***** Scholarships merit Class of 2019 *****

Barfly
Wed, 18 Mar 2015 01:23:55 +0000

Just posting to answer a few questions posed here. Yes, you can stack the valedictorian free tuition on other scholarships. No, you do not have to do a FAFSA for merit scholarships at A&M. Yes, scholarships and amounts are posted on Howdy, but some are slow to post: National Merit money will not post until later (after A&M is notified that it was named as your first choice), departmental scholarships are often slow to post also because the department has to notify Scholarships and Financial Aid that you were selected. So you may get your snail mail update before it shows on Howdy.

Even after A&M says all the money has been handed out, don’t lose hope. My S1 was offered more money late in the summer and even more after he started his freshman year. Then he had 2 scholarships increased from $3K per year to $4K per year then to $5K per year by his junior year. This was not the case for S2 - his amounts never increased after about this time of year when he was a HS senior. I don’t expect my current HS senior S3 to be offered any more than what he has now. Howdy does not yet show everything for him but he has been notified so we know what to expect from A&M.

Don’t forget that some scholarship recipients will decide to attend another school so those scholarships may be offered late in the game!