TAMU Honors Money

[Barfly]

@Beaudreau, thanks for the link! I completely agree that certain conservative activities reduce a student’s admission chances at some schools! I guess the flip side is that the students might not be happy anyway at such a place. Maybe it happens the other way around as well - where more “liberal” activities can hurt acceptance chances, but maybe that would only be at a religious university. I’ve never heard of it happening though.

A&M is pretty conservative, so it seems that Eagle Scout rank, Boys and Girls State, ROTC, etc. are given appropriate consideration.

My son wrote an essay that was probably well received at A&M, but he used the same essay for other applications. We mentioned to him that it might not be well received in other cases, but he stuck with it.

[AGmomx2]

Just saw one for vet school - it is part of the criteria http://vetmed.tamu.edu/news/patsy-nichols-“heart-of-service”-endowed-scholarship-established-at-texas-am-college-of-veterinary-medicine-biomedical-sciences Wouldn’t be too surprised if there are a few more, just not advertised as such but part of the preference for candidates. There was also one about aero engineering, the deceased honoree was also an eagle scout so I would imagine that would be a plus too http://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2014/02/25/widow-of-lockheed-martin-executive-endows-scholarship-in-his-honor I don’t think all the criteria is revealed for every scholarship, just when they are initially announced. There were three new ones in the business school - one required membership in certain fraternity, another military ties & the third BHP. Many of the scholarships especially department based ones, reward specific criteria. I guess that is why the continuing student app is so long!