<p>eyemgh: There are pros and cons to the question of class rank but the fact is that it is the law in Texas and has a lot of impact on admission to Texas colleges. </p>
<p>Perazziman: I hear what you are saying and I understand your frustration because I argued the point (unsuccessfully) when our district changed the policy about how advanced class MS grades would be counted in the HS GPA. In our district the decision was made mid semester so there was no signing up for the class in an informed way. The teachers didn’t even know the change was made until a mom, me, informed her. This really didn’t have significant negative impact on my S’s GPA but for him it was only one class in question. While there probably is nothing in this that can help your son, while I made my points hypothetically you have real numbers that clearly illustrate the problem with your school districts system of calculation. You see it clearly because it is your kid. Adminstrators are looking at the masses and if no one mentions the problem they think it is all good. They really need to see those numbers!..As for TAMU I know for scholarships they look favorably on any SAT score (MandV) that is above 1350. This is what I was told when my son was applying. To that end if there is any delay getting the new score out, that application probably should go in ASAP. You should probably discuss the situation with admissions at TAMU but based on what I know about TAMU your son would be in with a scholarship even without the better score on the SAT. The scholarship decisions come later so even if you apply now the new score would be considered for scholarshipsif it was entered later, with the NM credentials it might not even matter what the SAT score is. The biggest problem that I think that your S has with admission is that engineering majors fill quickly and EE may already be full or nearly full. There is a professor who is over the university honors program at TAMU who sometimes posts on the TAMU forum. His name and contact information are in the opening post of this thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/texas-m-university/1374597-tamu-freshman-honors-application-open.htm[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/texas-m-university/1374597-tamu-freshman-honors-application-open.htm</a>. Perhaps he can help you. I think however your first question needs to be with the EE to see if the program is full. (or whomever can get you that information). Good Luck, It seems that no matter what your S has done really well and will land on his feet :)</p>