<p>I am a review admit and I was just wondering, what does admissions look for in a review admit? Are the kids that are accepted as review admits just the kids who fell short of auto and academic admit, or do kids with lower sat’s and gap’s have a chance of admission?</p>
<p>Hi, Amirna: the review process is “holistic”. They look at all that has been submitted and judge each student against the pool of review applicants. They are wanting to build a diverse student population. Am guessing students from underrepresented groups will be some leeway on scores and rank. Some majors are more competitive than others like Architecture and Engineering.</p>
<p>my daughter got into Architecture as a review admit. In '09 when she applied, there were 1200 applicants for 100 spots. She told me this weekend there are 50 left of the 100. Architecture requires a 3.0 gpa to remain. Its tough. She was asked last fall to join the Honors program.
She was in top 12% of her class, good ACT (29) score - average SAT score - had lots of community service hours, graduated on the distinguished program and Texas Stars high school deploma, lots of AP classes, 14 credits of dual credit classes, she went on a official campus tour, college of architecture offical tour, met with advisors at prospective admissions center in Arlington, she did one of the events A&M offers for high school jr/sr’s - applied for the Game Day event, but did not get “drawn” out of the hat to attend - and has two Aggie former students as parents.</p>
<p>I think those kids do have a chance. DS has a good friend who somehow was admitted ahead of several other friends (same highschool and these other kids had better grades, similar ECs). This kid had no legacy advantage. He is Hispanic, but so were two of the other kids.</p>
<p>Anyway - we won’t ever know how they chose this kid over the others, but clearly something made him stand out. So hang in there!! </p>
<p>Here’s some other ‘good news’. The Blinn Team is amazing. I had no knowledge of it until some of DS’s friends entered the program this year. Those kids are given EVERY advantage that the A&M kids have, so if given that opportunity I recommend you take it! You go to all the events, attend football games…you just don’t live on the A&M campus. The classes are super-easy, you make your gpa and transfer over.</p>