<p>My son is interested. Anyone know anything about it? Would A&M be a better choice if a person is interested in geology or something related to the environment?</p>
<p>I don't have first hand experience, but a friend of mine is a Geology Major and he loves it. The school has a huge amount of funding, and they hand out scholarships for being in the school. As far as I can tell, he is 100% satisfied with Jackson School of Geosciences. I think A&M's geosciences school might be comparable, but Jackson has so much more funding which means more resources, and probably a better learning experience.</p>
<p>Thanks, foxshox</p>
<p>I am planning on doing an internal transfer to the jackson school next year and when I talked to one of the advisors he said they were the second best school in the country. They also give out a certain amount of scholership money to everyone, but the higher your gpa the more you get.</p>
<p>Any idea what that gpa/$ amount correlation is? And do you mean HS GPA or college GPA as a transfer? Why did you decide to transfer?</p>
<p>Well I know they base the scholarship amount(for the next year) based on your first year GPA, for my friend anyways.</p>
<p>for freshman its gpa of 3.0-3.24 $750 3.25-3.49 $1150 3.5-3.74 $2250 3.75-4 $3000</p>
<p>Its a bit more in every gategory as you go up to sophmore junior and senior.
I don't feel like listing it but that will give u a good idea for your freshman year. You should go see a geology advisor so he can give you the information packets with all of this info.</p>
<p>He's just a rising junior so plenty of time to contact the school. Thanks for the info. He's also not going to be in top 10% at his school, so even getting into UT will be a crapshoot, but he has a 4.2 and his school is something of a feeder to UT, so we're hoping.</p>
<p>If you aren't top ten, Geosciences is the place you want to apply.</p>
<p>Really? That's good to know! We haven't even done the official tour so I know I'll find this kind of thing out once we start really looking at UT. I appreciate y'all letting me pick your brains.</p>
<p>He's also looking at some pricey private schools, but he already bleeds burnt orange, so my biggest challenge will getting him to apply to A&M, where he would be an academic admit under the top quarter/1300 SAT provision.</p>
<p>Hey, it occurs to me -- if geosciences is easier to get into, what does that say about the students???</p>
<p>Its easy to get into simply because not alot of people are interested in geology, not because the quality of students. If he really wants to do geology the Colarado school of mines is the best school and UT is definitly in the top 10 schools if not second best.</p>
<p>Gotcha. Didn't mean that as an insult. ;) I noticed onthe website there were fewer than 200 undergrads, if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>He got some kind of info from the School of Mines in the spring, but that was when he was getting tons of mail every day. I guess we should go dig it out. A mom on here has some experience with the school, and the one thing that doesn't sound like a fit is that it's quite focused. Is that right? I think he likes the idea of a liberal arts education, too, do he wouldn't want to be at a place where there was no sociology, political science, etc. I'll go dig that literature out of the "college box" right now.</p>
<p>just out of curiosity, how can a school be a feeder to UT? it's really more just top 10% people deciding to go there...</p>
<p>I'll PM you.</p>
<p>Well it can be a feeder school when more than just the top 10% people do well on standardized tests and have good ECs. With my high school, we had a lot of smart kids who did well on the SATs, but the top 10% was taken up. We had about 750 kids in our class, and 50 of us went to UT and 50 of us went to A&M, and we had like 10-15 go to Ivy's, so that breaks the top 10% quite a bit.</p>