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Every engineering student is accepted into general engineering for their fist year, regardless of what they put on their application for first and second choice major.
When a student Applies To A Major (ETAM) depends on when the student completes the core engineering classes with a grade of C or better. Their first opportunity to ETAM is April of their freshman year.
Every engineering student will Apply To A Major regardless of GPA and regardless if they qualify to be placed into a major. Those who don’t qualify (because they didn’t satisfy the requirements) will simply not be placed into a major. Two GPA’s are taken into account through ETAM. The overall GPA and the engineering required courses GPA. Those with an overall GPA of 3.5 or higher, are placed in their first choice major. Those with an over all of 3.49 and under, undergo holistic review by each major according to the list in order of preference made by the applicant.
For instance, an applicant will list at least 3 and up to 5 engineering majors to be considered for. 3.5 GPA gets their #1 choice on their list. Those with 4.9 and under, will be reviewed by their #1 on the list and accepted or declined. If declined, the application goes directly to the #2 major on the list and the process continues until the applicant is accepted into a major.
Applicants are encouraged to confer with their engineering advisor before applying to a major so that the applicant is applying for a realistic goal. The college publishes the GPA’s threshold of what applicants were accepted into the majors and they want to make sure applicants are applying with realistic goals. For class 2021, an applicant below 3.0 overall GPA was not be accepted into Mechanical Engineering yet the lowest overall GPA for Computer Science was 2.9.
After the first ETAM in April of freshman year, ETAM is offered again the Fall (November with decisions in January) of sophomore year and again in Spring (April with decisions in June) of sophomore year. If someone isn’t in a major after that, there are too many variables in play of what happens next.
Here is a listing of what the Spring 2017 ETAM admissions looked like. I wish they had kept prior year links active, as I did not copy them, not thinking they would take them off of the page!! Each year they tweak the process. https://engineering.tamu.edu/academics/entry-to-a-major/resources/analysis-spring-2017-admission-cycle/index.html
This link is the ETAM Application preview and you can actually download a sample application! https://engineering.tamu.edu/academics/entry-to-a-major/application-preview.html
He’s received some attractive offers from TX Tech and Arkansas. We’re going to visit Arkansas on Tuesday.