<p>Just curious. This week I was reading in our school library's USNews or Kaplan magazine under the Texas A&M info. It stated that only 3% of acceptances last year were from out of state. Is this true? If so, I can only imagine what the criteria must be to be accepted. Any information or thoughts about the chances of a future student applicant who is from out of the state of Texas would be interesting to read about.</p>
<p>Hmm...I would assume so yes.</p>
<p>For one, a lot of slots are taken up by the Top 10% (a completely bogus system btw) rule of Texas.</p>
<p>You're going to have to be a stellar applicant to be accepted from out of state. It seems every high school kid in Texas wants to attend UT or A&M, and the schools are overburdened. A&M already has one of worst teacher/student ratios of any university.</p>
<p>The top 10% rule (every Texas student who graduates in the top 10% of his/her class is guaranteed admission into one of the 2 state flagship universities) means that you have kids who are accepted who come from low-performing schools. Maybe they'll work really hard and do fine, but maybe they won't because they just aren't prepared. The reason for the top 10% rule is to increase minority enrollment.</p>
<p>It's a tough problem, because many minority students attend low-performing schools and aren't prepared for a top-notch university, yet you don't want to deny them the chance. One thing I heard that they are doing is that they have a dorm for students who receive the Opportunity Award (I think that's the one...it's a needs based scholarship). They provide tutors and extra help there so that these students can hopefully be successful.</p>
<p>i really don't think it's 3%... out of state has a lower yield rate than instate applicants, and A&M is at least 5% out of state. it would have to be closer to 10% since not as many of them matriculate. right?</p>
<p>Thanks for the replies. It will be a couple of years before we really get down to business in looking into schools, but Texas A&M has a tremendous reputation for several of the areas that my son is considering for a career and is one that he liked the looks of as he was looking into career interests. I was just curious as to whether he should even consider it, given those stats. He is a strong student, but as to whether he could manage getting in with a 3% acceptance rate.....</p>
<p>Well, you never know until you try.</p>
<p>Worst case scenario is you lose 50 bucks.</p>
<p>its not a 3% acceptance rate. i believe 3% of the student body is from out of state. that doesnt mean anything as far as acceptance rate, because they dont even say what % of applications were from out of state. according to my cousin who went to texas a&m, the schools only allow 5% of the student body maximum to be non-texans.</p>
<p>i got in from out of state.........wanting to join the corps helps alot</p>