If you or your applicant is considering going strait Blinn Bryan http://www.blinn.edu/bryan-campus/index.html#bry http://www.blinn.edu/future-students/index.html or Rellis and applying to transfer to Texas A&M, here are some guidelines you will need to follow. The Rellis campus allows for seamless transitions to A&M System Schools in specific majors http://www.blinn.edu/RELLIS
You will apply to Blinn independently through Apply Texas and submit all of the required documentation and wait to be accepted. You will indicate on your application your desired campus.
This is the current undergraduate course catalog. The 2019-2020 course catalog will be out sometime in May.
http://catalog.tamu.edu/undergraduate/#text
Chose the Department/College you are considering and click on it.
You will be taken to a page that shows the OVERVIEW, MAJORS, MINORS, CERTIFICATES, MASTERS, and DOCTORAL
degrees offered for that department.
If you click on the MAJORS tab, all majors offered in that College are listed.
Click on your desired major
Now you are presented with an overview of the program
Now click on program requirements.
These are the program requirements for the major.
You will also want to follow the Transfer Course Sheet for the specific major you want to be considered for. Remember, the department you are applying to will review a transfer application, not admissions.
http://admissions.tamu.edu/transfer/majors
Find your specific major and the Transfer Course Sheet will explain what is required, what classes will satisfy the course requirements, the number of minimum graded hours and maximum hours.
Clicking on the Major name will take you to the homepage of that Department/major at TAMU.
Clicking on the Course Sheet will take you to the specific Course Sheet to follow.
Minimum requirements are just that. The minimums to be able to apply to transfer. A competitive applicant for transfer will well excede the minimums in GPA and courses completed.
The Transfer Course Sheet will also list the Common Course Numbers that apply to the corresponding courses at A&M. If a class you want to take listed in the course catalog does not have a common course number, Blinn nor Rellis will have an equivalency to it so best to stay away from it.
• You should choose courses that match your major
Advisors do not want students accepting AP credit for courses without first meeting with an Advisor. AP is good for most University Core Curriculum classes. Some majors require that specific courses be taken on campus etc, so never accept them without advising. If the event you later want to change majors/change of curriculum, if you have claimed too many credits from the get go, you could be over the limit of the intended major.
University Core Curriculum Description
http://catalog.tamu.edu/undergraduate/general-information/university-core-curriculum/
Core Curriculum look up
http://core.tamu.edu/
This is a list of AP tests and what courses they can claim credit for
http://testing.tamu.edu/TestingServices/media/Media/PDFs/AP.pdf
The transfer Course Equivalency site is always useful if a course at any other college or university has an equivalent one at TAMU or visa versa.
https://compassxe-ssb.tamu.edu/HCA/ssb/transferCourseEquivalency/#!/
Blinn College Bryan Campus and Rellis Campus do not have on campus housing and you cannot live in Texas A&M dorms or university apartments. There are apartments all over Bryan and College Station, many on bus routes or provide a shuttle if they are not on a designated route.
You can find out the transfer from blinn ro College Station for any College and Degree by putting in the specific parameters.
https://dars.tamu.edu/Student/Enrollment-Profile
I am sure there is plenty I have forgotten so please add to this thread and feel free to ask questions and also post your first hand experience and/or information that you have.
