Chance me OOS tuition waiver?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Texas A&M University
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<p>I live in Tulsa, OK going to Jenks High School. What are my chances on being admitted to Texas A&M and also my chances of getting an out of state tuition waiver? As of now I am planning on majoring in aerospace engineering.</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>School doesnt rank (note: about 800 people in my grade)
3.95 UW GPA about 4.1 W
29 ACT (w/o studying now am studying a lot and am hoping for 32 in Sept.)</p>

<p>AP classes:
Calc BC
Calc 3/Intro Diff eq
Linear Algebra/Adv Diff eq
Chemistry
Environmental Science
Physics B
Psychology
Computer Science A</p>

<p>dual enrollment:
Tulsa Community College- Comp1/Comp2</p>

<p>ECs:
Football: 9-12
Basketball:9-10
Baseball:9
about 50 community service hours</p>

<p>clubs:
Stuco- Student counsil- member
Student Body leadrship- Boy Representative
DFY- drug free youth- member
Engineering club- Founder/President</p>

<p>Also, would I have a decent chance at all to be admitted into the Honors College? I am not a National Merit Scholar. </p>

<p>Thanks for any help.</p>

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<p>Guess I’ll try this then. BUMP !</p>

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<p>I’ll just say that there was a girl from my high school (in Arizona) did NOT get an OOS waiver, and she had a 4.7x GPA and at least 100 hours of volunteering at the end of the 7th semester.</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure getting admitted to the Honors College depends on only your essays.
As a National Merit Scholar, I did not apply because they require you to live in an expensive dorm for those accepted.</p>

<p>Other possibilities:
[Scholarships</a> | Texas A&M Corps of Cadets](<a href=“http://corps.tamu.edu/scholarships]Scholarships”>scholarships)
[University</a> Scholars](<a href=“http://honors.tamu.edu/Honors/UScholars.html]University”>http://honors.tamu.edu/Honors/UScholars.html)</p>

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<p>If you get the 32, I think you have a decent chance of being accepted.</p>

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<p>@Hillo: What was your friends other stats? I’m hoping it’s a good possibility for me to get a $1000 scholarship for OOS tuition to be waived.</p>

<p>And hopefully I won’t NEED that 32 just to get in… anyone else? BUMP</p>

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<p>You’re going to need more than a 30 to get in. I know many Texas kids with a 29 that were not accepted. And guess where several of them went? OU.</p>

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<p>Getting in, you should be very competitive. Getting an OOS waiver might be much more difficult unless you’re an NMF. GL regardless, A&M is a great school.</p>

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<p>Thanks so far.
To add: Is it harder for out of state student to get accepted at A&M? Does anyone know the acceptance rate for out of state students?</p>

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<p>Since they over admitted for 2013-2014 , Im guessing it will be tougher this year to get admitted. Don’t know how they will tighten controls. may need higher than a 29 if not auto admit or not close to top 10%.</p>

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<p>Your school not ranking complicates things. If you rank in the top 25%, and you get a 30, scoring high enough on each component, then you’re in.</p>

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<p>Hmmm…I’ll be applying for the Fall of 2014 and that does not sound good.</p>

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<p>Your gpa is great. I would talk to my HS counselor and ask for help. Tell him/her that TAMU admits heavily based on rank. They may not give you an exact rating , but might give you a percentile .</p>

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<p>TAMU’s freshman student body was recently about 4.7% OOS students.</p>

<p><a href=“http://dars.tamu.edu/dars/files/9e/9e68d93f-f7aa-4b92-8b67-cd11dd654cf9.pdf[/url]”>http://dars.tamu.edu/dars/files/9e/9e68d93f-f7aa-4b92-8b67-cd11dd654cf9.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
Page 168</p>

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<p>I would guess the majority of that 4.7% are academic admits.</p>

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<p>It won’t help the OP, as there are places in the state of OK with aerospace engineering major, but for instance, I am from AR where there is no AE degree.</p>

<p>I ought to be able to apply for a OOS waiver in some states—southern region.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.sreb.org/page/1304/[/url]”>Academic Common Market - Southern Regional Education Board;

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<p>Thanks everyone. Anybody else? BUMP</p>

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<p>I have two OOS students, one was an academic admit but no scholarship offer that qualified for the waiver (stats slightly higher than yours, similar EC, top 10%) the other was academic admit with scholarship offer & honors ( higher stats, more EC, several awards, top5%). Your offers come AFTER admission decision. You compete with all those admitted both within your major and the university as a whole for scholarships. IF you have qualified need (determined by FAFSA), your chances are better as you can compete for more scholarships versus just the merit ones. Both students were also selected for outside merit scholarships but those don’t count for the waiver. Hope this helps - there isn’t a stat scale that guarantees scholarships like some schools have. In my opinion, the OOS waivers are very competitive.</p>