Found: 200 big figure scholarships in Texas

Database now available!

We at Scholarship Prep are excited and pleased to announce the opening of a sister website: BigFigureScholarships.com. The site offers access to a database full of scholarships in a list which you can sort by ACT score, GPA, or type of scholarship (academic, music, etc.)

Comments from Ginia:

I've spent much of my time over the last 5 weeks visiting the websites of the 99 colleges and universities spread across the great state of Texas. There is quite a range of tuition at these schools. The state universities seem to do a good job at keeping tuition costs down. And at some of these schools, exceptionally prepared students may receive tuition reductions up to the entire cost of tuition. Some offer room and board, books, and/or a stipend as well.

Still, there are great advantages to attending a private college, especially if you are looking for a particular religious bent to your student's education or if you want a small class size. (See my comments on the advantages we discovered through the private college experience.)

What we found in Texas:

Many of Texas's colleges offer no scholarships. Many others offer small amounts. But what we were looking for specifically were the large figures. I expect you may be looking for the same. So our criteria at Big Figure Scholarships were to find and list scholarships that offer $5,000 or more. And find them we did - 200 big ones, in fact! Even better, most of these offer their big sums ($5,000 - or more) for EACH year of study at the college. Some even extend their offer for up to five years.

Full Access for members of Scholarship Prep

For members of Scholarship Prep, you may access the Big Figure Scholarships database by entering the same user name and password that you use here at Scholarship Prep.

You may access the database easily from this site by clicking on the navigation button (upper left of this page) called "Scholarship Listings."

We will soon be adding scholarship listings for the colleges in the states of Ohio, Michigan, and Florida.

Because the Big Figure Scholarships database is brand new, I'd like to consider the next few weeks as a beta test time. If you find errors or have difficulty getting around the site, please do contact us (by form on that site) to let us know any problems you are having or suggestions you may have.

Open Beta Testing for all

Also, for those who are not currently members of Scholarship Prep, I invite you to become a Beta Tester for the next 2-3 weeks. Sign up at Big Figure Scholarships, and we will email you a temporary password. You'll be able to access the entire Texas list of scholarships. All we ask is that you let us know if you have any difficulties are problems, so that we can fix them before we do an entire roll-out of the site.