Updated: August 14, 2026
Please note: All selections are final. Our goal is to support as many students as possible, but because funding is limited, we are unfortunately unable to award everyone. To streamline communication, we only notify candidates who receive an award. You can check the status of each school you listed on your application using the list below.
Step 4
Candidates have accepted awards and all deadlines have passed for the following schools:
Step 3
Candidates from the following schools have been confirmed, notified and award letters have been posted to accounts:
Step 2
Candidates have been recommended and candidates are being reviewed for the following schools:
Step 1
Stars is scoring applicants and preparing list of candidates recommendations for:
Texas A&M University
UT Health SA
Del Mar College
Laredo College
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Texas State Technical College
South Texas College
Texas A&M University Kingsville
Our Lady of the Lake University
El Paso Community College
Texas A&M International University
University of Texas – Austin
Texas A&M University Corpus Christi
General Schools
Before Selection
We have completed reviewing applicants and we are working with institutions on details of 26-27 agreements::
St. Mary’s University
St. Mary’s University – School of Law School
University of Texas at San Antonio
Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University HSC El Paso
University of the Incarnate Word
University of Texas at El Paso
Notice to Applicants
- Lean more about “matching program schools” here
- Applicants selected as candidates will receive an email from Stars Scholarship Fund prompting them to check their Stars account.
- Once you receive this email and you log in, review and submit the acceptance of the terms of your scholarship offer.
- Download the attached FERPA Release form from your account, under your documents tab, carefully review, sign, and return it. A hand-written ink signature is required. Please do not use a typed or digital signature. Scan or take a clear photo of the signed form and email it back to us at this email address.
- Candidates have 1 week to accept the scholarship offer. Offers not accepted within the deadline are considered a forfeit of the offer and the offer will be rescinded. We will select an alternate recipient in such cases.
- If you have changed schools, you will need to indicate the change before agreeing to the terms of the scholarship. We will make the change to your award offer upon reviewing the change and will resend an email to you with a new FERPA Release form indicating the change.
- Candidates are not officially recipients until Stars had received submitted form and the signed FERPA document.
- If your school is listed below in Step 4 and you do not see awarding information, you were not selected to receive a scholarship at this time. We will send out regret notices when we have completed awarding for all schools. Note that if a candidate forfeits their scholarship offer, we will select an alternate recipient.
- As indicated on the signed Certification Form submitted by each application on #13, the Stars Scholarship is not guaranteed to anyone, including past recipients.