<p>Planned major: English or Journalism
Plans to attend either a bgct or sbc seminary after undergrad.
Current junior in TX
GPA:3.0 UW-Estimate(we use a 120 scale)
SAT:1310/2050(630 M,680 CR,740 W)
PSAT:222(66 M,78 W,78 CR)
AP:World History:5
German:4
Taking English Language and USH this year
Courses:
FR:English I,Algebra 1, WD Geography PAP, German 1, German 2, Cross Country,PAP Biology
SO:Geometry, Algebra 2, PAP English 2, AP Wd History, German 3 PAP, German 4 AP, Health, Speech, PAP Chemistry
JR:LEAP English 3 AP, LEAP USH AP, Pathophysiology, Physics PAP, AP Statistics, AP Psychology, Choir, Webmastering
SR(Planned): AP Comparative govt, AP govt, Ap Macroeconomics, Ap Microeconomics, Ap Biology, Ind Study, LEAP English 4 AP, Choir</p>
<p>Activities: (Mostly centered around church)
Youth Worship Leader FBC Lewisville
11:11 Guitarist FBC Lewisville
SLT FBC Lewisville
Currently coordinating music festival with FBC for "Invisible Children" of Uganda</p>
<p>*LEAP is the G/T program in LISD, been in program since 2nd grade, took 2 years off.</p>
<p>Tamu doesn't have a journalism major right now- but it does have an ag journalism major. Go figure. :-P </p>
<p>I'm assuming 222 was NM this year, right? That's definitely a good thing.</p>
<p>Does your school rank? How does that look? You might want to consider getting involved in some activities that are more broad in interest, like sports or german club or something, but I still think you look good so far. Also random, but since you are studying German, I just went to Germany on through one of my classes for Liberal Arts majors (which you would be)! Btw, what is pathophysiology?</p>
<p>RelientR,
TAMU automatically admits you with a 1300 or over on the Critical Reading + Math sections of the SAT. Since this was the first year with the new SAT, they didn't include the score for the writing section. I don't know if they will include it next year and move the automatic admittance to the 2400 scale. On the TAMU website, if you do a search for "academic admittance" or "academic admission", I think you'll find info about this. It's in the same area where they talk about top 10% automatic admission.</p>
<p>By the way, I'd <em>highly</em> recommend that you attend Impact, a Christian retreat for incoming freshmen at TAMU that is held right before school starts your freshman year. It's a great way to connect with other Christians in such a big school.</p>
<p>relientr: I noticed your post about just getting back from Germany. That's why I had an idea you were in the Cornerstone program. My son was invited to apply to Cornerstone for fall '06. He attended Cornerstone Day March 3 and it was very informative! He has already sent his application in and is waiting to hear. I know it is very competitive though. I think they were told that about 100 will apply this year. How do you like it so far? And how was Berlin (they told us ya'll were going there). Was competition pretty tough when you were accepted???</p>
<p>I'm not sure- they didn't ever tell us how competitive it was our year. I do know that about 1/3 of the class got dropped after the first semester because of grade requirements, though, so it might be in that way. I really love it so far- you become such good friends with everyone in the class, and Dr. Curtis is a great resource. He invites us over to his house for dinner, and we have movie night sometime, and it's a lot of fun. It is hard work second semester though. First is only 1 hr, and it is guest lecture based, but the second is much tougher. We read an 850 page book on Berlin's history (which actually turned out to be really interesting after the first 200 pages lol) and we do a 30 minute presentation and a 12 page research paper. The thing is though, you hate doing the work but then about half way into it you realize that its actually fascinating and that you love what you're learning. It isn't Germany every year, students get to vote on about 5 choices of where they want to go and study- our second choice was Rome. I hope your son is accepted! Even if he isn't though, the LBAR 181 regular prof is a character and guaranteed to not be boring. ;-)</p>
<p>Hi relientr...thank you for all the info.! My son loves to read and write so I don't think it would be a problem for him. He's majoring in English. And Dr. Curtis was very helpful and informative. Also, about LBAR...are you talking about Dr. Brooks by chance???? He lectured on Cornerstone Day. We all loved him...highly entertaining! I knew you didn't go to the same country every year for spring break. He said it's pretty much student-led. I knew they had been to Paris, Amsterdam, and Prague. My son visited Prague last summer and loved it! He's going to Switzerland and Italy (Naples, Venice, Rome) this summer. I thought 1/3 to be dropped was a lot. I was surprised about that. I figured the kids in the program would be pretty much "cream of the crop". If he does happen to get accepted, are the new kids set up with some kind of a mentor or anything? Do the Cornerstone people help you in registering for classes in any way...as far as getting good profs. and so? He's a bit concerned about registration already. He was supposed to go to one of the student orientations in June because of scholarship info. offered at those sessions. He got online to sign up for June 1 & 2 and it was already full! He leaves for Europe right after that and won't be home 'til the end of June. Needless to say, he couldn't get orientation until July 6/7. He's worried about getting the classes he wants with the good profs. I guess it will all work out though. What did you do your research on in Germany??? Sorry to be so longwinded!! Thank you much for your help relientr!!!</p>
<p>hahaha- yeah, I was talking about Dr. Brooks :-)
Wow your son is lucky... I would love to get to Switzerland! Is he by any chance doing Italy through the honors program? I did that last summer and it was fantastic! The third wasn't because the program was pruning or anything, it was simply too many students didn't make the required GPR. And I think that IS because they were the cream of the crop. It's very easy to get cocky first semester and think you don't have to go to class or do homework and then fail a test at the end of the semester and drop a letter grade. There are no assigned mentors, but there are plenty of on-campus advising or mentoring programs for freshman- its just an issue of being willing to ask for help. Dr. Curtis does keep a close eye on grades, though, and he had us in to talk to him about goals/etc. and will monitor midterms. As far as registering for classes- for the spring it is easier because you have seen a lot of professors as guest lecturers in CS and can tell if they are for you or not; for the first semester not really. I'm sure he would be more than happy to help if you called and asked specifically, though. I would definitely recommend using pickaprof.com because it has all the official grades from past years and student reviews. As far as the NSC, I was originally scheduled for late August and asked to be put on a waiting list and enough people dropped that I got in a month and a half earlier. Mention the necessity of hearing honors-specific info in the first NSC's and that might help too. I'm premed, so I'm doing my Germany research on medical experimentation by the Nazis and the impact on bioethics (informed consent; would using the info obtained in this terrible way condone it; etc.). And just a side note on Impact- it is frequently referred to as the Christian organizations' fish camp. I didn't go, but all my friends who went loved it.</p>
<p>relientr...thanks for all the great info. you provided. My son is actually going to Switz. and Italy with his girlfriend's family this summer. She came with us to Prague last summer and he with her to Hawaii as well last summer. You could say he loves to travel and is very fortunate to be able to do this. He also would love to teach in Europe sometime after graduation. Your research sounds very fascinating...in fact, we just watched a TV program this week on that very subject. We also learned a bit about that when we visited Terezin, a concentration camp outside of Prague. Fasicinating. Would you happen to know how we can find out about Impact? Well, cross your fingers for my S. on getting into the program! We hope it won't be much longer than a couple more weeks waiting. The apps. aren't due until this Friday, but he got his in already. Thanks again.</p>
<p>I'm not sure what you mean by "intels". Do you mean international students? If so, I would think they would still have to go through the whole International Student process. The automatic admittance is only for Texas residents, if I'm not mistaken.</p>
<p>About the 1300 SAT and top 25% of class....our son was homeschooled and had no class rank. He received a notice of automatic admission when TAMU received his SAT scores, which was before he even applied.</p>