<p>I am hearing a lot now that white people with low EFC's do not get financial aid, grants or scholarships-need based. Is this true? I mean..not just, would you like it to not be true..but IS it true? It is starting to come off that if I had all the same stats, or even a higher EFC, I would have gotten better financial aid. My cousin, who is Hispanic (half Hispanic, she is my bio cousin) has a higher EFC than me and even she got grants and such, but a couple years ago was when she started. I know they are not supposed to base financial aid on race, but really, how they allocated their aid is making very little sense. And by reading this board, it is hard to tell when someone says they got X grants/scholarships with Y EFC, what their race is. I do think this is a sensitive issue, but something that should be discussed.</p>
<p>It’s not.</p>
<p>Texas A&M cannot consider race in the awarding of financial aid. A&M can target specific high schools in an effort to increased the number of students enrolled from those schools; i.e., Century Scholars program, but race is not a factor in the awards. Regent scholarships are targeted at first generation students. GTF scholarships target students from early college high schools. Texas A&M Foundation can award scholarships with minority status as a factor since they are a private foundation: i.e., Foundation Excellence Award. All of this information is openly available through the Scholarship/financial aid pages on A&M’s website. </p>
<p>Nope. It’s not true at all. I personally know several white people who were offered extremely generous scholarship packages. </p>
<p>Here are some articles that may shed some light on the question - </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/09/06/merit_based_and_private_scholarships_disproportionately_favor_white_students”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/09/06/merit_based_and_private_scholarships_disproportionately_favor_white_students</a></p>
<p><a href=“Your Guide for College Financial Aid - Finaid”>Your Guide for College Financial Aid - Finaid;
<p><a href=“Financial Aid Myth Busting - ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■”>https://www.■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■/financial-aid/financial-aid-information/financial-aid-myth-busting/</a></p>
<p>"Here are some articles that may shed some light on the question -</p>
<p>I keep seeing this article posted as proof, but it is actually three years old and is based off a study that used data from the years 2003 - 2008.</p>
<p>Also the conclusion of the study is that in the years 2003 - 2008 whites were more likely to receive merit based and private scholarships than other racial minorities.</p>
<p>So I really don’t see how it is relevant now in 2014, especially since in 2010 major changes were made by Congress to how student financial aid is handled.</p>
<p>I don’t know the answer to the question whether race plays a part or not. We’ve seen some interesting indications of that on this forum this year, and my own family has seen major, unexplainable changes in financial aid over the past two years, but these are purely anecdotal. </p>
<p>My point is that this article being sited as “proof” is really nothing of the sort.</p>
<p>Note the articles were offered in hopes of aiding the requestor in acquiring information and knowledge in the subject area. Not as “proof” (I never used that word) of anything. </p>
<p>Ok. I was just pointing out that this one particular article that is referenced often seems to be outdated. So I question the value of the “information and knowledge” that can be acquired from it.</p>