@Thelma2 Thanks for the info on the Blinn TEAM pathways.
My Darling Daughter just heard tonight that she was offered Blinn TEAM. She is a bit sad, she really wanted full admissions, and today is her 18th Birthday and I had hoped for only good news on her Birthday. I wish that TAMU had waited until tomorrow to offer her Blinn TEAM so that her Birthday didn’t end on a sad note. I think that she will accept Blinn TEAM, but she feels embarrassed that she wasn’t offered full admissions.I told her that I am really proud of her, that TAMU has to accept all of the 10% students, but that they WANTED her, they just don’t have room for all of the students that they want so they offer them other ways to get to be an Aggie.
Her older sister, Aggie Class of '16, was full admission after review. But her sister was top 27% with a couple more AP classes, slightly higher SAT and gpa, a leadership position on a varsity team and more volunteer hours, mainly in the Summers. But DD#2 wasn’t able to go on volunteer mission trips in the Summers due to our vacation and other family plans and surgery during one Summer. And this school has gotten more competitive each year, since her older sister’s year, with some students taking classes at tutoring places during the Summer (and paying a bunch of money) so that they don’t have to study for those classes during the school year. Bizarre, but true.
Darling Daughter #2 stats:
Sent in application right after Thanksgiving, a few days before Dec. 1, 2016.
Wants to be an English Major, not sure what she will do with it, possibly go on to get a Graduate Degree or PhD and teach at the High School or college level.
SAT: 1250, with 670 in CR (and would have qualified for TAMU English Honors Department if she had been in top 25%)
ACT: 26, with 31 in Reading
She did not take any SAT/ACT review classes as she didn’t have time with all of her EC time commitments, so those are her true scores. She took each test twice but with very little difference in the scores.
She is 53rd percentile in very competitive neighborhood zoned school, which is in the top 5 highest average SAT scores for public schools in TX. At this school, you can have above a 3.5 UW gpa and not be in the top 50%. And I know of several students with nearly perfect SAT scores who are not in the top 10%. Another “Bizarre but true” fact.
I feel like she sacrificed her class rank to be on a varsity team as she could have doubled up on Math or taken 2 more years of AP classes instead of only receiving elective credit for the varsity team years.
Very little volunteering as she has almost no free time because of varsity team and other EC time commitment, no leadership positions as well as very busy Summers. Wasn’t able to take Algebra I as an 8th grader so she is only in Pre-Cal right now and that affected her Math scores. If her Math scores were the same as her English/ CR scores, she probably would have been offered full admission.
I had thought that she would possibly be offered either Gateway or Blinn Team. A lot of the graduates of her High School are offered Blinn Team or Galveston or PSA. There are very, very few denials for TAMU in this HS. The top 10% of this school tends to go to Ivy League schools, not TAMU or UT.
I’ll bet that many of the top 10% from less competitive TX schools who applied to both TAMU and UT actually choose to go to UT. I wish those open spots could be offered to people who really want to go to TAMU.
But if she accepts Blinn TEAM she will be in the CStat area and will be able to go through Sorority recruitment, so that is a plus. The irony is that she had barely sent in her application and several schools including Texas Tech, UTD, UH all sent full acceptances. UH even offered her merit money. But she doesn’t really want to go to those schools. She just knew that because of her class rank, she might not be accepted at TAMU and she needed safety schools.
I had hoped that if she was offered Gateway that perhaps she could apply for English Honors for the Fall 2017 Semester instead of having to wait a full year.
I don’t see a Blinn Team Pathway for English majors. Thelma2, do you know what she should do as an English major? Should she bother taking any Summer college courses at the local community colleges in the hopes of only having to spend a year at Blinn? If she is at Blinn for 2 years, I think that will keep her out of English Honors.
What are some positive things that I can say to her to change her perspective and learn to be happy with being offered Blinn Team? I know that there are a lot of students who would be ecstatic to be offered Blinn Team.
Thanks to everyone who has posted on this blog. I have lurked here for a few weeks and have learned a lot.
. What kind of courses should I take for BIMS, if there is only General Studies in Blinn?