After completing PACE for one year, if i get rejected form my first choice major and I apply to Texas A&M again, am I applying as a student from ACC or UT Austin? Do you think TexasA&M would accept me at this point?(for a competitive major such as engineering)
@punctiliouseye Common wisdom has it that engineering is almost impossible to get into from PACE or CAP. If that is your intention then you should probably be looking at better options. It is too late to apply for the fall term at A&M, but UH, UTD, and Texas Tech all have respectable engineering programs and are still accepting applications for next year (need to hurry on TTU). If engineering is your goal, I would recommend that you secure a place in one of these universities and then apply as a transfer student next year to both UT-Austin and A&M. That way you are still going to be on track for your engineering degree in the highly plausible scenario that neither has space for you as a transfer student next year either.
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Do you have quantitative data or information from an “insider” about the difficulty of transferring in to UT engineering? Do you think if I have a 4.3 w gpa, around top 10% from high school, 2350 SAT, and around a 4.0 at ACC I would get in? I have committed myself to working hard onward and in college but I’m worried about space/availability.
I was accepted to A&M. Do you think PACE is worse than A&M in terms of transferring to UT?
@Punctilious what major do you want to transfer into ? in engineering … that matters A LOT
@punctiliouseye wrote “Do you think if I have a 4.3 w gpa, around top 10% from high school, 2350 SAT…”
Once you begin college/university study anywhere (as PACE, CAP, or traditional transfer) your old high school record and SAT scores are of almost no interest to UT admissions. The entering freshman and transfer student admission paradigms are completely separate, and they will consider you based primarily on your post-secondary record.