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UT-Austin has some money for merit aid, especially for NMF. I know my son (commended - missed NMF by a point or two) was offered about 3/4 tuition & fees, renewable each year. Didn’t cover R&B, etc, but I was favorably impressed. Rice U is costing us about the same as UT, and he is loving it. 
I know Texas Tech offered him basically a full-ride between the automatic scholarship and an endowed one, and there would have been lots of merit aid at UT-Dallas, had he cared to apply - so there is merit aid in the systems.</p>