someone enlighten me

[SHAG69]

I just spoke with Hollis Miles and he stated that you can get "kicked" out of various undergraduate majors at A&M. I am familiar with grad schools having a minimum standard, but Undergrads?:huh:

[thissamguy]

Hollis would know!

[Loftin]

I just spoke with Hollis Miles and he stated that you can get "kicked" out of various undergraduate majors at A&M. I am familiar with grad schools having a minimum standard, but Undergrads?:huh:

The University minimum is 2.0.

[SHAG69]

meaning, you must maintain a 2.0 average to stay in?

[The Massacre]

i am an Industrial Distribution major and i'm pretty sure that we had to maintain a certain GPA for our major specific classes and it was higher than the univ. min.

[TwelfthAG]

Yes. Otherwise you go on scholastic probation. Then if you do it again you get kicked out.

[Superaggie79]

You can get kicked out all the way to Ag Development. After that they just tell you to go home.

[SHAG69]

i am an Industrial Distribution major and i'm pretty sure that we had to maintain a certain GPA for our major specific classes and it was higher than the univ. min.


Kinda diverse Tro! cpa, attorney, ID?

[SHAG69]

Does A&M offer internet courses/majors? What is the easiest major?

[hmiles619]

wow, thanks for airing my laundry...lol....its totally major dependent.....

I only failed one class in the business school during my entire career....it took me below a 2.0 and i was gone...no probation, no nothing. I was definitely surprised. Now I'm an Ag major...whoops

[hmiles619]

easiest major is probably ag...but i've heard communications is pretty easy too

[Superaggie79]

You can take some internet courses but not an entire majors worth. The easiest route is Ag Development and you get to hang out with the athletes... just hope you don't get in a group project with them.

[Superaggie79]

easiest major is probably ag...but i've heard communications is pretty easy too
You can't lump all of ag into one. Animal Science with the science option is a bitch.

[Dustin00whoop]

Let the expert step in on this one...I can tell you that in '96 if you didn't maintain a 2.5 GPR in Biochemistry they kicked you out. You could apply for reinstatement on a probationary status, but if you didn't bring it back up to a 2.5 GPR the next semester you were gone again. You could still apply to a different degree program, they just wouldn't allow you in Biochem anymore.

[SHAG69]

I didn't say you got kicked out!!! I thought I disguised it pretty well. sorry!

[hmiles619]

sorry, meant ag development

[Superaggie79]

They pull your schollie really quick if you drop below a 2.75 :(

[hmiles619]

no its cool shag...i'm not embarassed

[SHAG69]

I think I'll explore Ag development,

[hmiles619]

did you get into some trouble Shag? if so the person you want to talk to is dr. joe townsend

[Dustin00whoop]

if so the person you want to talk to is dr. joe townsend

Truer words have never been typed.

[Superaggie79]

I miss Hesby he was my go to guy :(

[Burnetaggie99]

Same in Electrical Engineering. When I was there you had to stay above 2.5 GPA or you got put on Probo and then if you didn't bring your GPA up on probo it was goodbye to Engineering.

[TwelfthAG]

Just get all A's and you won't have to worry about it ;)

[Burnetaggie99]

Hesby was great. He was always sporting that flatop hair cut. I was was in Animal Science for 2 years before switching over to Electrical Engineering. Townsend is great also. Dr. Skaggs was always helping me out also.

[Superaggie79]

Yeah skaggs is/was my advisor

[macduff93]

Same in Electrical Engineering. When I was there you had to stay above 2.5 GPA or you got put on Probo and then if you didn't bring your GPA up on probo it was goodbye to Engineering.


I remember it being higher than that for EE's (like 2.75 or 3.0) when I was there because of the competition. Civil E was not as strict, but I don't recall what the minimum was....thank God!

[Burnetaggie99]

I can't remember if it was 2.5 or 2.75 that's been over 7 years ago.

[TwelfthAG]

FWIW, Civil is 2.75 in the first two years and 2.0 there after.

[dogdoc]

You can't lump all of ag into one. Animal Science with the science option is a bitch.

It wasn't that bad... :)














Compared to Vet School.:D

[Burnetaggie99]

That's why I changed Majors because I had no chance of getting into Vet School. I had a 3.7 GPA. I know alot of guys who tried 4 or 5 times to get in and never did.

[dogdoc]

There were 3 or four years on either side of the year that I applied where they really were scaping to bottom of the bucket. A 3.7 and a decent m-cat score would have gotten you in easily. It apparently went in cycles back then. They would have six to seven hundred applicants for several years in a row, then have only two or three hundred. We even had a tech grad and a couple of sips in our class.

[Superaggie79]

A guy wanting to do large animal has pretty good odds these days after flooding the school with women and small animal vets.

[Burnetaggie99]

Wish that would of been the case back then. Sometime I regret giving up and changing majors. I had worked since I was 14 in the summers for Dr. McBride here in Burnet and even did a intern with him hoping I could get in to Vet School. I worked with cattle,sheep,goats, and horses my whole life on our ranch. I was talking about this with a new vet here at DR. McBride's office and he said the days of people like me who come from the country working with animals are over and he also said like you did that women have taken over. I enjoy electrical engineering but my passion is working with animals on the ranch.

[Superaggie79]

It'd be tough to do now... even if you got in at a&m that'd mean moving and the next closest place to go is Mississippi state