What is the scholarship application deadline?

No deadline date is published on the scholarships page. It says students 'must be accepted for admission and submit a scholarship application for the appropriate scholarship and semester,' with downloadable applications for new freshmen and for current/transfer students. Ask the aid office for the current-cycle deadline.

Do I need the FAFSA for a Texas College merit scholarship?

The page says 'It is recommended that all scholarship applicants complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).' For the Achievement and Transfer awards, applying for federal aid is a listed eligibility requirement. Texas College's school code is 003638.

How are academic scholarships awarded?

Per the page: 'Awarding of academic scholarships is based primarily on predictors of academic success, such as high school class rank, standardized test scores and prior grades. Additional consideration will be given to leadership qualities socioeconomic background and status as a first generation college student.'

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Texas College scholarships and merit aid

DRAFT: Texas College (a small private HBCU in Tyler, TX) publishes a clear three-tier freshman scholarship ladder (Presidential / Dean's / Honors) with stated GPA and ACT/SAT cutoffs — but every award requires a separate scholarship application and the top award covers only tuition, not room and board.

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The short answer

Is Texas College worth a closer look?

Texas College may be worth checking, but its awards do not follow a simple grades-and-scores chart. Start with the published scholarships below.

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Published scholarships

These amounts and requirements come from the school’s own published pages. Open an award to see who qualifies and how to keep it.

Up to full tuition

Presidential Scholarship Program

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GPA: 3.8 or higher
SAT: 1060
ACT: 23 or above

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Who qualifies

High school graduate; Top ten percent of high school class; must be accepted for admission and submit a scholarship application

How to keep it

Must enroll in at least fifteen (15) semester hours and pass twelve (12) semester hours per semester; Maintain 3.7 or higher G.P.A. and remain in good standing with the College

Notes

Four-year scholarship for incoming freshmen only. Amount is stated as 'Up to the cost of tuition' — tuition only, NOT fees, room, or board. Limited number of scholarships available; separate scholarship application required, so not automatic on stats.

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$4,000

Dean's Scholarship Program

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GPA: 3.5 or higher
SAT: 990
ACT: 21 or above

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Who qualifies

High school graduate; must be accepted for admission and submit a scholarship application

How to keep it

Must enroll in at least fifteen (15) semester hours and pass twelve (12) semester hours per semester; Maintain 3.5 or higher G.P.A. and remain in good standing with the College

Notes

Offered to incoming freshmen for up to eight (8) semesters or four (4) years. $4,000 per academic year. Separate scholarship application required.

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$3,000

Honors Scholarship Program

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GPA: 3.0 or higher
SAT: 860
ACT: 18 or above

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Who qualifies

High school graduate; must be accepted for admission and submit a scholarship application

How to keep it

Must enroll in at least fifteen (15) semester hours and pass twelve (12) semester hours per semester; Maintain 3.0 or higher G.P.A. and remain in good standing with the College

Notes

Offered to incoming freshmen for up to eight (8) semesters or four (4) years. $3,000 per academic year. Separate scholarship application required.

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$2,000

Transfer Scholarship Award

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GPA: 2.7 in transfer

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Who qualifies

Enroll in and maintain 15 or more hours; Apply for federal aid; Apply with a Texas College Scholarship Application; Have an unmet financial need

How to keep it

Must enroll in and maintain 15 or more hours; Must maintain a 2.7 G.P.A. and remain in good standing with the College

Notes

Distinct transfer-merit track. $2,000 per academic year, four-year scholarship for transfer students. Includes a NEED gate ('unmet financial need'), so it is not purely merit.

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$2,000

Achievement Scholarship Award

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GPA: 2.7 or higher

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Who qualifies

Returning students; Have completed 31 or more credit hours; Apply for federal financial aid; Apply for UNCF on-line scholarships; Apply with a Texas College Scholarship Application; Have an unmet financial need

How to keep it

Must enroll in and maintain 15 or more hours; Must maintain a 2.7 G.P.A. and remain in good standing with the College

Notes

For returning (current) students, not freshmen. Requires unmet financial need AND registering for UNCF online scholarships — unusual extra step.

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Rules that could change the answer

These are the rules we would flag for your family. Each comes from Texas College's published information.

Renewal rulePresidential Scholarship Program: renewal floor that quietly knocks awards out
Must enroll in at least fifteen (15) semester hours and pass twelve (12) semester hours per semester; Maintain 3.7 or higher G.P.A. and remain in good standing with the College A single rough term can end a four-year award here without warning if the GPA floor isn't met cumulatively.

What families often miss

Assuming the Presidential Scholarship is a full ride.
The page states the amount is 'Up to the cost of tuition' — tuition only. It does not cover the $900/semester student fees, room ($2,100/semester), or board ($1,900/semester) shown on the Tuition & Fees page, and even the tuition portion is 'up to,' not guaranteed in full.
Assuming you get a scholarship automatically because you meet the GPA/ACT cutoffs.
The scholarships page says 'A limited number Texas College funded and endowed scholarships are available. To be considered, students must be accepted for admission and submit a scholarship application for the appropriate scholarship and semester.' Meeting the stats only makes you eligible to apply; awards are limited in number.
Missing the renewal cliff: Presidential renewal requires a 3.7 GPA — higher than many schools' renewal bars — plus enrolling in 15 hours and passing 12 every semester.
Each tier has its own renewal GPA (Presidential 3.7, Dean's 3.5, Honors 3.0, Achievement/Transfer 2.7) and all require enrolling in at least 15 semester hours. Dropping to 12 enrolled hours can cost the award even with a strong GPA.
Transfer and Achievement awards are not pure merit — they have a financial-need gate.
Both list 'Have an unmet financial need' and federal-aid application as eligibility requirements; the Achievement award additionally requires registering for UNCF online scholarships. A 2.7+ student with no unmet need may be ineligible.
Assuming outside scholarships stack freely with Texas College awards.
None of the pages opened state how outside/private scholarships interact with institutional awards or whether a cost cap applies. Families should ask the aid office directly before counting on stacking.

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Who this school may work for

DRAFT: Students with a 3.0+ GPA and an 18+ ACT / 860+ SAT who are willing to file a separate scholarship application; the strongest profiles (3.8 GPA, top 10% of class, 23 ACT / 1060 SAT) can compete for up-to-full-tuition Presidential money.

Published yearly cost: Approximately $18,008 for 2026-2027 (page year not labeled for fall/spring table; summer table says 2025-2026 — see Section C). Source

Cost and graduation facts

Federal reporting on who actually enrolls at Texas College, what they paid after aid, and what happened next — independent of anything the school markets.

Average annual net price by family income at Texas College, academic year 2021-22
Family income	Average net price paid
$0–$30,000	$9,639
$30,001–$48,000	$11,342
$48,001–$75,000	$12,410
$75,001–$110,000	$13,598
$110,001+	$16,106
All income levels (average)	$10,958

Sticker price vs. what students actually pay

Published tuition & fees, AY 2022-23: $10,008
Average net price paid (all Title-IV aid), AY 2021-22: $10,958

That works out to roughly a 46% discount below the federal AY 2021-22 average cost of attendance of $20,339 (College Scorecard — a separate, federally reported figure, not the published cost of attendance shown above).

Outcomes for students who enrolled here

Graduation rate (150% of normal time), 2016 cohort: 14%
First-year retention rate, 2021 cohort: 34%
Median debt at completion, 2020–2021 completers: $31,000 (~$329/mo on a 10-yr plan)
Median earnings, 10 years after entry (measured 2020-21): $33,752
Share of students receiving a Pell grant, AY 2021-22: 80%
Share of students receiving a federal loan, AY 2021-22: 50%

How to read these numbers

Net price reflects only first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students who received federal Title IV financial aid — not Texas College's full student body.
Published tuition is the catalog sticker price for all students, not a Title IV-only figure.
Graduation rate reflects the entire first-time, full-time, degree-seeking cohort — not only students who received Title IV aid.
Retention rate reflects all first-time, full-time, bachelor's-seeking students — not only Title IV aid recipients.
Median debt reflects only completers who took out federal student loans — not Texas College's full graduating class, and not limited to first-time, full-time students.
Median earnings reflect Title IV aid recipients who entered college and were working (not enrolled) roughly a decade later — not necessarily the graduating cohort, and not a recent graduate's paycheck.
Pell grant and federal loan participation covers first-time, full-time, degree-seeking students only.
Net price blends need-based aid and merit aid together — it is not a merit-specific estimate. It shows what similar-income families actually paid on average after every kind of aid, not what a strong-stats student could win in merit dollars alone. Treat it as cost context, not a merit forecast — a MeritPlaybook models merit aid specifically for your student’s own stats, which this net-price figure cannot do.

None of this is current-year data — the U.S. Department of Education reports it on a delay, and different figures below come from different reporting years. Net price is an academic year 2021-22 figure. Published tuition reflects the 2022-23 academic year. Graduation rate reflects the Fall 2016 entering, full-time, first-time, degree/certificate-seeking cohort; completion measured within 150% of normal time (~6 years for a bachelor's degree). IPEDS Graduation Rates component (C150_4). Retention reflects the Fall 2021 full-time, first-time, bachelor's-seeking cohort retained into the following fall. IPEDS Fall Enrollment component (RET_FT4). Median debt reflects the NSLDS FY2020 and FY2021 pooled completer cohorts (GRAD_DEBT_MDN, GRAD_DEBT_MDN10YR_SUPP). Median earnings reflect the Treasury-matched cohort entering college in AY2009-10 or AY2010-11, earnings measured 10 years later in calendar years 2020 and 2021, inflation-adjusted to 2022 dollars (MD_EARN_WNE_P10).

Source: U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard.

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Other Texas College scholarships worth checking

These awards can be harder to find. Each one has its own rules.

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) scholarships

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityStudents at UNCF member institutions; UNCF administers more than 300 scholarships, fellowships, and institutional grants

Featured outside-provider link on the Texas College scholarships page (www.uncf.org). Not a Texas College institutional award.

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The Urban Scholarship Fund

Amount$2,000 (private four-year college students)EligibilityGraduate of a high school in one of 19 listed Texas cities (Abilene, Amarillo, Arlington, Austin, Beaumont, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort [sic], Garland, Houston, Irving, Laredo, Lubbock, Mesquite, Pasadena, Plano, San Antonio, Waco)

Outside provider (www.txadc.org) featured on the school's scholarships page; $2,000 tier applies to private four-year college students such as Texas College attendees.

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East Texas Communities Foundation scholarships

AmountAmount not publishedEligibilityStudents in the East Texas area (32 listed counties)

Outside provider (www.etcf.org) featured on the school's scholarships page.

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Texas College merit aid FAQ

What is the scholarship application deadline?
No deadline date is published on the scholarships page. It says students 'must be accepted for admission and submit a scholarship application for the appropriate scholarship and semester,' with downloadable applications for new freshmen and for current/transfer students. Ask the aid office for the current-cycle deadline.
Do I need the FAFSA for a Texas College merit scholarship?
The page says 'It is recommended that all scholarship applicants complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).' For the Achievement and Transfer awards, applying for federal aid is a listed eligibility requirement. Texas College's school code is 003638.
How are academic scholarships awarded?
Per the page: 'Awarding of academic scholarships is based primarily on predictors of academic success, such as high school class rank, standardized test scores and prior grades. Additional consideration will be given to leadership qualities socioeconomic background and status as a first generation college student.'

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How Texas College compares

665 of 749 verified schools publish at least one four-year renewable merit award.
Texas College is one of them. The cohort minority (84 schools) only awards one-year scholarships, which means the four-year value families assume on a brochure quote isn't guaranteed at every school.

Sources used on this page

Every claim is checked against Texas College’s own published materials. Below is the full reference set.

Cost of attendanceTexas College cost-of-attendance worksheet
Merit tiersPresidential Scholarship Program

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