For change of major they only looked at grades and courses. Not extras. At least how it was January of 2020
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Thank you for pointing that out
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For any admitted student planning live on campus, I have created two “speed dating” style zoom sessions to meet potential roommates for on campus only. The date is set for Sunday, April 3rd and there will be a session for GIRLS at 5:00pm and a session for BOYS at 6:00pm. Please have your student register in advance (links below) for the appropriate zoom so that I make sure we have enough that are committing to this date.
We will do one on one breakout rooms (approx 5 minutes each) so students can meet over zoom to search for potential roommates. Come prepared knowing the following:
- Northside vs. Southside
- Dorm type you are willing to live in based on price point (i.e. modular, balcony, etc.)
- Your roommate behavior (morning vs night person, messy vs. clean, etc.)
- Interests
- Social media handles to type in the chat or other contact info
Each person will have approx. 2.5 minutes to quickly talk about the above before breakout rooms are randomly shuffled. If you want to get to know a person better, be sure to exchange contact info!
TAMU on campus BOY roommate zoom:
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Apr 3, 2022 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://bnionline.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtdO-orTovH9N3ljsh9y__QGxlFIFIG1cX
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
TAMU on campus GIRL roommate zoom:
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Apr 3, 2022 05:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://bnionline.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcld-2prz8iEtMj8tZ8-nydXdBdEZEv_oTO
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Just to be sure, I emailed the person charge of all of this. It’s crazy how misleading the faculty is. I’m just a first year college student and shouldn’t be expected to know this. Parents never went to college in this country and I have no older siblings or cousins in college yet. Their faculty is so misleading.
@sk_420 so who exactly are you communicating with? Office of Admissions, Mays? Faculty aren’t advisors, I don’t think (at least not in Mays). Many that answer phones are students. Can incoming students communicate with advisors, not even In their major?
I would rely on university websites, links, hard copy/printed material. It’s hard to dispute what’s in writing on the www.
Relying on the spoken word-any circumstance-isn’t always reliable.
That is great you emailed and we can’t wait to see the reply! You are right, the whole process and criteria is very confusing since there is so much info to go through, and then there are changes year to year.
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Her name was Amber. I believe she is actually employed there.
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That’s good. I would still make a campus visit, appt with Mays (if you can; not sure how easily that will be, if you aren’t admitted to Mays) and get things in writing from their handouts and the dept website.
We started touring A&M, meeting with local A&M reps in 2017. The only thing that’s changed in that time is the number admitted has increased from 1,000 incoming freshman to 1,115 (1,125? something like that) and the addition of holistic admission, if not Top Ten% admit.
The internal Change of Major process hasn’t changed. There has never been a way to find someone to ‘swap majors’…ever. 60 hours has been the capped hours limit. 3.5 gpa is the MINIMUM.
Mays is tried & true, pretty old school, like a well oiled machine. Very transparent & extremely competitive.
I wouldn’t focus on trying to get into Mays so much. You might realize you really enjoy Econ. At least give it a try.
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What’s her last name?
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Has anyone had their Manage Applications on Howdy say “Whoop You’ve been Admitted” and given the option to accept admission then change back to “In Review” a few days later…? Not sure what this means…. All tabs are still there.
The ETAM process at TAMU stinks. Not cool to have the school accept ppl and then say you MIGHT get your first choice. For some weird reason ppl are so desperate to be Aggies that they take this hit anyway and choose a major they didn’t want. It’s dumb. There are other greats schools in Texas, people! I was auto-admit and turned down TAMU engineering for this very reason. They were the first offer I shredded in my shredder. Plus they didn’t offer me ANYTHING to lure me there. Whereas I got money and honors at UT and a full ride to Tech. (Along with Purdue, Amherst, and Princeton) TAMU doesn’t seem the slightest bit interested in luring the best to their school. My twin also got an Ivy League and three T10 schools but no money from TAMU. He shredded his offer also. They’re too busy cramming everyone and their dog into alternative programs. No thanks. Take Tech
UT has no money for NMSF and NMF, TAMU still have GENEROUS scholarship for NMSF and NMF.
TAMU offers generous TTSA to needing students, UT has no such thing. The famous UT 40 acres scholarship is totally funded and reviewed by alumni not from UT.
ETAM is created to tackle the Texas auto-admit law, if you are really Ivy-caliber students, ETAM is a piece of cake. UT CS Turing is much much harder to get in than TAMU CS with ETAM with honor.
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Spot on! Son got $2000 from TTSA and NMSF money and we are very grateful as not a single other college offer money.
Ironic someone claimed to get in Princeton would be bothered by ETAM.
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@tgieske ETAM process is upfront, not hidden. A high % do get their chosen field of Engineering.
It isn’t for everyone, that’s for sure. The driven, competitive students rise to the top. But given the number of applicants every year, it doesn’t seem to be that much of a deterrent.
A&M, across the board, is known for not giving much scholarship 
…except primarily to those who are levels of National Merit and need based. A&M targets students in 100 identified under-represented schools around the state, known as Century Scholars.
Departmental scholarships are offered for sophomore-seniors. But A&M doesn’t ‘dangle’, match or ‘lure’ incoming scholarships like other schools, doesn’t offer in-state tuition for OOS students (like UArk, OU, Alabama and other schools do, for TX residents).
THEY DON’T HAVE TO…over 50k extremely qualified, competitive students are applying every year.
The great thing about college admissions is, students get to choose! (*assuming they’ve applied to schools they can get acceptance to).
My daughter and I took 12 official college tours-from California-TN-South Carolina-TX and other states in between (including Stanford, USC, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Fordham, Clemson). My Aggie researched, applied, set up tours, looked at websites, signed up for emails. She was well informed. We never counted on or planned she would get scholarship …it is not someone else’s job to pay for her education. Any award/scholarship she’s received, we count as both a blessing and a bonus!
My daughter had many top college offers (most came with scholarships) , she ultimately chose TAMU Mays Business Honors. She’s never looked back, is absolutely thriving!
I hope you & your twin will enjoy college as much as my Aggie is! 
P.S. I am not an Aggie
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Nope mine has always stayed consistent
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Future Applicants: If you disagree with ETAM, then save your time and everyone else’s and don’t apply to A&M. Easy solution.
p.s. Purdue has the same deal for Engineering … it’s called Transition to Major (T2M).
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I really appreciate the frustration of not having things go exactly as you want, but that is life and no one is entitled to anything including a confirmed major and a scholarship.
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In a civil society, it is ok to have differing opinions. There is no need to gang up against someone who has a completely different viewpoint than that of the majority. If a student is being misled, please help if you can and don’t question the validity of her/his communication with the school, if a parent is not happy with the academic process at TAMU and that is ok too.
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I Totally agree with your comment But the only incivility I’ve seen on this board has been by folks calling the school a cult, threatening to sue Because they disagreed with an admissions decision, and making fun of the size of a town an applicant might be from.
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Our high school yields 60-70 NMF every year and they don’t get a dime from UT but TAMU has standard $42K with 5th year $3K.
What stinks is when UT auto-admit students in September then toss about 4000 of them to Liberal Arts. Call it soft denial or whatever you want. UT threads showed top 1-3% got tossed from engineering to Liberal Arts every late January. ETAM at least give you a chance to prove yourself.
People here in general welcome all opinions, just when it came in rather odd to borderline illogical.
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