Applicant Requirements

Applications are available through the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation’s Bexar County Scholarship Clearing House. Interested students should contact their high school guidance counselor for a copy of the application and nomination.  Student applications are submitted to the BCSCH office by high school counsellors by November 1st.  Those awarded scholarships are informed in the spring of the following year.

Applicant Requirements for Scholarships other than Presidential Scholarship for Special Needs

  • Completion of the Bexar County Scholarship Clearing House Scholarship Application
    (One counselor nomination per school accepted)
  • Graduating Senior attending a Bexar County High School
  • Ranking in the top 25% of their class
  • Planning on attending a four-year college/university program in the fall.
  • Students applying for the Presidential Scholarship for Special Needs must be pursuing post secondary education at an accredited college/university
  • Committee evaluation of financial need, leadership, scholarship and character
  • Committee Interview

Applicant Requirements for Presidential Scholarship for Special Needs Students

  • Completion of the Bexar County Scholarship Clearing House Scholarship Application
    (One counselor nomination per school accepted)
  • Graduating Senior attending a Bexar County High School
  • Individualized Education Plan
  • Planning on pursuing post secondary education in the fall
  • Personal narrative of 200 words or less addressing how the student has been affected by his/her disability. Narrative may be typed by the applicant or by someone who will record the applicant’s own words
  • Committee evaluation of financial need, leadership, scholarship and character
  • Committee Interview

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