Can anyone speak to your son or daughter gaining admission into Mays but not in the top 10%? What were their stats like? Were you test optional?

TIA!!!

Son was top 12% at a large 6A HS in Katy. His SAT was like a 1350 and he was involved in Varsity Football, PALS mentor for two years, worked at HEB, and had great recommendation letters. He was admitted in October of his senior year and is now in year two at Mays. Hope this helps.

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KatyAggie2000 said:

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Son was top 12% at a large 6A HS in Katy. His SAT was like a 1350 and he was involved in Varsity Football, PALS mentor for two years, worked at HEB, and had great recommendation letters. He was admitted in October of his senior year and is now in year two at Mays. Hope this helps.

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My son had a similar resume to this student, 2 years ago.

There's also a Masters program out of Mays for students whose undergrad was not business. It's a 1-year program after they graduate. It's a great path for those that don't get into Mays for undergrad.

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It boggles my mind that Mays has not moved to a separate admission policy like Engineering, it makes it so difficult for anyone outside the Top 10% even with great stats because they have so few slots left after the Top 10%.

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Engineering actually rescinded their EA policy this year because too many families were confused with the free Apply Texas week. It's crazy how UT-Austin can successfully implement this for its whole university, but Texas A&M cannot even manage it for a year for one single college.

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There's also a Masters program out of Mays for students whose undergrad was not business. It's a 1-year program after they graduate. It's a great path for those that don't get into Mays for undergrad.

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Interesting. Is it a masters in business? I cannot seem to find any info on it...

BoDog said:

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Bellbull said:

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There's also a Masters program out of Mays for students whose undergrad was not business. It's a 1-year program after they graduate. It's a great path for those that don't get into Mays for undergrad.

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Interesting. Is it a masters in business? I cannot seem to find any info on it...

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Fast-track MS Business

Bellbull said:

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There's also a Masters program out of Mays for students whose undergrad was not business. It's a 1-year program after they graduate. It's a great path for those that don't get into Mays for undergrad.

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thats cool wish that was around when I was in school.

Any idea if there is a source that shows career outcomes for students completing these MS programs?

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double b said:

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aggie93 said:

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It boggles my mind that Mays has not moved to a separate admission policy like Engineering, it makes it so difficult for anyone outside the Top 10% even with great stats because they have so few slots left after the Top 10%.

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Engineering actually rescinded their EA policy this year because too many families were confused with the free Apply Texas week. It's crazy how UT-Austin can successfully implement this for its whole university, but Texas A&M cannot even manage it for a year for one single college.

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I wish we would just write a nice check and go hire Rick Clark or someone like him and have them take over our admissions office. I'd love for A&M to just emulate Georgia Tech in admissions. We are basically disfunctional with the most confusing and poorly thought out admissions system of any Top 100 University. We could do so much better.

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I agree with you. My youngest is currently a senior going through all of this. Surprisingly, tu has been the best admissions experience and my kid has applied to A&M, tu, Rice, Florida, Michigan, UNC-Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt, USC, UCLA, UC-Berkeley, Stanford, Notre
Dame, UVA, Cornell, and Boston College. The tu admissions office is very responsive. They actually pick up the phone and have discussions of substance with applicants and their parents (in our experience), They promptly return emails. They make an effort to connect the applicant with other students and advisors in the department the applicant is applying to. Just night and day difference between our tu and A&M admissions experiences up to this date.

This is partly why I wasn't wringing my hands over Welsh being gone. Our dysfunctional admissions process is one of the primary issues I see from our school, and I saw no movement to meaningfully address it other than "hey, maybe we shouldn't admit so many". Would love to see the next president make this a priority from the outset.

Both of my kids have attended (older class of 25 grad, younger class of 29 fish). The admissions messaging from the school quite frankly was flat-out bad advice; thankfully, we knew better from outside sources about how to work the process. The advice improved by the time my younger daughter went thru it, but still not great. It's an outlier in a bad way; we can do so much better.

My son got admitted this week to Mays. He was only in the top quarter of his class of 950 students. I'm going to be honest that his resume wasn't full of extra curriculars and I think it seems like a crap shoot of who gets in and who doesn't. His brother had higher test scores and a higher class rank and got a wait list letter and then was accepted to the school if he choose one of the programs that had space. Most of them were ag related degrees.

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My son got admitted this week to Mays. He was only in the top quarter of his class of 950 students. I'm going to be honest that his resume wasn't full of extra curriculars and I think it seems like a crap shoot of who gets in and who doesn't. His brother had higher test scores and a higher class rank and got a wait list letter and then was accepted to the school if he choose one of the programs that had space. Most of them were ag related degrees.

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I assume you submitted test scores?

Yes he submitted test scores.

mmt5537 said:

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My son got admitted this week to Mays. He was only in the top quarter of his class of 950 students. I'm going to be honest that his resume wasn't full of extra curriculars and I think it seems like a crap shoot of who gets in and who doesn't. His brother had higher test scores and a higher class rank and got a wait list letter and then was accepted to the school if he choose one of the programs that had space. Most of them were ag related degrees.

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Did your older son end up going to A&M or choose another university? I'm always curious what students from big suburban competitive high schools or competitive private schools who fall just outside of top 10% with good test scores and don't get into Mays end up doing. Do they accept and choose a different major or go to another university. My kid's best friend is holistic review for Mays. High SAT and SAT scores. Just barely missed the NMSF cut off, but then did better on ACT and SAT. Has a 4.0 unweighted with a lot of AP and advanced courses. Wants to be a CPA, so not really any flexibility on getting a degree from another department/college at A&M. Works 25 hours a week at a part-time job. The other day the high school counselor told my kid's friend that if seniors don't get accepted to Mays this week or next week that they aren't getting into Mays.

My older son did go to A&M. He applied to the biomed department when he got waitlisted. He wound up entering with a genetics major because it was one of the majors that they said wasn't full so it wasn't as big of a switch for him. He got accepted into the honors program at Missouri and Arkansas in biomedical but he decided he wanted to go to A&M.

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aggie93 said:

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double b said:

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aggie93 said:

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It boggles my mind that Mays has not moved to a separate admission policy like Engineering, it makes it so difficult for anyone outside the Top 10% even with great stats because they have so few slots left after the Top 10%.

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Engineering actually rescinded their EA policy this year because too many families were confused with the free Apply Texas week. It's crazy how UT-Austin can successfully implement this for its whole university, but Texas A&M cannot even manage it for a year for one single college.

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I wish we would just write a nice check and go hire Rick Clark or someone like him and have them take over our admissions office. I'd love for A&M to just emulate Georgia Tech in admissions. We are basically disfunctional with the most confusing and poorly thought out admissions system of any Top 100 University. We could do so much better.

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I agree with you. My youngest is currently a senior going through all of this. Surprisingly, tu has been the best admissions experience and my kid has applied to A&M, tu, Rice, Florida, Michigan, UNC-Chapel Hill, Vanderbilt, USC, UCLA, UC-Berkeley, Stanford, Notre
Dame, UVA, Cornell, and Boston College. The tu admissions office is very responsive. They actually pick up the phone and have discussions of substance with applicants and their parents (in our experience), They promptly return emails. They make an effort to connect the applicant with other students and advisors in the department the applicant is applying to. Just night and day difference between our tu and A&M admissions experiences up to this date.

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Texas is much better than us but they have plenty of warts as well, they at least have a consistent process and are more clear cut. That said they had an absolute mess last year with releasing admissions beyond auto admits. They were overwhelmed with a big increase in apps though.

Best of luck to your youngest! That's quite a list and I hope they get some great results!

If/when we make the CFP our application numbers will rival those of Texas. The exposure schools get when their teams are on the national stage is exponential. Last year SMU's apps about doubled when they went on their unprecedented run...

Daughter was top 12% in a 6A public school. Tons of extra curriculars and she wrote some amazing essays. She didn't even submit her SAT or ACT test scores.

She's a freshman in Mays and making straight As so far.

I think the key is applying as soon as possible and having everything lined up ready to submit. The essay is important as well.

Top 18%
1350 SAT
2 x Captain of 5A Swim Team
2 X Men's Swim Team MVP
12 x 5A All State Swim
8 AP classes

Done w/ 61 hours at TAMU and has a 4.0

Have heard test optional is a death sentence for non top 10% unless there is something truly remarkable in the app ..... like national level achievement

Texarkana said:

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Top 18%
1350 SAT
2 x Captain of 5A Swim Team
2 X Men's Swim Team MVP
12 x 5A All State Swim
8 AP classes

Done w/ 61 hours at TAMU and has a 4.0

Have heard test optional is a death sentence for non top 10% unless there is something truly remarkable in the app ..... like national level achievement

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Death sentence to get into Mays or TAMU in general?

Mays because it is so competitive

If you really want the the latest and most detailed admissions info:

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/c/colleges-and-universities/texas-aandm-university/496

The active posters on college confidential are a wealth of information and are obviously plugged into the TAMU admission process. Without the advice on this site my son would have probably made a few mistakes with his application.

Edit: thinking back a couple years the actual advice (from college confidential) was SAT below 1100 is a no brainer to not submit - SAT above 1180 is no brainer to submit. They did make it clear for programs like Business and Engineering no SAT makes it an uphill battle.

All that said read college confidential

Texarkana said:

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Mays because it is so competitive

If you really want the the latest and most detailed admissions info:

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/c/colleges-and-universities/texas-aandm-university/496

The active posters on college confidential are a wealth of information and are obviously plugged into the TAMU admission process. Without the advice on this site my son would have probably made a few mistakes with his application.

Edit: thinking back a couple years the actual advice (from college confidential) was SAT below 1100 is a no brainer to not submit - SAT above 1180 is no brainer to submit. They did make it clear for programs like Business and Engineering no SAT makes it an uphill battle.

All that said read college confidential

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This^^

College Confidential is the best resource you can use to understand ins/outs of application process.

Got into May's last fall, not being top 10%. I was on the cusp at 11% but did not have the auto-admit. Had a 1360 SAT, no volunteering, but many extracurriculars. It is rolling admission, so it is recommended to apply asap. Applied in late September.

C/O 2029

Thanks, Bellbull! I started recruiting for Mays MS Business last year and it's so fun to work with students from all over the university. Mays undergrad has such a reputation as impossible to get in, that I have to fight that reputation all the time! We do holistic application reviews - looking at the whole student rather than turn them in to a percentage or a number. There are 44 students from 27 different majors in the program this year.

Hi BoDog. I'm in the midst of crunching numbers from our most recent graduates. Average salary after MS Business peaked at 84k but new numbers will likely be lower. Send me an email and I'm happy to send more info. debkmann@tamu.edu It's a fantastic program!

Question, I have a BBA in Management, class of 1973. Am I considered a Mays graduate? I'm impressed with the type of requirements required to get in today.