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Tips for Transfer Students
- Make sure to get your application and all other required
papers submitted before the deadline each semester –
check with the Texas A&M Office
of Admissions to check the deadlines each semester.
- It is important that you select an engineering major as
your 1st choice when you apply because engineering will
not consider 2nd choice majors; if those who indicate engineering
as their first choice do not get admitted into their requested
major, they may be offered alternate engineering major(s).
- Carefully review the recommended courses to take (found
in the two tables, Track B or D, in Catalog 130, pg. 54).
Successfully complete 24 credit hours from these tables,
Track D (for most engineering majors) or B (for computer
science) and have a 3.0 cumulative GPR. This is required
for automatic admission into the college of engineering.
Minimum GPR required for transfer admission to the University
is cumulative 2.25 on 24 graded semester hours of transferable
course work at the time of the application.
- Take courses at other institutions that indicate you can
be successful in engineering – courses such as Calculus,
Physics, etc. Students who are not automatically admitted
may be reviewed by a departmental academic advisor and they
look for success in rigorous courses.
- All Common Body of Knowledge (CBK) courses must be completed
with a grade of C or better. D’s and F’s in
CBK courses must be repeated.
- Check with your school counselor to see if your school
has completed an articulation
agreement with the college of engineering at
Texas A&M. The articulation agreement maps out the courses
offered at other institutions that count toward and engineering
degree at Texas A&M.
- Ask your school counselor about Transfer
Information Day on the Texas A&M campus
- they are usually held on a Friday in early fall and early
spring. This is a great opportunity for prospective transfer
student, parents and counselors to get information from
various offices on campus and from students and faculty
in the College of Engineering.
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The first semester is sometimes a big
adjustment for transfer students and grades sometimes
suffer. On the average, transfer students GPR for their
first semester is between .5 - .75 lower than previously
at the other institution. But then it will bounce back
up, close to the GPR brought in. Also on the average,
the retention and graduation rate of transfers is better
than that of freshmen.
- An excellend resource for prospective transfer students
is the Transfer
Guide, prepared by the TAMU Office of Admissions.
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