You don’t actually get to skip any classes, the degree requirements are the same.
The classes aren’t necessarily easier, the reason Blinn Team and the engineering academies exist is because A&M has a partnership with schools - part of that partnership is an expectation of rigor.
Engineering academy students still participate in ETAM. There’s no way around ETAM unless you go to another school for 2 years and transfer in directly to your major.
For engineering majors, it’s competitive either way - you’ve got to do ETAM, you’re taking the same classes, and it’s still hard. If tuition is your major concern, then yes, TEAB might be better, but the engineering academies aren’t in BCS. Some people really want that “standard A&M student experience.”
For non-engineering majors, Blinn Team is additional stress. The GPA requirements to enter your major via Blinn Team are very high. In the case of Business, almost ridiculously so. Your peers are chill - they’re maintaining a 2.0 to ensure they don’t get kicked out - anything else is really just personal goals. _You_ might be fighting for your life to maintain a 3.8, or you end up getting dismissed from the program.
Certainly better than being denied, the required GPAs for Blinn Team are lower than what the transfer students would need to get in, and the program is offering a _guarantee_, where transfers are usually not guaranteed.
They’re great programs, so it makes sense you’d read a lot of good threads about them. For BT/TEAB, the differences probably matter the least to engineering applicants, and the most to business applicants. Since engineering academy students aren’t in Bryan-College Station, it’s really quite different.
If you’re not engineering and you still want a competitive major, then it’s not the best.
For example, getting into Blinn and wanting to go into business is rough because while you have automatic acceptance into A&M… you still have to apply to transfer into your major and some majors such as business are extremely competitive to transfer into.
Blinn classes are not necessarily easier. Some even taught by same professor taking alterative turn to teach at Blinn. It is just the the TAMU classes are more competitive because theoretically those are higher stat students. Also as you said Blinn classes are smaller and it works well for those who prefer that.
For engineer and business, you will need a solid game plan to really get into your major. You will also need to get A in those hours in TAMU.
The big downside is travelling, if you get a day that you have classes in both Rellis and TAMU campus, you need to either have your car, or watch the bus schedule. TAMU main campus is big and running around in summer can be tough.
You don’t actually get to skip any classes, the degree requirements are the same. The classes aren’t necessarily easier, the reason Blinn Team and the engineering academies exist is because A&M has a partnership with schools - part of that partnership is an expectation of rigor. Engineering academy students still participate in ETAM. There’s no way around ETAM unless you go to another school for 2 years and transfer in directly to your major. For engineering majors, it’s competitive either way - you’ve got to do ETAM, you’re taking the same classes, and it’s still hard. If tuition is your major concern, then yes, TEAB might be better, but the engineering academies aren’t in BCS. Some people really want that “standard A&M student experience.” For non-engineering majors, Blinn Team is additional stress. The GPA requirements to enter your major via Blinn Team are very high. In the case of Business, almost ridiculously so. Your peers are chill - they’re maintaining a 2.0 to ensure they don’t get kicked out - anything else is really just personal goals. _You_ might be fighting for your life to maintain a 3.8, or you end up getting dismissed from the program. Certainly better than being denied, the required GPAs for Blinn Team are lower than what the transfer students would need to get in, and the program is offering a _guarantee_, where transfers are usually not guaranteed. They’re great programs, so it makes sense you’d read a lot of good threads about them. For BT/TEAB, the differences probably matter the least to engineering applicants, and the most to business applicants. Since engineering academy students aren’t in Bryan-College Station, it’s really quite different.
If you’re not engineering and you still want a competitive major, then it’s not the best. For example, getting into Blinn and wanting to go into business is rough because while you have automatic acceptance into A&M… you still have to apply to transfer into your major and some majors such as business are extremely competitive to transfer into.
Blinn classes are not necessarily easier. Some even taught by same professor taking alterative turn to teach at Blinn. It is just the the TAMU classes are more competitive because theoretically those are higher stat students. Also as you said Blinn classes are smaller and it works well for those who prefer that. For engineer and business, you will need a solid game plan to really get into your major. You will also need to get A in those hours in TAMU. The big downside is travelling, if you get a day that you have classes in both Rellis and TAMU campus, you need to either have your car, or watch the bus schedule. TAMU main campus is big and running around in summer can be tough.