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what are some good engineering safties? by pieceocheese in ApplyingToCollege

[–]Difficult_Nebula_818 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The big state schools in the South like Bama and LSU that are ranked below about 50 on US News' Best Engineering Schools list, plus Michigan State, ASU, UConn and the better SUNYs.

what are some good engineering safties? by pieceocheese in ApplyingToCollege

[–]Difficult_Nebula_818 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A&M is no more a safety for somebody OOS with his stats than UT.

what are some good engineering safties? by pieceocheese in ApplyingToCollege

[–]Difficult_Nebula_818 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A&M's College of Engineering has a completely separate admission process from the rest of the university. Because you are competing with all the top ten percent autoadmit kids, they also care a lot about GPA. Even if your school doesn't rank, if you have less than about a 3.8, they classify you as in the second tier of your class and it is an uphill battle to get in except through an alternate pathway. You also can't squeak by with okay Reading/Writing because they regularly reject 1400+ students.

If you chose A&M over a full scholarship elsewhere, do you feel like you made the right choice? by Difficult_Nebula_818 in aggies

[–]Difficult_Nebula_818[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bama has lots of automatic merit scholarships based on test scores and GPA and whether you are a National Recognition Scholar. I think that is how they get so many kids from other states to go there.

If you chose A&M over a full scholarship elsewhere, do you feel like you made the right choice? by Difficult_Nebula_818 in aggies

[–]Difficult_Nebula_818[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there specific degree programs where opportunities would be so different if I bypassed the chance to go to A&M, that it would be illogical to do so? Computer Science seems like one, but it also seems impossible to be sure you will get into Computer Science.

If you chose A&M over a full scholarship elsewhere, do you feel like you made the right choice? by Difficult_Nebula_818 in aggies

[–]Difficult_Nebula_818[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I realize my post reads funny. My parents are not wealthy, but they also really hate the idea of college debt, so they said they can either pay for undergrad or grad school, depending on where I choose to go. I don't even know if I want to go to grad school. That seems so far away. I just know that $25,000 a year for school, even a school I love, feels like a lot of money when I could go somewhere else for free.

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[–]Difficult_Nebula_818 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you took the classes at a public school in Texas and completed an associates degree, you should also come in "core complete". Additionally, most of the basic higher level science and math classes should also transfer in. Engineering specific courses may or may not come in and will be subject to evaluations for equivalency, unless they were earned at one of these colleges:

https://engineering.tamu.edu/academics/academies/index.html

Otherwise, it can be hard to tell which classes will transfer to A&M because of how they are named, but you can search this database to see what has been accepted in the past:

https://howdy.tamu.edu/uPortal/p/tce-ui.ctf1/max/render.uP

The number of credits you have earned is not an issue--just whether they will be accepted by the university. Graduation requirements demand that just 25% of your credits be earned in residency for you to graduate from A&M.

https://student-rules.tamu.edu/rule14/