Admission scholarships and Bulldog Out-of-State Scholarship

This is a real program, but some details for the current cycle are not published or not yet confirmed. Check the official source before you plan around it.

Award

Per year by unweighted GPA (3.0-3.749 / 3.75-4.0): Presidential ACT 33+/SAT 1450-1600 $9,000/$9,500; Deans' ACT 32/1420-1440 $8,000/$8,500; Outstanding Student ACT 31 $6,000/$6,500, 29-30 $5,000/$5,500, 27-28 $4,000/$4,500, 25-26 $3,000/$3,500, 23-24 $2,000/$2,500; Academic Choice ACT 20-22 N/A/$1,000. Bulldog Out-of-State Scholarship pays out-of-state tuition and fees: automatic for admitted AR, MS, TX students; others need ACT 23 or SAT 1130 and 2.5 GPA.

Deadline

Apply for admission by January 15 of senior year (priority).

How to apply

No separate application; submit ACT/SAT and transcript with the admission application.

What you'll need

• No separate application: you are considered when you apply for admission

Who can apply

Incoming freshmen; GPA on a 4.0 unweighted scale. Merit awards require U.S. citizenship. For the separate Bulldog waiver, admitted students from AR, MS and TX qualify automatically; other-state freshmen need 2.5 unweighted GPA, ACT 23 or SAT 1130 and no remedial English or math requirement. Remedial exemption can be met through the published subscore, GPA, placement-test or college-course options. International students have a separate Bulldog eligibility policy.

Good to know

The merit table and January 15 senior-year priority date are not assigned a fall 2027 entering year. The official page currently confirms that the Bulldog waiver for other-state first-year students requires ACT 23 or SAT 1130, 2.5 unweighted high-school GPA and no remedial English/math need. Some indexed copies display a different older Category A.1 route, so the directly read current page controls. Merit awards last four years or up to 12 quarters with summer conditions; the Bulldog waiver has separate 2.0 renewal rules.

Details

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