I’m not quite sure I understand your point. My DS was told by an Admissions Officer that he was being considered and if chosen, would hear from the Brown Foundation. But later he was told that the Brown Foundation never received his application. We had to learn this from the Brown Foundation. He also had all his info in by December 1st and then we were told he didn’t. He absolutely did. If their system processed it later, that is on them. My DS has 35 on ACT. Not a superscore. That’s what he made as a junior. My DS is now a NMF. He got in EA to Georgia Tech as a OOS engineering applicant. Georgia Tech OOS admission rate for EA this year was about 9 percent. His athletics and extracurricular leadership are outstanding. He should have at least been considered and if not, at least told the truth. Also if the Dec 15th doesn’t apply to Brown, they should be clear about that.
Admission officer is trained to inform applicants to contact Aggie One Stop, which is physically in another building and totally work independently from admission.
Admission office won’t be the one to tell you if Brown get your DS information or not.
Your DS is top notch, cream of the crop anywhere he goes. And by all means Georgia Tech is top option next to MIT.
@Hobbd , you mentioned “I also don’t like the filtering process that Brown has A&M do for them.”
Do you know what they do in terms of filtering? Is it mainly seeing if the applicant checks all the required boxes (NMSF, STEM major, and applied by the deadline)? Or do they also do any subjective filtering such as reading essays or looking at EC’s to judge if they are well-rounded?
@FriscoDad mentioned:
My DD is a junior in a TX HS, is likely to be a NMSF, and will be going into a STEM major. So she should qualify for the Brown. She also has good EC’s, leadership, volunteering, etc. So we think she has a decent chance of being interviewed. All of that being said, we are trying to get a rough guesstimate of her chances of becoming a Brown Scholar.
To FriscoDad or anyone else… Do you happen to know the # of NMSF who applied to TAMU in recent years and plan to major in STEM? Or just the NMSF # without the STEM major… I can assume some high-ish percentage.
I know all of this won’t start happening for my DD until later Fall, but we are trying to determine priority of campus visits to other schools without my DD having to miss too much school.
TIA!
In any year, TAMU has about 150 NMF total enrollment (spanning 4 years so about 40 NMF enrolled). Approximately 700 NMSF applied, with about 350-400 NMSF enrolled in freshmen classes.
All NMSFs apply before document deadline (usually beginning of October and Brown Foundation will state a specific date) will be automatically forwarded to Brown for review. Anything after the October document date will be up to Brown Foundation whether they choose to download the data or not (not likely).
If your student wants to be considered, apply early and make sure everything green-check in AIS by end of September. Your student can still decline TAMU and Brown offer later if getting a better option so there is no reason to apply late. In fact applying late gives them the impression that student treating TAMU as safety.
Unlike holistic review applicants, auto-admit student with strong academic records shouldn’t need to convince how much they want TAMU. Instead focus on their research interest and post graduate contribution to the field.
Sorry for the bump, but there isn’t a 2029 Brown Foundation Scholarship thread yet.
Could someone chance me and explain the process of how scholars are selected? I saw some amazing profiles get rejected and I really need that full ride 
I’m an OOS, Florida resident.
- While our school doesn’t do rankings, my guidance counselor has ranked me top 10%
- My SAT score is 1580 (800 Math + 780 R&W)
- My PSAT score is 1480 (740 Math + 740 R&W) - This score guarantees me Semi-Finalist and I will just need to work on the essay for Finalist, which my guidance counselor is pretty confident that I will be awarded.
- I co-founded my school’s first ever rocketry club and got us to the Nationals-level for the American Rocketry Challenge Competition in our first year
- I have 16 APs, all 4’s and 5’s
- I participated in a research program over the summer that specializes in material science and nuclear engineering (X-Ray detection) and created a poster about my findings and presented at a poster session. (The program was called Young Scholars Program at FSU)
- I am a Media Captain at my school’s rocketry team, 4 year Yearbook student, 4 year literary magazine editor, and won 2 Honorable mentions from the Scholastic Awards for photography.
- I intend to go Early Action for Engineering and hope to get a major in Nuclear Engineering
Please feel free to ask questions about my profile if you need clarification.
Sorry again for the bump.
P.S. Do you know any other scholarships other than Brown that is merit-based that can get me significant money? I know TAMU gives $40k something to National Merit Finalists, but unfortunately that’s still not enough.
Brown Foundation scholarship is AMAZING!!
Incredibly competitive. They’re looking for a wickedly smart student, well rounded, with lots & lots of leadership.
Do NOT miss the initial deadline-that’s critical.
You need have everything fully submitted by Oct 10. They, most likely, won’t even look at applicants after the Oct 10 deadline.
Hopefully you have a great school guidance counselor who can assist you?
@FriscoDad also has great knowledge about the Brown Foundation scholarship…
Thank you for the notice! I thought the deadline was October 15 and that could have been a very sad mistake 
Do you have an idea of what kind of metrics they are looking for? Do you know if my leadership would be enough?
What is your source on this dollar amount? According to their website, National Merit money award is much less than $40k.
My source is the National Scholar Advisor himself!
40k as in a one time thing, not 40k each year
But it’s still a lot of money. Unfortunately, it’s full-ride or nothing for my situation.
Plus, if you look in the Aggie One Stop, it says that
Addem up and you get 42k + 1k study abroad stipend.
While those are nice scholarship numbers, the total cost of attendance is nearly $60k/year(and rising) for OOS. These scholarships would only cover $10k/year maximum.
Yeah, which is not enough for me. Which is why I’m interested in the Brown Scholarship 
@Ethan_K the current Brown Scholar I know was true valedictorian of his 6A high school, band drum major, Eagle Scout, editor of school newspaper (winning multiple state level awards) and baseball player. He was very active in his church, lots of community service thru Scouting and church, and he’s a National Merit scholar.
Brown is looking for off the charts awards & leadership, very high class rank, well rounded and NMSF. Resume needs to be impeccable & organized (no misspelling), and NOT LATE.
NMSF receive in-state tuition price (if OOS), due to minimum $4k per year in academic scholarship. While that doesn’t cover full tuition, it certainly helps.
Man, I guess I’m a little lacking in ECs. Hopefully, it’ll still be enough, though. I’m also waiting on a paper about X-ray detecting materials that I co-authored to be published but there’s no guarantee it’ll be done by October 15.
I’ve come to accept the reality that if it’s not full-ride to TAMU I can’t go, unfortunately.
Brown is phenomenal, but it is very, very competitive. Make sure someone (English teacher, paid college admission person, etc) goes over your application, double checking it. You want your application and essays to stand out and be perfect.
Get your completed application into TAMU as soon as possible! Besides urgency of wanting Brown to review, housing is another issue.
Housing/dorms at A&M is selected in the spring, based on the time stamp $75 non-refundable deposit is paid. Can’t pay housing deposit until official acceptance has been given. The longer you wait to apply, the lower you’ll be on the housing list (and there isn’t enough housing for all freshman).
It never pays to wait for anything at TAMU high stats or not. Trust me on this! Thousands+ applied at 12:01 a.m. August 1st, as admissions are rolling.
Assume you’ve seen this Brown link?
Yep, I’ve seen the link. I’ve got my Common App + Supplementals done. I’m just really waiting on this B to turn into an A and the system for it is so tedious. Do you know if there’s a way to update my transcript past submission or should I just wait for my GPA to bump up a few points. Oh dear, this is pretty stressful suddenly.
Not sure what you’re asking, about gpa changing? A&M wants end of junior year transcript, they don’t look at senior year grades (they do look at senior year course rigor tho).
You can submit updated resume-as in, an award was received after you submitted.
Does that make sense?
Not kidding, when I say EVERYTHING needs to be treated with a sense of urgency, at A&M. It’s a HUGE school! ’Snooze you Lose’ could be the unofficial theme 
It never pays to wait. The Brown thread last year had incredible candidates griping and moaning, because their student didn’t get an interview. Came down to prying, and the students submitted everything just shy of December 1, or submitted past October 10…WAY TOO LATE.
Because you’re applying for Engineering (which is holistic review for all students) and OOS, you need to get that application in!