Worried about Texas A&M - Chance Me Please

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<p>Well guys this is my first post,</p>

<p>My friend keeps telling me I should get in, however I'm VERY worried.</p>

<p>State: Texas
School: Public
Class rank: 12
Class size: 65 (small class size)
Percentage: Top 25%
GPA: 95.01 weighted, is this a 4.0?
SAT (I know they're abysmal): CR - 500 MATH - 520 WRIT-410 (A&M doesn't have these scores)
ACT: Just took it, should be mid 20's - Scores were sent to TAMU
Senior Schedule - No AP Classes were available during my stint here due to the small school size. I have as hard of a schedule available to me.</p>

<p>-Anatomy & Physiology (Elective)
-BCIS
-College Algebra (College Algebra is a one semester class, I will take a College Stats class next semester.)
-College English
-Art II
-College Political Sci
-College Political Sci (Two Class Periods, it sucks)
-Office Aide (Would this be comm. service?)</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Caucasian</p>

<p>Clubs: 4</p>

<p>Sport: N/A</p>

<p>Volunteer Work: Organized can food drives and read stories to kids with BETA club. Office aide may count which would provide an hour every day.</p>

<p>Other ECs: Self taught guitar (have played 3 years), Quiz Bowl State Champion and competed at nationals.</p>

<p>Letter of Recommendations: 2</p>

<p>Also, I'm shooting for a Business Admin major, with General Studies as my second choice. I will be writing the optional essay. </p>

<p>That's pretty much what I see everybody else posting up. If you need more info, please ask.</p>

<p>Thanks
John</p>

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<p>I’d say you have a decent shot
Though I would try to raise your SAT scores to 1300 (verbal + math)
That way you would qualify as an academic admit</p>

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<p>Are they looking for things like Quiz Bowl State Champion or should I leave those off?</p>

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<p>I would definitely keep those
Extra curriculars and roles where you showed leadership are quite important to A&M.</p>

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<p>Search “demonstrated interest” in this forum. You will find hints to help you appear more attractive to A&M.</p>

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<p>Thanks for that tip, I’ve attended quite a few events there so I made sure to list them where it was appropriate.</p>

<p>I read about A&M offering free tuition to those whose family made less than 60,000 for the previous year. How true is this?</p>

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<p>You have a 95/4.0 GPA, but you have very low test scores. Seems suspicious.
I’d say you’d get waitlisted, then denied. Aim for a 26 ACT/1200 (M/CR) SAT and you’ll have a decent shot.</p>

<p>As for the free tuition for families making less than $60k, the program is called the Aggie Assurance Program. Here’s more about it: <a href=“https://financialaid.tamu.edu/Types/aggie_assurance.aspx[/url]”>https://financialaid.tamu.edu/Types/aggie_assurance.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Bumping this up because I was just elected as our senior class president and I might be able to get a letter of recommendation from guy who works for Texas A&M’s alumni association. How much of an impact will either one of those make on my application?</p>

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<p>use everything you have available. it can only help!</p>

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<p>Senior class president would probably help because they’re big on leadership. I don’t know about the letter. Ds didn’t even send in a single letter. I guess it wouldn’t hurt. I’d concentrate more on those SAT scores; that’s the most glaring deficit I see. Good luck!</p>

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<p>I haven’t sent them the SAT scores, I’m hoping for good ACT’s</p>

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<p>Just checked my ACT Scores.</p>

<p>I got a 25 first try! Lower than most of you here at CC but I am VERY satisfied with my results. Hopefully I’ll be saying Howdy! to a few of yall come next fall :D</p>

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<p>Much better! Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks and while this still isn’t a sure fire thing I feel a lot more confident in my application.</p>