Review of Texas Exes Forty Acres Scholars Program web presence - from prospective student/parent perspective
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This document discusses the University of Texas at Austin scholarship search process and resources. It notes that the scholarship search and information available to prospective students can be confusing and lacking centralization. There are suggestions that UT should create a centralized clearinghouse listing all merit scholarships for incoming freshmen, similar to what Rice University has. The document also explores some UT webpages on scholarships and notes when information or links are missing or outdated.
Review of Texas Exes Forty Acres Scholars Program web presence - from prospective student/parent perspective
- 1. http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/ Search box works great when searching on merit, forty, 40, f ull ride: FASP shows up on first page and sometimes even as first listing. When searching on scholarships, however , first mention of FASP is on 2nd page.
- 2. http://bealonghorn.utexas.edu/freshmen/scholarships In general, when Michelle and Katy applied to UT, I found the whole scholarship process to be confusing. There seemed to be no central clearing house where you could find a list of all merit scholarships available for incoming freshmen. Actually, maybe there needs to be a separate section for Texas Exes. (This is an important but tricky page!)
- 7. Help, Im lost in the woods! Branding looks different. Its .org instead of .edu. This makes me wonder if its really UT. No mention of FASP at all! Does mention The Texas Exes in the About section, but it really needs to change the link. (See next slide.)
- 9. HUGE project to implement and maintain, but what would be so helpful to prospective students and parents is to have a central clearing house for merit scholarships for incoming freshmen, ranked by amount of aid, with active links to where people can learn more. It might look something like Rices, but UTs would be pages and pages long, Im sure. Name, College, Recipients, Amount
- 16. http://www.utexas.edu/cola/progs/plan2/admission/scholarship.php Plan II has good info about FASP and the links are correct.
- 17. For some reason, Google was timing out whenever I tried to go to texasexes.org.