Is Texas A&M known to give scholarships to OOS applicants. If so, with my stats do you think I can get a scholarship if I am applying for computer engineering???
My Stats:
ACT: 32 (will this be good enough for a scholarship?)
E:31, M:35, R:27, S:35
UW GPA: 3.92
W GPA 10-11: 4.17
W GPA 9-11: 4.08
Class Rank: School does not rank
SAT Subject Tests:
Chem: 750
Math 2: 800
Physics: 760
AP Scores:
Physics 1: 4
Physics 2: 3
Stats: 5
My High School is the #11 public school in California
Freshman Year Grades
English 9A: B/A
CP Biology: A/A
PE: A/A
Honors Geometry: A/A+
Spanish 2: A/A-
Geography/Health: A/A-(repectively)
Sophmore Year Grades
Spanish 3: A/A-
World History: A/A
Chemistry: A/A
PE: A/A
English 10A: A/A
Honors Algebra 2/Trig: B/A-
Junior Year Grades
English 11A: A/A
Art 1: A/A
Honors Pre-Calculus: A/A-
AP Stats: A/A-
AP Physics 1: B/A
CP US History: A/A
Senior Year Courseload:
AP Physics C, AP Calc B/C, AP Computer Science A, AP Human Geography, English 12A, CP Gov/Econ
California Resident
Income: about $100k-150k
I have decent essays.
I do have a 5 week internship at Cisco (200 hours)
130 Volunteer hours at ICC (table tennis center which is known to compete in the Olympics)
10 Hours at my local food shelter
Member of the Comp Sci Club
4 years on Cross Country
as well as other smaller EC’s
Hey spamuser, I am a TAMU OOS alum who’s DD is now in the college search process. Being a NMF might be the “easiest” way to an OOS scholarship, but definitely not the only way. At A&M, if you receive ANY competitive scholarship worth $1,000 or more (doesn’t have to be from A&M, just open to applicants on a national level, I believe) then you will be awarded a Non-resident Tuition Waiver which gives you instate tuition. Suddenly, that tiny scholarship becomes very valuable & makes A&M a relative bargain! Any departmental scholarships that you might receive on top of this is just icing on the cake.
In general, Aggies are extremely friendly & down-to-earth. Just be prepared to answer “why A&M” repeatedly when people find out that you are OOS. When I was there, OOS was 5%. There were quite a few students that were technically instate, but were raised in other parts of the country/world due to corporate parent transfers & military families, so it felt like there were many more OOS students than the stats showed.
Non-Resident Tuition Waiver
A non-resident student who holds a competitive academic scholarship of at least $1000 (or the amount required for eligibility by the Texas Education Code) for the academic year or summer for which the student is enrolled may be eligible to pay the fees and charges required of Texas residents without regard to the length of time the student has resided in Texas.
The student must have competed with other students, including Texas residents, for the scholarship and ** the scholarship must be awarded by a Texas A&M University college or departmental scholarship committee or university representative.** An outside donor may be consulted for input by the college or departmental unit, however outside donor(s) may not make the final selection of the student recipient for a scholarship.
Students may receive this waiver at the discretion of the University and in compliance with the limit on the number of waivers allowed by the State of Texas.
@spamuser You will be an academic admit provided TAMU assigns you a rank of top 25% (unranked students are assigned ranks by the admission department based on school profile submitted with transcript by your high school -assigning quartile only 1st, 2nd, etc). Academic admits can be instate or out of state, your residency is NOT considered. The school by Texas law has to admit all top 10% Texas students,but that does not fill their entire freshman class. Top 10% plus academic admits do however fill roughly 85% of freshman admits. The remaining 15% of admits only had a 13% chance of full admission through holistic review. It is tough to get into this school without qualifying for automatic admission.
There is no recipe for scholarships, a certain rank + score does not guarantee anything here. Each student is individually considered for all scholarships they qualify for but competition is stiff. Your chances will depend on who you have in the pool of scholarship candidates for each scholarship. NMF are guaranteed a scholarship, those are the only guarantees. The vast majority of OOS Corps of Cadets also receive scholarships that are eligible for the waiver, but it is not guaranteed, just highly likely. Everything you submit for your application is what is considered for your freshman year scholarships. Your application is automatically forwarded to any/all scholarships you may qualify for, and decisions are made after the acceptance process for the vast majority of scholarships (they don’t come with your acceptance like some other schools). Hope this helps! Good luck!
My daughter, OOS, ACT 34 and academic auto-admit, received an extremely generous merit scholarship, applying to Arts & Sciences, although she just missed NMSF.
Be aware that TAMU requires a 3.5 GPA to keep most/all of your merit awards. for eng’g majors, that can be very difficult. You don’t want to lose your award and then have to leave the school.