Beginning with students enrolled during the 2026–2027 school year, Senate Bill (SB) 2314 requires each student to complete the Direct Admissions requirement before graduating from high school.

Texas Direct Admissions offers eligible high school seniors proactive college admission opportunities based on verified academic data using the My Texas Future website. The Direct Admissions program allows the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) to share student academic data with participating Texas public colleges and universities. This data sharing helps eligible students receive early admission offers and college outreach.

Through the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s (THECB) My Texas Future platform, students can identify Texas colleges and universities for which they may qualify for admission based on their academic information.

To satisfy this graduation requirement, students must complete one of the following:

• The student provides documentation that the student has established a profile on the My Texas Future website and elects to participate in the direct admissions program.

  • This can be a screenshot provided to Mrs. Barker of the profile

• The student’s parent or guardian submits a signed form authorizing the student to decline to complete and submit the information necessary to participate in the program (Opt-out).

• The student is 18 years of age or older, or has had the disabilities of minority removed, and signs and submits a form declining to complete and submit the information necessary to participate in the program (Opt-out) to the Secondary Counselor.

• A school counselor authorizes the student in writing to decline to complete and submit the information necessary to participate in the program (Opt-out).

What You Need to Do if you decline your student participating in Direct Admission:

If you would like your student to opt out of Direct Admissions, please complete the Direct Admissions Data Sharing Opt-Out Form and return it to Mrs. Barker.

If you choose to participate and are ok with your students’ academic information being shared: Students will complete the Direct Admissions process through My Texas Future.

State law requires all students enrolled in grade 12 to submit a financial aid application to graduate (FAFSA or TASFA). 

Financial aid applications inform postsecondary institutions’ decisions about student eligibility for federal, state, and institutional funds. 

Opt-Out Form: A student may graduate without completing a financial aid application by submitting an opt-out form signed by the student’s parent or guardian, counselor, or the student if age 18 or older to authorize the student to decline to submit a financial aid application

FAFSA (Free Application For Federal Student Aid)

• FAFSA FOR 2026-2027 will be available on October 1st, 2025

• Click here to learn more

• Video: Applying for Financial Aid With the FAFSA® Form 

• Financial Aide Tool Kit

TASFA (Texas Application for State Financial Aid)

The Texas Application for State Financial Aid (TASFA) is used by participating institutions of higher education in Texas to collect information to help determine a student’s eligibility for state financial aid. This page is a rich resource of information that will help you understand your eligibility and help walk you through the ins and outs of applying.

*Students must provide evidence that the FAFSA was completed. This is done in the student's Google Classroom for their Cohort Graduating class. 

Eligible students can graduate early with the Distinguished Level of Achievement and receive a scholarship. 

The Texas First Program is designed to keep Texas’ best and brightest on a direct track to postsecondary education here in our great state. Texas’ top students can accelerate their postsecondary path and earn up to a year in scholarship dollars to attend any Texas public institution of higher education, including colleges, universities, and technical colleges. 

 https://www.highered.texas.gov/the-texas-first-program/ 

*Interested? Want to know more? Make an appointment with the Secondary Counselor to discuss eligibility and planning.

List of participating institutions: All Texas Public Universities