One has to look at the fine prints to know what CAP is, and even just for COLA, not all majors are available.
I think my original statement is based on comparing TAMU pathways (TEAB, Blinn, Galveston, McAllen, PSA, Academies, Gateway…) TAMU has all departments and all majors opened (including Mays and hard to get engineering majors), of course that will depend on academic results. But UT CAP is not offering everything even if one is 4.0.
Second is not something public aware. UT doesn’t fund the CAP partners (thus UTD withdraw), TAMU funded all the pathways. UT has the second most endowment in US (likely world too), and this area is what most endowment sponsors will be willing to spend money on but UT choose not to do so.
How does A&M fund PSA? Pay for counselors and professors at PSA schools? Also was PSA admission down this year with the advent of Opportunity majors? Seems like UTA and UTSA are willing to take CAP students because some of them stay and it’s an extra year of tuition, although offset by a transient population.
I believe both UT and TAMU systems cannot count on students’ tuition. If you review both systems’ offices of Provost financial statements, it costs $58K and $57K per student in UT and TAMU respectively so if base solely on students’ tuition, both systems lose money (even for out of state) enrolling each student. Both systems count heavily on state and federal support (over 50%) but government funding is not per head basis. That said, UTSA and UTA participate CAP is not because they are vying for students’ tuition, instead, the spill over of students who are still very good academically, are easy (and less costly) recruits to build a solid alumni network.
The budgeting is based on fund distribution in each school system. TAMU’s funding the PSA and Academies faculties is just one of the ways to ensure the classes standard are up to speed as the main campus. The ultimate goal is making sure the students can smoothly transition to TAMU.