2025 Honors Scholars Scholarship Application

First Name

Preferred Name

Last Name

Email Address

Birthdate

UT Tyler Student ID Number (Optional)

Current School Attending

CEEB Code

Below is the application for the Honors Scholars Scholarship. Please answer each question and upload the required 500 word essay at the end. Once you click submit, you are unable to make any changes. The Honors Scholars Scholarship Committee will meet and decide who they would like to interview. Interviews take place in January and decisions will be release sometime in late February.

What activities have you been involved in in High School (this can be job, service, extra-curriculars, clubs, sports, etc.)? Please indicate in your response if you held leadership positions in any of your involvements.

Tell us about the most fun class you took in high school.

Please upload a single image of your choice (.JPEG or .JPG) that shows or represents your personal favorite accomplishment during your high school years

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Briefly describe any educational plans you have beyond earning your bachelor's degree.

Please list any special circumstances that you would like to share with us that affect your family's ability to fund your college expenses.

Tell us a little bit about your most unusual friend.

What is the best thing you have read in the last 12 months (book, article, poem, quote, etc.)?

If an exploring alien came to earth for 6 hours, what is the most human experience you could share with them?

In response to the prompt below, please upload a 500 word essay (in .pdf format) using your first and last name as the file name:

Aristotle is attributed as saying, "It is the mark of the educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." What do you think Aristotle meant by this statement and do you believe it to be true?

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