Howdy Everyone! First of all, GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE ON THIS BOARD!! I hope that everyone (everyone’s child) gets to be an AGGIE!
ksaaggie91: My D2 had the same ACT score and was 53% rank and was offered Blinn-TEAM. My only worry for y’all is the high number of AP/Dual credit hours as that might not work for Blinn-TEAM. But hopefully the reviewers will take into account the upward trend of grades. I hope that your student addressed all of that in their essays! If your child gets offered anything less than at least Blinn-TEAM, then go through the appeal process. My D2 would have appealed anything less than Blinn-TEAM. It can’t hurt. and it might work. According to TAMU, a student has to accept the Dual Credit hours but does not have to accept the AP credit hours, so that might be something to bring up during the appeal process. But hopefully they will be a full Aggie!
I’d like to give y’all an update on my Freshman TAMU-Blinn TEAM daughter. She is SO loving being an AGGIE!! She says that she can’t imagine being anywhere else.
I am so happy for her, I didn’t want her to want to be an Aggie just because her sister was an Aggie Class of '16, I wanted her to go where she fit in and where it was best for her.
My daughter has straight A’s right now! She is managing her time at both campuses (MWF at TAMU and T Th at Blinn) along with participating in Sorority Recruitment and joining another fun TAMU campus organization. She has met a lot of new friends and is also managing a busy social life along with studying for classes. She has a Sports Pass and goes to all of the home games and really enjoys the tail gating prior to the games.
She was initiated into her first choice Sorority House! (It is the same house that her sister was in during her Aggie years). I am so happy that she is in a house with girls who value her and that she feels comfortable with also. Her initial worry about being on Blinn TEAM and having that possibly count against her during Recruitment was completely unfounded. She says that “no one cares” if you are on Blinn TEAM, that a lot of the girls in her entire recruitment process were Blinn TEAM and a lot of the Big Sisters, etc. in the various houses were also on Blinn TEAM. This is a big change from when my oldest daughter was a Freshman review full admit in 2012 and her Blinn-TEAM roommate could not participate in recruitment.
She lives right at the edge of the TAMU campus so it is a quick walk to anywhere on the TAMU campus. Catching the bus to Blinn on the TAMU campus makes that commute very easy and she uses the time between classes on the Blinn campus to study. She usually takes a lunch when she goes to Blinn so that she can maximize her studying time.
Overall, Blinn-TEAM seems to be a great solution to the problem of having 4 times as many applications as there are full admissions slots at TAMU. I know people with Blinn-Engineering students and they are also happy with their situation. None of her friends in her TAMU classes care that she is a Blinn-TEAM student.
I guess you could say that for us, Blinn TEAM was plan A-. Not a plan B where she had to go somewhere else and then transfer into CStat later. Because they are Blinn-TEAM and can participate in everything Aggie (except play a UIL sport), the Blinn-TEAMers are fully immersed in all of the traditions of being and Aggie and living in CStat. And what a great place! EVERYONE is so nice, even at all of the stores in town, not just on the TAMU campus!
I am glad that my daughter attended a very rigorous HS, even though that meant that she was not in the top 50% with a 3.5 unweighted gpa (it was above 4 on the weighted gpa, I just can’t remember the exact number). With her gpa and SAT scores, she would have been ranked much higher at any other school in this school district, and perhaps would have been a full admit. I know of people who transferred their child to a different HS for their Senior year to increase their class rank. That had to be hard socially on those kids.
The HS is a neighborhood zoned school (not an application only school) in the suburbs of one of the major cities in TX and is only outranked by application only schools in our area. It is a nationally ranked HS according to the average standardized test scores and is in the top handful of HS in TX for all criteria. This school regularly has at least half or more of all NMSF for our entire school district, those 30+ students are the top 5 ish % of her school! But because she went to a very rigorous HS, my daughter is well prepared for TAMU. And that is a much better situation to be in rather than coasting through HS at a less demanding school and then being shocked by the difficulty of college classes.
We are so grateful that someone on the review committee looked beyond her class rank and gave her the chance to be an Aggie! May all of the reviewers see the what is special about your children and may they all get to be AGGIES!
