<p>My son got the CAP offer from UT. He has been accepted to A&M. Anyone else get CAP?
Any advise from current or former CAP students? Thanks</p>
<p>I got capped as well. Going to UTSA then transferring over, nbd. Saves thousands of dollars.</p>
<p>Capped.
Top 11%
4.0 GPA
28 act</p>
<p>Accepted to Mays back in oct.</p>
<p>Can one appeal CAP? I got into A&M but I really want to go to UT and I have no interest in wasting a year at any other UT system school.</p>
<p>I don’t know if you can appeal CAP??? What are your stats??
My son has 3.96 gpa puts him right around 25%. 32 act. 1870 sat, plenty of ap, 4,s & 5,s.
work and lot of volunteer. At this point, it probably is a done deal. He is not sure he wants to sit is SA for a year either. I say, take A&M, it is a very good school.</p>
<p>Apparently, one is guaranteed admission to Austin with a 3.2 GPA. In addition, it is easier, as a freshman, to get scholarships at the other UT colleges than Austin. so not sure what is the downside with CAP.</p>
<p>With CAP you are not guaranteed your major of choice so if you have already been admitted to a competitive major at another school such as A & M, it would probably be wise to take the A&M offer. If you are seeking a major that is not as competitive and your dream is to go to UT, take the CAP offer.</p>
<p>Good point Although, one is also not guaranteed acceptance to a major of choice with UGS (undergrad studies). So, that is really an issue beyond just CAP.</p>
<p>I would say if you are trying to get into Engineering or Business then you should go to the best college that accepts you in this major. If that is not UT, then it is probably time to move on. It is very difficult to transfer into these majors at UT. We have already accepted A&M’s offer to Mays.</p>
<p>I was CAP’d at UT and accepted into both the business and engineering colleges at A&M. I chose to attend the engineering program at A&M and subsequently applied for transfer to UT. </p>
<p>Excluding scholarship offers from respective schools, I think the financial disparity between CAP attendance and A&M is negligible. The biggest consideration is coursework, I think. If your son is going into freshman year with a good deal of AP credit (enough to satisfy a substantial portion of core degree requirements) I would recommend attending A&M.</p>
<p>The CAP programs contracts a bunch of contingencies as to what classes can or cannot be taken and what will transfer. It’s pretty constricting, but it is a guarantee of admission. If you need to take those general first-year classes and think you might not be able to cut the 3.2 elsewhere do CAP.</p>
<p>OTOH, at A&M I was free to take whatever classes I wanted in addition to specific engineering coursework that I would not have been able to take at a CAP school (I had friends in the CAP situation who could not do so and bemoaned the fact that they were stuck using up elective credits because they couldn’t get into the engineering classes). Additionally, A&Ms AP credit standards are a little more lax, so I claimed credit from those tests that transferred to UT as a class from A&M that would otherwise have not been accepted at UT as a raw test score.</p>
<p>Finally, the “experience” at A&M will be different than that of a CAP school. While the CAP schools are fine institutions (most of them), the students there are of a different type than those at A&M. I won’t rag on CAP schools, but A&M is a great school, with a great sense of community and tradition and will probably be able to offer a more substantial and fulfilling freshman year for all those intangible aspects than a CAP school.</p>
<p>Attending A&M does not preclude the possibility of a transfer. Your situation is unique and differs from mine, but (saying this as a longhorn, too) I would recommend A&M over a CAP school.</p>
<p>My feelings exactly, Thanks so much for the great info, I will pass it on to him.</p>
<p>Pardon my primitive, vulgar word choice, but UT’s Office of Admissions can go screw themselves. I applied on September 30th, with a ranking which placed me in the top 8.1%, and I wait all this time to get denied, but was offered this hardly reassuring alternative. A&M took all of two weeks to respond to my application, so forget UT; A&M is just as good as UT, anyway. Unless you guys are fine with potentially sacrificing your major preference, and consequently, your potential career, “settle” with giving A&M a chance next year.</p>
<p>Thanks for you insight mnaacd. </p>
<p>So, the bottom line, if you have the option to attend A&M Engineering or Business, take it over CAP or UGS, even if you want to transfer to Cockrell or McCombs later.</p>
<p>Doro15, do you mind posting your stats?</p>
<p>MMACD - Can I ask why you decided to transfer from A&M to UT?</p>
<p>Several reasons:</p>
<p>First and foremost, I decided to switch from EE to CS. The UTCS program is leaps and bounds ahead of A&Ms so there wasn’t much of a decision to be made there.
The UT system is unparalleled in the state in terms of the wealth of resources and opportunities available to students. There was a lot going on at A&M, but there’s so much more going on at UT (but of course, as with any school, the responsibility to seek out and utilize these things falls on the student).
And there was just a personal preference. I grew up in Austin, love the city, and the school, so this is where I wanted to be. The decision was pro-UT, not anything against A&M.</p>
<p>@perazziman: If you’re into UGS I would probably take that and work towards an internal transfer to the college of your choice. Internal transfers aren’t too difficult and you can just fill out your core requirements first year while you build a GPA to apply.
If your heart isn’t set on UT though doing engineering at A&M isn’t by any stretch of the imagination a bad move. It really comes down to personal preference there regarding environment, culture, etc., as the programs are comparably equivalent. Business might be another story though.</p>
<p>Son accepted his A&M offer this afternoon, College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science. Forget CRAP, opps I meant CAP.</p>
<p>Capmom…I guess it’s too late since your son already made his decision, but for anyone else in the same boat, let me give my .02. </p>
<p>My son had the exact same thing…accepted to A&M and CAP’d at UT. In one week we visited both A&M and UTSA and it was a no-brainer for him. He went to UTSA for a year, got only 1 B the whole time and was accepted into Mechanical Engineering for sophomore year at UT. He doesn’t regret a thing and I truly believe it was the best decision for him. He got a great solid start at UTSA and had the goal of a great GPA to reach Austin.</p>