London ISD raises $80K during ‘Boosterthon’ fun-run<\/a><\/p>\nAt Banquete High School, guidance counselor Joe Garcia said the change could make a major difference for students in smaller and rural districts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was extremely excited hearing about it,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cWe have a large amount of economically disadvantaged students, and so it helps them in any way possible to be able to venture out further than they normally would to different colleges in Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many students say application fees have long stood in their way, forcing them to choose which schools they can afford to apply to.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a lot of money that comes out of my family that we don\u2019t have,\u201d said senior Marilyn Moody. \u201cMy tuition could be covered, yes, I could get scholarships, but that does not cover that initial fee. I was doing A&M-Corpus actually this morning, and it\u2019s a $40 fee\u2014and that\u2019s just for the island. Not a lot of people have $40, not a lot of people have $20.\u201d<\/p>\n
For her classmate Emily Cuevas, the new policy offers a chance to apply more broadly without draining her savings.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo far, I\u2019ve applied to a few schools, and most of them have been like out of state or private,\u201d Cuevas said. \u201cI\u2019ve been saving up the public schools in Texas just for this week, because I know that it helps to save the money to wait for this week.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under SB 2231, Free Application Week will take place each year during the second full week of October, encouraging students to apply to more schools and pursue their college goals.<\/p>\n
For seniors like Moody, it\u2019s one less barrier \u2014 and one more opportunity to dream big.<\/p>\n
\u201cMe and Emily have talked about actually rooming together, maybe in an apartment, because I\u2019m gonna go to UT,\u201d Moody said with a smile. “So Horns up, guys.\u201d<\/p>\n
Students can find links to each participating university on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From October 13-19 high school seniors across the Lone Star State will be able to save hundreds of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}