Counselors
Has a student at your school been awarded the Terry Scholarship?
Terry Scholars across the state have volunteered to attend high school senior celebration ceremonies to welcome 2023 Terry Scholarship recipients to our community. If your school is hosting a senior night or scholarship award ceremony and would like a representative of the Terry Foundation to attend, please complete our Award Ceremony Request Form. If a willing volunteer is nearby, we will connect you with them and help ensure they have the information needed to attend your event. Please note:
- We request at least a week’s notice of your event.
- We cannot guarantee that a volunteer will be available for every request.
- Due to time constraints, we are unable to provide our volunteers with anything to physically present to your student at the event. Instead, we will email a personalized certificate that the school can print, if desired.
The Terry Scholarship Application Process
The following information has been compiled for High School Counselors, College Access Advisors, and other professionals who help high school students with their college scholarship search and application process.
What are the selection criteria?
The primary selection criteria for the Terry Scholarship are:
- Academic Achievement
- Demonstrated Leadership
- Financial Need
Unlike many scholarship programs, the selection as a Terry Scholar is not simply based on financial need, test scores, or grade point average. Instead, Terry Scholars are chosen because they exhibit a well-rounded personality, grounded in a desire to succeed, and a demonstrated history of community leadership. Please visit our FAQ Page for more information about our eligibility requirements.
How do students apply?
The Terry Foundation does not accept applications directly from candidates. Instead, that process is conducted at each Terry-affiliated university by our campus partners. Those partners compile applications and review them at the campus level and then nominate candidates for interview to the Terry Foundation.
Our campus partners open their Terry Scholarship applications between August 1st and early October. Each university follows its own process. Texas A&M candidates apply using the ApplyTexas application. UT-Austin applicants must submit responses to Terry-specific questions on their Scholarship Interest Form (available after submitting the admissions application in the MyStatus portal). Other universities provide applicants a downloadable .pdf to complete and submit, along with supporting documentation. Each university has dedicated Terry pages on their university website, detailing their Terry application process. For links to all of our partner’s application websites, and to find the names and contact info for each of our partners, please visit our Affiliated Universities Page.
Application and Interview Timeline
Click on each item for a detailed description of each step
Affiliated Universities
The Terry Foundation will offer new scholarships at the universities listed below for the 2022-2023 academic year. The links will take you away from our website and onto each school’s Terry Scholarship information webpage.
- The University of Texas- Austin
- Texas A&M University
- University of Houston
- Texas State University
- The University of Texas- Dallas
- The University of Texas- San Antonio
- Texas Tech University
- University of North Texas
- Texas Woman’s University
- The University of Texas- Arlington
- The University of Texas- El Paso