Scholarships from TAMU

kknight911
Sat, 30 Aug 2014 04:36:11 +0000

My son was accepted to TAMU ace scholars program for engineering and was all set to go until we saw the financial aid pkg. He was top 7 percent of his class, took 10 ap classes and exams, received distinguished scholar from college board for ap, 2040 SAT, 3.75 GPA, national honors society etc. he received $2500 grant offer from A&M but got $9000 grant from ut Austin. Our family efc was $8338. We were very dissappointed considering all the sites indicated they give 78 percent aid on avg. there was no way I was paying 20 grand for my child to go to A&M per year. We were smart enough to fund Texas tomorrow fund so we ended up paying an additional 5 grand per year at ut Austin. A lot of good students not exceptional at my sons school got $0. We are in state. He started this fall at UT