Hi Folks, the disclosure process for scholarships is ongoing after you are admitted to A&M. There are several good and even two incredible top of the line flagship full ride scholarships that A&M offers: https://scholarships.tamu.edu/Scholarship-Programs and https://admissions.tamu.edu/freshman/national-scholars
If you are NMSF and are offered the Brown scholarship, you will get a full ride based on three scholarships: the Brown, Presidents Endowed and National Merit Scholarship stacking up. You can also keep any additional outside scholarship.
The other big full ride scholarship is the Brockman: https://brockmanfoundation.org/scholarship-program/
The Brockman makes you give up all other possible scholarship(s) as it covers everything and I mean everything for 5 years plus a laptop and study abroad.
These two scholarships are the big ones. There are other good but smaller ones but these two are the flagships.
If you met the requirements and didn’t get selected to interview for the Brown, you could have applied for the Brockman to go through the two interview rounds.
If you didn’t meet the requirements for these two or any of the other big ones, then if you even get $ 500 from A&M, it’s a big deal and you should consider yourself fortunate. Many kids get outside scholarships to go to A&M as well so there are plenty of funding sources. It’s just whether you find out about them.