Students who are interested in applying for endowed scholarships for the upcoming academic year (fall and spring semesters) must complete a General Scholarship Application Form online via the University Scholarship Management system, myScholarships portal. The priority deadline for applications is February 1st. Students may begin applying for scholarships when they receive and activate their LEA username and password credentials, after their ApplyTexas application is complete. All student ApplyTexas applications are automatically loaded into the University Scholarship Management system, but the student MUST fill out the General Scholarship Application online in order to be eligible for any university or endowed awards.
Each student will have multiple scholarship opportunities on their task list - those available may be listed, but are not limited to:
Once a student completes an application, the myScholarships system will auto match student to any scholarship that they meet the criteria for. The myScholarships system does not allow for students to apply for individual scholarships.
Scholarship awards are made for one academic year, with the exception of renewable scholarships. Awards are made for both fall and spring semesters simultaneously, unless the criteria specifies otherwise, or committee members agree to make justifications for a graduating student on their last semester of studies. Student will receive one scholarship disbursement per award per semester. Students awarded a scholarship for the spring semester only, will receive the fill amount of their scholarship award in one disbursement.
Please note: The process does not replace the donor's intent as outlined in the specified scholarship criteria.
The university and college scholarship coordinators have access to all scholarship applications and detailed scholarship reports including budget amounts and criteria to award for the upcoming academic year through the University Scholarship Management system.
Each scholarship committee must approve the scholarship awards within their unit. The scholarship coordinator within each college will process the final selection based on the committee members' recommendations by offering the scholarship to the student cia the University Scholarship Management system.
The scholarship application process may be re-opened, upon request, if the committee has not exhausted their scholarship funding after reviewing all eligible applicants, who met the official deadline.
The scholarship application may also be re-opened, upon request, if the original recipient declines the scholarship or becomes ineligible.
To receive a scholarship disbursement, students must enroll in the required number of hours for the academic term as identified by the agreement, be in good standing with the university, meet retention or probation requirements and complete a thank you letter to their donor.
Any endowment agreement that does not specify scholarship criteria will be set up in the myScholarships system as the same criteria used for the University General Scholarships.
Preferred Criteria: Scholarships will be awarded to the most qualified student who meets both the required and preferred criteria. If there is no comparable applicants with the stated preference, the award will be given to the student who meets the required criteria and noted.
There is no limit set regarding scholarship offers: however, the committees are permitted to determine the number and amount of scholarships to be awarded each year.
The amount of scholarships and other financial aid cannot exceed state and federal regulations or, in any case, exceed the estimated cost of attendance as determined by the University through the Student Aid Office.
Scholarships are only to be awarded for fall and spring terms, no summer awards should be offered.
Awards will be processed in the University Scholarship Management system and pushed to BANNER after the College Scholarship Coordinator approves all awards.
All scholarship recipients will receive an email of offer notification thought their LU email and a flash message within the University Scholarship Management system. These messages will be automatically generated and sent through the University Scholarship Management system.
Students must accept or decline their scholarship within the time from indicated on the scholarship offer notice from the University Scholarship Management system. Failure to do so will render the scholarship offer invalid and the scholarship will be withdrawn for the named student. The review committee will then re-award the scholarship to another student.
Students are required to write thank you note(s) to their donor(s), in the specified timeframe, in order to receive their scholarship disbursement.
The Scholarship Coordinator and Account Managers are responsible for re-awarding any unclaimed scholarship offers.
While the Student Aid Office administers and awards many university scholarships, students can receive college/departmental scholarships, fellowships, grants, or awards from other scholarship-grant units. Currently, recognized scholarship-granting units other than the Student Aid Office include the following:
Scholarship-granting units are responsible for ensuring that their respective scholarship award process is fair, equitable, and in compliance with appropriate rules and regulations. At a minimum, each scholarship-granting unit must establish and maintain: