@Kjohnson01 Yes they are, congrats!
Also this morning, my friend texted me that she received three voicemails from Blinn about being part of the engineering at Blinn Bryan. Her AIS still says in review but is this a good sign?
@Kjohnson01 yes those are the tabsâŠcongrats to your son!!!
You should be able to register for NSC as soon as the âWhoop Youâve Been Admittedâ shows up in AIS
@AggieMOStudent24 I think itâs a very good sign. Did she get the 6 tabs also? She should check it this morning.
Iâm not sure what you talking about in terms of a large percentage of admitted students @JaceyK. Last year was the lowest percent of successful review applicants that Iâve run numbers for.
Last year only 17% of students made it out of review. The number of review students if you are looking at the breakdown of the admission categories (the people who got admitted or co-enrolled), review students only make up 10.7% of the current Freshman class.
From something I posted back in September.
In 2018 - 42.2% of applicants got PSA or denied. In 2019 that number was 52%. So nearly 10 percent more students were PSA or denied for the class of 2023. 2018 about 19% of the admitted students came out of review. 2019 it was 10.7%. So a review applicant in 2018 was almost twice as likely to gain admission than a review applicant in 2019.
There were roughly 31200 review applicants in 2019. You get that number by looking at the whole number of applicants minus the Top 10% and Academic admits (Review Full and Review Alternative - plus the 25,000+ PSA and denied.)
So 7.53% of review applicants were granted full admission. And 9.62% were given alternative admission. So in total 17% of review applicants were granted full admission, Gateway, Blinn TEAM or the engineering academy. In other words - less than 20 percent of all review applicants were granted admission.
@TAMUAg Thank you!!! Do you know how long it takes for the 'Whoop Youâve been Admitted to show up in AIS? We anxiously want to hurry and sign up for NSC.
It almost sounds like perhaps admissions is working through the engineering applications that did NOT make the 10/15 Early Action deadline and awarding full admissions for those that make the cut. Congrats to those students!
Since they are going through those non EA engineering students now, I canât see how theyâd possibly be handing out any decisions on the 1/31 âwaitlistedâ students. I personally think the admissions people that gave people answers at Aggieland about acceptances being out this week had their facts confused. (Iâm referring to the admissions people having their facts confused) I hope Iâm wrong, but I just donât see it all happening this week.
@BlueBayouAZ Well when you put it like that - I wasnât looking at just review admits only. I wonder what the percent is of borderline review/academic admits is. He was just so dang close! Sigh.
And I was originally referring to % admitted vs. % denied/PSA
@YankeeTexan33 Hopefully itâll be out by the end of the month! (assuming from last years timeline)
Congrats !! NSC should show up within 24 hrs to allow him to register. Btw, can you share your son stats so everyone knows the timing, admits, etc⊠?
@mikeinsugarland Thank you. Stats were 1350 SAT (680M, 670R) Top 26%
The UIN is immaterial for this type of FERPA request. He would have had to have been admitted to request to see the file.
I definitely hear you! It is frustrating, the not knowing. But, if you had been allowed to request and view the admissions file, I can absolutely promise you that you still wouldnât know. Youâd only be more confused, and wondering if an inebriated person put gibberish together and called it âAdmissions Fileâ ! 
They donât actually fill in the blanks for you on decisions. Itâs practically a data file, only (like @BlueBayouAZ mentioned) you donât have the key to deciphering the field names or values. Further, they donât add into (admissions files) what the admit standards are, even if you had the key. And, IVY schools are probably a little easier to glean some info from than how a Texas school data file will appear.
Thx ⊠when did he applied ? Early or regular deadline ?
Every University has a department through which you can make an âOpen Recordsâ request. You can just go to the school website and type âOpen Recordsâ, and youâll find it for sure. Theyâll provide you with instructions on how to make the request.
That said, anybody can make a request for their file, but unless youâre an admitted (and usually current) student, theyâre not obligated to fulfill the request-- and, theyâre not going to. And, as I mentioned to @JaceyK , there arenât typically the kind of ânotesâ or âcommentsâ that you can decipher. There are usually codes, or encoded language that would mean absolutely nothing to you.
The UT Austin admisisons files do contain their AI and PAI scores, but it wonât tell you anything about thresholds for any given year. You already know how AI is calculated (generally speaking- maybe not the scale, but itâs a value that calculates rank, score, and core units over a certain number). You wonât be able to calculate PAI. It also wonât tell you why/why not a student was/wasnât admitted to major. Even if you had the file of a rejected student to compare it with, you wouldnât be able to extrapolate any answers or patterns, because the sample would be way too small, and AI & PAI arenât the only inputs into the final decision.
Congratulations @Kjohnson01 !!!
@nomatter Thank you! Itâs such a relief that the wait is finally over. It was a brutal wait indeed.
@mikeinsugarland it wasnât early for sure. He applied in November.
Just wanted to address this one thing (forgot in my other response). You (parent) canât make this request on behalf of your student. Your student (even if still a minor) has a right educational privacy (covered under FERPA) where college is concerned. If your student has a reason for requesting a file she canât read, from a school that she was admitted to (and may have to wait until sheâs a current student, depending on the school), go right ahead. But, Iâd caution encouraging your student to do this so you can see the file.
Believe me, I donât think that anybody doesnât want to know the details of admission reviews. But these are young adults (or soon to be, if youâve got a very young one like me), and this is their journey. Some of the decisions confound us for sure. Still, there comes a time when we need to let them take the journey, even if there are ups, downs, mysteries, surprises, triumphs, and heartbreaks. As parents, weâve been used to being at the helm. Itâs time to let them be Captain. Just a bit of friendly (albeit unsolicited) advice. 
@nomatter I agree that they should be in the driverâs seat. I would like to add though that they have WAAAY more to be accountable for than we did when we applied for college. I remember I applied to 1 school and that was that. No poring over CC, videos, social media, etc for information on getting admitted or on when decisions will be released! I even totally BOMBED the SAT and still got in. LOL! I didnât even retake it - I was like âMeh - Iâm goodâ. Nowadays, kids have AP tests/scores, DC classes, SAT/ACT tests (and more retakes), extracurriculars, letters of recommendations, etc etc etc.
This is an excellent point. Back in the day, UT gave auto-admit for top 10% and 1200+ SAT (I donât know what TAMU was because I didnât apply). I was in all honors classes in a school where honors classes werenât the norm, so I barely had to get out of bed to get top 10%. I suspect having the better classes also helped my SAT, which I didnât prep for⊠at all.
There is no way, I would get into either of these schools today if I were to go through high school the way I did back then.
@TexasMTDad It really is unfortunate, the pressure that is on kids these days. I get so upset thinking about it. I do try soooo hard to refrain from nagging my youngest because he just needs to live like a normal teenager should (not would because todayâs normal just isnât normal in my book!). But alas, I still nag because I donât want him to suffer from any lapses in his own judgement (of a teenager!). And then you add the rising costs of college - no stress! These kids are having to face way more than we did - my daughter, a junior at TAMU, does SO much more than I ever did (in HS or college). I get exhausted just hearing about her day.