Well, my girl finally got a letter from Admissions today. It was the one inviting her to be placed on the wait list and blinn team. She is very disappointed, but I am telling her that her chances of getting in by either method is pretty good. Hope that this is right. Anybody know the odds of either?

I don't know the answer to that question, but I'll bet it's pretty good she will get in on the Blinn deal.

As I told you before, I don't see anything wrong with doing this!

I'm glad she got this letter. Must put her mind at ease!

Yes it does maybe put her mind to ease slightly, but the uncertainty of it all will really be hard for her as graduation from high school approaches. It will be another 6-8 weeks of wondering and worrying about where she will be going to school in the fall. May sound like no big deal to most of us, but to an 18 year old it is a much bigger deal.

If she does not get in, she can go to a community college for one semester, get good grades, and transfer into A&M pretty easily.

ar12aggiedad, I never said that we sent all the letters out last week, but I do know that most of the people that were in review did have a letter sent to them last week.

We had a big roll of a large group of students that were in review to either, admitted, denied, or denied wait list / blinn team.

We sent out around 9,000 letters in two batches(admit and deny). The majority of them were one of the two types of deny letters.

If you think the letter got lost in the mail, try that whole Bonfire block trick or the New Student Conference website. The NSC Website should let you log in at this time if you have already been officially admitted.

AggieDad, don't let her do the Team Blinn option! She needs to go for the wait list and also apply to Blinn. The app is free until she registers for class. If she goes the Team Blinn route she has to complete 60 hours with a 3.0 to get guaranteed admission. If she takes classes at Blinn all she needs are 12 hours and for some majors only a 2.5 to get in as a transfer student.The real problem is she needs an apartmetn because regardless she won't get into a dorm.

aggie-master,
When do you guys start sending out letters for transfers?

aggie-master, I was not saying that it was you who said all of the letters went out last week, but someone in the admissions office did tell me that when I called this past Tuesday. Can you tell me what the odds are for someone on the waiting list are for getting admitting in May? Also, is there a possibility of going to summer school instead of the Blinn Team route. I know a lot of schools have a probationary admitance for the summer in order to be fully admitted in the fall.

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yummy - I used to work for Corps recruiting, and I learned a thing or two about the admissions process. The one thing that I would almost be willing to bet money for is that the first two cousins probably sent in their applications earlier than the third, most likely, they sent in theirs before Thanksgiving, and the third afterward. Before Thanksgiving, they will admit almost anyone that meets the minimums, but after Thanksgiving, the number of spaces avaliable drops below the number of applications recieved. It is then that they start to get really picky about who they admit. The lession is that you should put in your application as soon as admissions starts taking applications for your class.

-EAD- Now my info is a couple of years old, but just 2 years ago, we suggested that people applying for admission apply to more than one college(the one they wanted and something like General Studies), because there were people applying for only one college, and not getting it. Things might have changed since then, but I don't know for sure.

Also, essay topic C is very important! It is the forum where the applicant can tell the
admissions board why they should be admitted. The admissions people that came to speak to the HS students who did Spend the Night with the Corps told them that if they wanted to get into A&M and were not top 10%, they needed to do the essay.

on a similar note, a couple of my freinds were in their first year of school this year at a&m, but had too much fun and failed out but were told to try hard and come back...they are goin to blinn next year, what would you say they need to do to get back in and what are their chances...I would think getting a 3.0 or so for the year would be enough
also would they have any problems getting into blinn since they failed out of a college? or does blinn let pretty much everyone in that has proved they are smart, i.e. making it into a&m or getting 1300's on the sat and such

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The part about applying early was really valid. In August, before my daughter's senior year, online applications were to begin August 15th we started checking a week or so before that date. On Aug 11 it accepted her application, her scores had already been sent and her counslor over nighted her transcripts. Everything progressed quite smoothly and her letter of admissions arrived September 15. She got her first pick on a dorm because she sent all that in so quickly. She's Class of '05. Our son was Class of '98 and we basically did the same thing but all applications were on paper. He was addmitted by mid-October.

From our experience I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to apply early. If you get something in the mail from A&M, get it returned the next day. Stay ahead of the pack...get your test scores there early and make sure your high school counslors get things sent to the Admissions Office as soon as possible. I've seen alot of great kids miss out just because they didn't know how timing was so important. Good Luck to all and I know this won't help some of you now but maybe it will help those looking to apply in the future.


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Actually, my cousin who did not get in, sent her app in first. But for some reason they told her they didnt review it until a few weeks ago.

There are personal interviews you can set up right to try and get in?

no, you can appeal the decision, but they dont setup personal interviews.

Man.. it seemed so much easier back in '94 when I got accepted.I was in the top 25% at Jesuit adn all I needed was a 1000 on my SAT to be automatically accepted. Back then if you applied early enough, all you needed was a certain SAT score depending on your class rank to be Automatically accepted.

I lucked out. I mean I took the SAT early my senior year and got accepted in Spetember.

I know it is too late now for you HS seniors... but do they still do the automatic acceptance program?

They did in the Fall of 2000. My kids took their SAT's and ACT's as Juniors in HS. This really sped up having everything submitted as early as possible.

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Okay, I was in the same situation as yummy's cousin two years ago. I checked both the Blinn TEAM and wait-list options. I ended up accepted into Blinn TEAM and really liked it.

I was concentrating on engineering and most of the people in my physics and math classes were either TEAM students or co-enrolled students.

I couldn't finish the program because of my AP hours from high school and ended up transferring full-time after one year.

For questions about the TEAM Program, I would STRONGLY suggest leaving admissions and the colleges out of it. Call Russ Graves in the General Studies office. He's a GS advisor and knows more about this program than anyone else.

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"Can you tell me what the odds are for someone on the waiting list are for getting admitting in May? Also, is there a possibility of going to summer school instead of the Blinn Team route. I know a lot of schools have a probationary admitance for the summer in order to be fully admitted in the fall."

The admissions office has a predetermined number of people that they want to be in the freshman class.

They give a deadline to the people that they admit to sign up for a New Student Conference. Once they find out how many have signed up for a conference versus how many they want to attend a conference they determine the amount of wait list people to admit.

Like I said before, a couple of years ago they admitted 25% of the wait list people.

I believe that they do have a provisional admit where you go during the summer and prove your worth, but I suspect that they have to offer it to you and it is not a choice. You might want to call an Admissions counselor to find out about that.

aggie-master,

You are correct, provisional admissions has to be offered as well. The letters for provisionals went out last week.

As for Mom '03, transfer admissions are NOT as easy as you keep indicating. It is becoming harder and harder to come in as a transfer every year. I bet that you could count the number of majors who take students at a 2.5 on one hand. 90% of the majors would require at least a 3.0.

As for TEAM, you may as well select that option along with the wait list. You do not have to complete all of the requirements for full entry, you can always transfer before the two years is up. However, it is very difficult to meet the terms of the TEAM program (3.0 at TAMU and Blinn on 15 and 45 hours at each). The best back door into the university is TAMU-Galveston.

Come down here and try it.

TAMUG is great. I was going to use it to get into College Station, but I took a couple of major related classes down here and I am not leaving till I graduate.

Besides, we are twice the Aggie. We have yell practice Thursday night, so you can go to CS to do yell there too. Also, the generally pull the Sea Aggie tickets in a block, and go charter up to CS!

Sounds like a win-win to me!

If it hasn't already been mentioned.. students in the TEAM program at Blinn *can* live on-campus.

Here's my story and my 2 cents:
When I applied, there were two application due dates, December 31 and March 31. I turned in my application in mid March, because I was cocky and thought I was a shoe-in to get into A&M (31 ACT, top quarter of my class). When my denial letter came in, I was pretty devastated. We called admissions and they invited me to come meet with them in College Station. They explained that I was more than qualified to come to A&M, but I simply turned in my application too late. They said that there was nothing that they could do about it, but made me a deal. They offered to let me transfer after one semester at Blinn, which was a sweet deal considering that I would have no college GPA when I submitted my transfer application. I accepted it, but later decided to stay at Blinn for two semesters. I APed out of Calc. I, so if I stayed two semesters I could finish Calc. II and III at Blinn, and finish Engineering Physics I and II. They put me in contact with an advisor in engineering that esentially made my schedules at Blinn for me and guided me through the whole process.

The bottom line is that they want every qualified student that wants to go to A&M to have the opportunity. I ended up being a great deal, since I'm putting myself through school and Blinn is 800 a semester compared to 3000 at A&M. I also applied for a 4000 dollar Engineering Scholarship my first year at A&M, and the lady who advised me while at Blinn selected the recipients, and that helped me get it. The only complaint I have is that I have 99 hours right now and can't order my ring because I went to Blinn (I don't have 60 hours at A&M)

Like mentioned earlier, you can't get caught in the "Blinn is so easy" trap, or you will screw up. If you have your goals in sight and work for them, going to Blinn can be a very beneficial thing. To everyone that almost got in, my advice is to talk to admissions and go to Blinn.

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In the TEAM program, you're considered an A&M student in general studies. You get the same opportunities as full-time students, like on-campus housing, student organizations, FLO's, fish camp, sports passes, etc. There are a few exceptions though, like sorority rush, ncaa sports, and some leadership organizations.

I remember that feeling of uncertainty after I got that wait-list letter. I mailed it off the day I got it. It's going to be a decent wait and can get very frustrating. I didn't hear back until a week before my graduation. I would say be careful about calling admissions now because the people pretty much spend the next 2-3 weeks talking to hundreds of very upset parents and students that were outright denied. That's also part of the reason the TEAM Program was created.

The best advice I could give is to stay in contact with advisors from general studies and the departments of interest, like Bighamp03 said. You make a lot of contacts that way.

In my case, I came into the program with 25 AP and dual credit hours. I realized that I would have finished all my general CBK courses by the end of my second semester and would be wasting the next year on classes I didn't need. After inquiring for weeks, I was given permission to take upper-level engineering classes, even though I wasn't even an engineering major. The advisors told me to think about transferring early to A&M. I had already turned in my application for the summer and was told that I would be taken care of.

That's my 2 cents.

I would consider making a multi-million dollar contribution to A&M.