<p>I have a dilemma. I am accepted to both universities. However for TAMU I am accepted into the school of engineering as a petroleum engineer major. At UT I'm accepted as an undergraduate studies student (undeclared). Because of that I had already made the decision to attend TAMU, but then I received my financial aid and it turns out UT is giving me 8k more than TAMU! What I wanna know is if it will affect me a great amount if I go to Austin as an undeclared student and then try to transfer into their engineering program? Or should I just stick to A&M and start taking their engineering classes since my first semester?</p>
<p>Congratulations…Can you please post your stats. I am also interested to take Petroleum as a Major. Thanks in advance</p>
<p>Tough choice, but the $8K would be the deciding factor for me. In your shoes, I’d go to UT & make sure I get my GPA up to get in the same program as TAMU.</p>
<p>The University of Texas at Austin accepts high school students who rank in the top 7% of their high school. Of that 7%, students who are in the top 3% study engineering, business, and pre-med.
Essentially, if you transfer into engineering at UT, you are competing with students who are experts in obtaining A’s. It is very difficult to compete, but it makes you smarter. The bright side of being alongside UT students is that they are overall, smarter, more open-minded, and it is so diverse that you can easily find friends and learn from them.
I had three roommates, 1 was a prince from another country, another scored a perfect SAT, and another won a grad school math competition and now makes 90K working for Google. So if you ambitious enough, and want to surround yourself with insanely intelligent and diverse people, then choose UT. If you just want to solidify a job, I would go with A&M as they have a better career center than UT.</p>
<p>My friends who graduated with 3.5 gpa in petroleum engineering at TAMU are making 80k. My friends that graduated with a 2.8 gpa in engineering from UT are making 80k… So it sounds like you will have a job at the end of the day either way.</p>
<p>Follow the $$. </p>