<p>We know the National Merit group will get merit aid. I know that group is going to be taken care of, and rightly so. But there are other awards out there that next year's applicants should know about. </p>
<p>Post your awards! Local scholarships, organizational scholarships, your folks employer''s scholarships, Aggie Mom's, 4H, FFA ... whatever you have received. </p>
<p>If you have been awarded it, let's applaud it and share the news with future applicants.</p>
<p>I was granted a waver of non-resident tuition which means I only have to pay in-state tuition for all four years if I maintain a GPA over 2.75 - valued by TAMU at $15,300,000/yr</p>
<p>I also got 4K from the Opportunity Award Scholarship which will be made in payments of 1K/yr</p>
<p>Yes! Good work, nasagirl :)</p>
<p>i got a 4 year lechner scholarship at 10,000 over four years. then i got a 1K opportunity award. it’s still not enough for me, though :/</p>
<p>For those who have obtained scholarships for Fall 2011, when were you notified? Also did you have automatic admission into the school?</p>
<p>^ I was notified in mid-February by letter and I was an auto admit</p>
<p>Congrats to you all! There is quite a bit of competition for these awards. :)</p>
<p>As more receive scholarships, please post them.</p>
<p>fishgirl: For Texas A&M non-NMS that scholarship is exactly the amount you should expect to receive unless you get departmental which are usually around 500-1k a year</p>
<p>My daughter is a National Merit Finalist and she recieved notice in October of the NM Recognition and Presidential Endowed Scholarships. Which are very good; however, we were told by her HS Counselor and by A&M Financial Aid office in the Fall that there would likely be more added to this in February. After many calls and checking the mail…daily…we were told that there wouldn’t be another offer, but we could send in the “full ride” offers from other schools and they would review to see if they could match them. </p>
<p>Last week we recieved notice that they couldn’t offer more. I think one reason is due to the Texas budget issues and they don’t know how much they will receive from the state. </p>
<p>We are still pleased with the scholarships and we hope to get another one from my company. There is also a possibility she will get the NM Sponsorship Scholarship, but we won’t know until May. Plus, we have the Texas Tomorrow Fund (old plan), so really our Tuition and fees are covered anyway. Every little bit helps, though, since my daughter’s plan is to go to Medical School. </p>
<p>That is what we have at this point and she opted to not apply for some of the local scholarships since we really wouldn’t qualify for true “financial need” and many of them required a lot of work on her part and she is suffering from a major case of “senioritis” and is really just doing enough “work” to get through and graduate.</p>
<p>what did you expect then?
Sounds like you have it pretty much covered!
we bought texas tomorrow fund for our daughter when she was four. It covers most evderything - with exception of parking, rec center, bus and sports pass.<br>
the scholarships my daughter has received have gone into the tuition - pays the excess the texas tommorow fund does not cover then is refunded to us. That money has paid for books, and towards living expenses. She just received a departmental scholarship, that money after it is refunded to us will go into an account to cover her semester abroad.</p>
<p>The scholarship offers from some of the other schools were more complete…basically - come here and you don’t pay for anything, plus we will pay for a semester abroad plus a tech credit. And since we were told the offer we originally received was a “minimum”, we just thought there would be more. If we didn’t have the Texas Tomorrow Fund, we would have had to seriously consider the other schools.</p>
<p>It is a state supported school… typically dont get a lot of money from state schools vs private schools.</p>
<p>^I guess I might be an exception then.</p>
<p>Connects Scholarship: $5,000.00 (renewable 1 year, $10,000 total)
Opportunity Award Scholarship: $1,000.00
FEA Anticipated Scholarship: $2,000.00 (renewable 3 years, $8,000 total)
Valero Alamo Bowl Scholarship: $4,000.00 (my own outside scholarship)
Joseph & Patty Mueller Scholarship: $3,000.00 (renewable 1 year, $6,000 total)
Federal Pell Grant: $5,550.00
Regents Scholarship: $989.00 ($5,000/year for 4 years, $20,000 total, was reduced for '11-'12 because of little need left over from other scholarships)</p>
<p>Total for year one: $21,539.00
Total for year two: $15,000.00
Total for year three: $7,000.00
Total for year four: $7,000.00</p>
<p>Other than the Pell Grant and my outside scholarship, it’s all from A&M. I am in-state.</p>
<p>ajm268 - you are sittin’ pretty;) Congratulations!
are these scholarships under the Aggie Assurance program?</p>
<p>My son was awarded some really great scholarships. He was notified in mid-February. Several are departmental (engineering), some (the largest) are privately funded through corporations that have close ties to the university, and some are National Merit related. Until last year, when I began hearing about a few others who had free-rides to A&M, I was not aware that state schools could offer such great merit-based scholarships. We are VERY, VERY grateful! What a blessing!</p>
<p>^That’s great SimpleLife! Congrats to your son! I qualified for National Merit Scholar on the practice PSAT, but when it came to the real deal I fell a bit short. I guess it didn’t really affect me, but it would have been nice.</p>
<p>klparker312 - Thank you! I’m not sure if any are under Aggie Assurance, although I do qualify for it. The Joseph & Patty Mueller scholarship is for being in E12. The Connects scholarship is need-based from the engineering department and the FEA scholarship had a separate application from the Texas A&M Foundation. The Regents is also need-based (I guess that’s why I didn’t get the Century Scholarship). I wasn’t told the name for the Opportunity Award, I’ll learn more about that after May 1st, but I suppose that could be under Aggie Assurance. I received it before most of my other awards though, so I don’t rightly know.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone, and congratulations to those that have received scholarships. I hope you all get more.</p>
<p>Awesome. I was wondering how it worked, I’m glad you were able to get such nice scholarships.</p>