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Working with local government and community partners Alamo PROMISE provides community college tuition along with mandatory fees to eligible students who plan to earn an associate degree, certification, courses for transfer or workforce training.

Alamo PROMISE is more than a new program of the Alamo Colleges District, it is a community-wide initiative. 

AlamoPROMISE will provide last-dollar funding to fill the gap between a student’s financial aid award and the cost of tuition and mandatory fees for up to three years at one of the Alamo Colleges District’s five colleges.

Graduating high school seniors from any of the participating high schools are eligible.

To be eligible, students must:

• Complete a Save Your Seat Form to participate in the program
• Submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid or Texas Application for State Financial Aid and list at least one college of the Alamo Colleges District
• Complete any documents required to process a financial aid award
• Apply for admission to one of the Alamo Colleges through Apply Texas
• Complete registration at one of the Alamo Colleges to attend the Fall semester immediately following their senior year of high school
• Enroll in the fall semester immediately following high school graduation
• Maintain Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP), which includes three components:
  • 1) Minimum Grade Point Average (GPA) of 2.0.
  • 2) Completion rate of 66.66% cumulative rate between hours attempted and hours completed.
  • 3) Maximum hours: no more than 99 attempted hours of college-level coursework (excluding 20 hours of remedial courses) for Associates Degrees and no more than 180 attempted hours of college-level coursework (excluding 30 hours of remedial courses) for Bachelor Degrees (BSN).
  • For more information on SAP, visit Maintaining Your Eligibility on the District financial aid page for more information.
• Follow Course in Program of Study (CPOS) requirements. CPOS is a federal requirement stating that only courses that count toward your degree or certificate can be considered when calculating your federal financial aid eligibility.  Additionally, courses outside of your program of study will not be covered by AlamoPROMISE.

View List of Participating High Schools

The first cohort of AlamoPROMISE scholars were recruited in the fall of 2019 and enrolled as AlamoPROMISE Scholars in fall of 2020.

The Alamo Colleges District’s partners in AlamoPROMISE are contributing funds and additional monies are being contributed by businesses and foundations.

The generous support of our community makes this program possible. We want to encourage your continued investment in Bexar County area students.

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The core partners are the UP Partnership, the San Antonio Education Partnership and SA Works.

Yes. The AlamoPROMISE steering committee, chaired by Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Alamo Colleges District Chancellor Dr. Mike Flores, includes leaders from key businesses, educational organizations and non-profits who are fully supportive of the program.

There is consensus in the community that education beyond high school is critical to providing economic and social mobility for residents, and that financial barriers are the greatest factor in preventing residents from enrolling in or completing a college education.

The leadership of the Alamo Colleges District believes that Alamo PROMISE provides a strategy to address that reality and the fact that San Antonio is one of the fastest-growing economic regions in the country, yet has the second-highest percentage of population in poverty among the top 25 largest U.S. metro areas.

Yes. The Dallas County Community College District has a successful Promise program, and there are 242 such programs making a difference across the country.