Chance & Match Me: CS Major, Asian, Owner of Successful, New Video Game [TX resident, 3.99, 1260 and 1370, top 7% rank, needs full aid, divorced parents]

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Yes, I will be applying EA to all (at least I hope)

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Deadline for A&M Engineering EA was October 15ā€¦
pay very close to all school deadlines.

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Yeah I was aware of that. I didnā€™t have my rec letters in on time.

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Just read - I put your list from the first post.

I said yes to UTD

And Ga Tech - as itā€™s required.

A&M I was unsure.

The others no - meaning for Austin and Rice, go TO.

Good luck.

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How exactly does A&Mā€™s engineering school work? Do you get into A&M and then if your grades are good, get into the engineering school (comp science in my case)?

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Since CS majors usually have a 1500+ SAT, would UTD consider it bad if I submitted it? I have the option to not submit, but you say otherwise, so Iā€™m just trying to clarify. My apolgoies!

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I think that everyone competes for a year and the top 10% get to pick their major. The others are sorted out based on their GPA.

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What happens if you donā€™t get accepted into the school of engineering? Do you just transfer or?

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Sometimes you just need to have your own part of the application in by a deadline, and there is a bit of a grace period for things like letters of recommendation. Just to know for any future deadlines, you could check to see if thatā€™s true.

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UTD is an easy admit school. Test or no test youā€™re fine. You might look up special scholarships. But 98% show submitting a test (not sure if required) and the range is 1180 to 1410 at the 25/75.

So yes, Iā€™d submit.

Plus, if you read this, it might be required anyway and maybe why they have 98% per CDS (some could have submitted both but itā€™s still a high rate anyway.

  • SAT I or ACT test scores, if available.

So yes - submit.

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@compscy you really need to look at TAMU Engineering page closely.

All Engineering students enter as General Engineering (despite what you list as your major choice-i.e. CompSci). There are multiple pathways to getting Gen Eng acceptance also (see links). Once all pre-reqs are taken (usually end of spring freshman semester, or one semester later), youā€™ll apply for ETAM. A 3.75 guarantees you one of your top 3 choices (not Top 10%, as mentioned above, itā€™s a 3.75).

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Yes, if you earn a 3.75 college GPA in the first year general engineering courses, you can pick CS or any other engineering major. If not, then you apply into a competitive admission process where you must list at least three majors. CS is unlikely to have any space for admission in the competitive admission process for those with college GPA < 3.75.

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I used ā€œtop 10%ā€ to give OP a sense of how competitive a college GPA of 3.75 is, because college GPAs are different from HS GPAs - a whole other kettle of fish.
(I actually wonder if ā€œtop 10%ā€ isnt even an optimistic proximate for Engineering.)

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Iā€™m sure having a 3.75+ GPA is decently hard to obtain right? I have a 3.976 currently in high school, but college is different.

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@compscy it can be difficult to get at A&M-even for large school valedictorians & NMF.
If you are dead set on CompSci ONLY, Iā€™d suggest focusing on schools with direct CompSci admit.

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What happens if you donā€™t get your choice? Do you just transfer out to another university?

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No! There are still plenty of other Engineering majors offered, you just arenā€™t guaranteed your top 3 choices, if you donā€™t make at least a 3.75. Youā€™ll be offered another Eng discipline.

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You could choose Agricultural Engineering, Industrial Distribution, perhaps the BA in Computingā€¦? (Guessing those arenā€™t as requested as more typical programs like CS, CSE, ME, ChemEā€¦)
However itā€™s a super risky move and youre better off choosing a direct admission program, especially when youā€™d qualify for UTD which for CS SPECIFICALLY is as good or better than TAMU.

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Getting a 3.75 GPA in college is typically a lot harder than getting a 3.75 GPA in high school.

At a more selective university like Texas A&M, students who had high school GPAs in the 3.7(?)-4.0 range get spread out across the 2.0(or lower)-4.0 range in college.

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remember if you transfer youā€™ll lose any school specific scholarships, generally transfer scholarships are less plentiful and less generous than those geared for incoming freshmen. In some schools it can be very hard to transfer into CS programs.

I thought you said you needed ā€œfull aidā€ will A&M provide full tuition and room and board?

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