<p>How competitive are out-of-state admissions at Texas A&M? Are they as competitive as U of Texas-Austin?</p>
<p>They aren't as competitive as UT</p>
<p>OOS admission for UT is completely insane</p>
<p>My S and his friend were both admitted to UT (as well as A&M) from OOS. They both were in the top 5% and made over 1400 M+CR.</p>
<p>GPA:
W: 3.667
UW: 3.62</p>
<p>ACT: 31</p>
<p>E: 34, R: 31, M: 33, S: 27</p>
<p>^ Would that be good enough for OOS admission?</p>
<p>ur class rank?</p>
<p>My school doesn't rank...
My high school is fairly average though... Each year, 2 - 3 students go to ivy-league/equivalent, a fair amount go to UVA/equivalent...</p>
<p>Oh cuz UT looks @ Class Rank 1st, then the SAT, then other stuff.
You should prolly contact the addmission office.</p>
<p>I was talking about Texas A&M, not UT.</p>
<p>I think you would have a very good chance. Roughly 52% of incoming freshmen this year were top 10% in-staters (UT is 92% from what I understand, so much harder to get in). They are really trying to recruit from OOS at TAMU. They said they have a lot of in-coming freshmen from CA, FL, OK, LA, and IL this year.</p>
<p>Texas A&M does not base admission on whether you are in-state or OOS. I talked with an admission counselor the other day, and she told me it's a blind admission process. Meaning, they don't care who you are or where you came from.</p>
<p>Gig'em, Zach</p>
<p>From what they said at the NSC, it does not sound too blind to me. After the 50+% from top 10% in-state, they said at the conference that they were able to pick and choose. Naturally, most of the enrollment is from in-state, but they specifically noted, and were very proud btw, of the enrollment from other states with the highest concentration being from the states I mentioned earlier. Also, every person I know and met at the conference from OOS was given some type of scholarship (the smallest to waive OOS tuition), and most that I know were not NMF or NMSF. They do recruit heavily once the Commended list goes out; no blinders there.</p>
<p>It's not blind, Z4CHH was mistaken. OOS students have a tougher chance.</p>
<p>On a more positive note, all that applied from my S's school, made it. Most were top 10%. One was maybe top 25%, but the SAT was nearly perfect. I would try to bring up your ACT up another couple of points tho. Test scores seem to be very important.</p>
<p>They do look at whether you're in or out of state. OOS definitely have a tougher chance, not to mention the 10% rule still isn't abolished quite yet.</p>
<p>gstein, this is a quite debatable subject, I explicitly asked an admission counselor last week (straight in her face), "Do OOS have a harder chance of getting in?" She told me, "It's a blind admission process". Now whether it really is or not, I don't know. It's possible that these counselor's are a little biased.</p>
<p>They may very well be blind, but statistically with the top 10% rule OOS applicants are at a disadvantage compared to in-state.</p>
<p>I would argue that top 10% rule puts everyone not under top 10% at a disadvantage. For in-state applicants, it leaves less room. For OOS it doesn't apply to them so they are in the same boat as the non-10% in-state applicants.</p>