In April of their freshman year, they apply to a specific major. These students get priority for a spot. Then there are the sophomore students who didn’t qualify to get into a major in the prior semester, so they get next priority, students already in a major but may decide that major isn’t a fit and will apply to change majors internally. They get next priority. Then, if there are any spots vacant in that major, transfer applicants are considered and the most competitive one’s win, so to speak. Two or three years ago, Petroleum took 0. This year, CompSci took 5 transfers.
Most majors have transfer course sheets that should be followed if an applicant doesn’t want their app thrown out. The transfer course sheets tell an applicant exactly what they need to have completed to be considered.
Yes, it is possible for a student to attend a community college and get into engineering. But the chances are few and far between. Go read the transfer threads and the 3.8 gpa’s being denied. It’s not merely taking two years of classes and transferring into engineering.