We are pleased to announce the Katy A&M Club will award four (4) $2,000 scholarships to Katy area high school students who plan to start their freshman year at Texas A&M University in the fall semester of 2024.
Read below for the eligibility and selection criteria. The application and a full list of guidelines can be downloaded by clicking on the links below.
Katy A&M Club Scholarship Guidelines 2024
Katy A&M Club Scholarship Application 2024
Eligibility
Eligible students must meet all the following requirements:
1. Live in or receive education within the Katy Independent School District boundaries,
including home schools and private schools.
2. Be a high school senior.
3. Already applied for admission to Texas A&M University for the upcoming fall semester.
The student need not have been accepted to A&M prior to submitting this scholarship
application, but the payment of the scholarship award monies is contingent upon their
acceptance and enrollment at Texas A&M University for the 2024 fall semester.
Other Financial Aid
It is the policy of the Katy A&M Club to assist as many students as possible with available
scholarship funds. Accordingly, in the event a recipient obtains significant financial
assistance from other sources, the Katy A&M Club reserves the right to review the award
status and withdraw the scholarship.
Criteria for Selection
The Katy A&M Club Scholarship Committee will choose recipients using the following factors and weights:
- Financial need: 30%
- High school grades and college entrance exam scores: 20%
- Extracurricular activities, community involvement, and work experience: 20%
- Essays and a letter of recommendation from principal, teacher, or community leader: 30%
Winners will be determined without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin,
age, or disability.
Deadline and Other Information
1. Please use electronic application form to complete, then print, and mail.
2. Application with supporting documents must be RECEIVED by March 22, 2024
3. Scholarship recipients will be notified during the second week of April.
4. Scholarship recipients will provide the Katy A&M Club with their TAMU UIN# and an
electronic color photograph of themselves within five days of being notified.
5. Scholarship recipients will be introduced and recognized for their accomplishments as part
of the Katy A&M Club Aggie Muster ceremony on April 21, 2024.
6. Funds will be disbursed through the Texas A&M University Financial Aid Office.
7. In some instances, phone interviews may be conducted
Tips on Applying for a Scholarship from the Katy A&M Club
We are glad you want to attend Texas A&M and we wish you success in your college career.
We evaluate every scholarship application very carefully. We choose our recipients based on
financial need, academic achievement, and general factors such as motivation, community
service, letters of recommendation, and the impression that your application provides to us.
We only know about your motivation, community service, and you as a person from what you
tell us about yourself, and how you tell us about yourself. Both are important and can
influence our decision.
We hope these tips and frequently asked questions will be helpful to you. While this advice
may seem obvious, we receive applications every year that include mistakes covered here.
- Start working on this application early. We can tell who spent time and effort on the application and who did not. The short essays will require time to do well.
- Make it easy for the committee to learn about you – use the electronic Word document. Every year we receive scholarship applications from students who hand-write the application; however, a typed application is definitely more professional. If you handwrite your application, please print and use a black pen.
- Do some research about A&M. Even if everyone in your family graduated from A&M, browse through some recent publications and/or visit the A&M website at https://www.tamu.edu/.
- Write clearly. You do not have to write prize-winning prose; just give us clear and complete sentences in formal English. Write something and then read it aloud to see how it sounds. If you make careless errors, we will conclude that you do not take the scholarship seriously.
- When you are finished, proofread your application. Read it aloud. Proofread it again!
