Does anybody know what percentage the automatic admits take up? I heard maybe 80%

Colleges and Universities A-Z Texas A&M University
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<p>which wouldn't leave many spots for "normal" kids like mine</p>

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<p>automatic admits (including both top 10% kids and academic admits) make up 50% of the incoming class. the other 50% are review students. </p>

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<p>According to the common data set for last year 78% of the freshman class were in the top 25% of their high school class. I could not find data that breaks the numbers into auto admits vs the academic admits. I would think most of the 78% is auto and academic admits. </p>

<p>For 2013-2014
Applicants: 31,388
Admitted: 21,725
Enrolled: 10,241</p>

<p>These numbers are for College Station and Galveston combined.</p>

<p>Less than half of the admits enroll. A&M has an average acceptance rate of about 69% and an enrollment rate of just under 50%.</p>

<p>I know it makes many applicants mad knowing that over half of the admitted students don’t enroll but instead go somewhere else. But that happens at all colleges. </p>

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<p>I wonder if not able to get into TAMU as incoming freshman, can you go to one of the TAMU system and have a better chance to then transfer in 2nd semester freshman year or 1st semester sophomore year (or summer after freshman year?) Of if you have a community college to go to first, or go to the one in Bryan/College Station, Blinn. Talk to admissions at TAMU or in the dept your student wants to major in.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://dars.tamu.edu/dars/files/7e/7e8767c7-28ee-4be2-a9af-44cf44d45f36.pdf”>http://dars.tamu.edu/dars/files/7e/7e8767c7-28ee-4be2-a9af-44cf44d45f36.pdf&lt;/a&gt; Chart for Fall 2013 from Texas A&M data. Only breaks down top 10%auto admits. Figures were: 30065 applications 20745 Admits (10334 of those were top 10% TX only… the rest combo of academic & review) enrolled 9710 (5293 of those top 10%).</p>

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<p>Based on some additional data : in 2013-2014 of the 9710 enrolled students:</p>

<p>8420 were in the top 25% (meeting one of the criteria of academic admission) --maximum of 87% eligible to be academic/auto admits,</p>

<p>5293 being top 10% TX
3127 are potential academic admits ( OOS 1- 25%, TX 11-25%)</p>

<p>1290 ( a minimum of 13%) HAVE to be review candidates (26%-99% rank)</p>

<p>Data wasn’t listed to link scores & class rank.</p>

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<p>Adding on to what Agmom provided…</p>

<p>Of those enrolled for 2013-2014, roughly 2600 had composite SAT/ACT scores that meet the academic admit criteria. If none of the top 10% met that criteria (unlikely, but for the sake of discussion), then at most, 2600 of the 3127 are academic admits.</p>

<p>so, 1817 ( a minimum of 19%) have to be review candidates (26% or lower rank and/or less than 1300/30 combined test scores. </p>

<p>Pushing it a bit further, the mean National SAT score for the top decile is 1181. A&M reports an SAT average of 1188 for the top quarter of FTIC students, so we can probably assume the top 10% at A&M matches the national distribution. Also, the University average is 1192, so for grins, let use the SAT score distribution for the freshman class as the distribution for top 10%. If that’s the case, then 20% of the top 10 scored over 1300. Those are counted as top 10% admits. 1058 of the 2600 scores over 1300/30 are 10%s leaving 1541 or so academic admit potentials.</p>

<p>So, review candidates are probably in the range of 1290+(3127-1541)= 2876 or 30%. This is reasonable considering Jon Buchanan said that they were likely to make 5000 admittance offers out of holistic review.</p>

<p>A very long way to say that automatic admits make up around 70% of the freshman class.</p>

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<p>I believe out of those 5,000 review students offered admission, only a little less than half are offered full admission. The rest are offered Blinn or Gateway.</p>

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<p>Sounds like 70% automatic admits and 30% reviews? </p>

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<p>Updated admissions profile for class of 2018: <a href=“http://admissions.tamu.edu/freshman/profile”>http://admissions.tamu.edu/freshman/profile&lt;/a&gt;
Using c/o 2017 enrollment percentages and assuming academic admits accept at the same rate as top 10’s you’d wind up with 7281 auto admits and 3100 review enrollments. So yeah, 70/30 looks right.</p>

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<p>Thanks but can you explain why their numbers dont add up? They show a total of 21,676 admits. But if I add up all the categories around the circle I get 30,676. That’s 9,000 more which seems to be the PSA slice. So maybe they don’t count PSA people as admits?</p>

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<p>You are correct- PSA offers do not count as admits. </p>