The rules and procedures for awarding scholarships from the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Endowment Scholarship Fund administered by the Department of Agricultural Sciences at Texas A&M University-Commerce are as follows.  At present no student may receive more than $1500 per academic year from this scholarship fund.  The awards are restricted to Texas residents only.  Students who have a scholarship awarded directly by the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (FFA or 4-H) are not eligible for the A&M-Commerce scholarship.

The following rules apply to all recipients of scholarships awarded through the Department of Agricultural Sciences.
 

1. A minimum of 12 semester hours must be taken and completed each semester in order to be eligible for any award.
2. Each semester that the scholarship is received, the student must enroll until after the 12th Class Day in at least one, 3 to 4 semester hour agricultural sciences course.
3. A cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 and a semester minimum grade point average of 3.0 must be maintained to remain eligible for consideration for further awards.
4. Awards are made based on availability of funds in direct competition with all Agricultural Sciences majors.

Freshman Awards

These scholarships are awarded during the Spring semester prior to the student's entry into Texas A&M University-Commerce the following fall. Applications are due by April 20.  Awardees are generally beginning college students, however, applicants who are concurrently enrolled in high school and college are also eligible for these awards.  Scholarship awards are for the Fall semester only.  Upon registration as a full-time student majoring in a program in the Agricultural Sciences Department, the funds will be disbursed to aid in defraying tuition, fees and/or textbooks.

If the awardee is successful in obtaining a minimum 3.0 grade point average on at least 12 semester hours of academic courses at Texas A&M University-Commerce, he/she will become eligible to compete with other Agricultural Sciences majors for additional scholarship monies from the Houston Endowment. Future awards after the first semester will be based on the formula published for all continuing students.

Transfer Students and Non-scholarship A&M-Commerce students

Scholarship applications for transfer students and non-scholarship A&M-Commerce students are due by June 15 of each year.  Transcripts of all college work should be submitted that reflect the latest semester that the student has enrolled.  These rules also apply to students presently attending Texas A&M University-Commerce, but who are not presently on scholarship.

Minimum cumulative grade point average is 3.0.  Transfer students from Texas colleges and universities are eligible for these awards.  To the extent that funds are available the transfer award will be $300.

Continuing Students

Students who have previously been awarded a scholarship from this fund will be eligible for continuing assistance if he/she meets all criteria cited above (rules 1 through 4).

The following formula will apply to continuing students.

Award Amount= [(Number of grade points earned the previous semester at Texas A&M University-Commerce minus 39) times $10]+ $250.00