Students must be enrolled in the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th or 12th grade no later than Dec. 31 of the senior year to be eligible to apply for Oklahoma’s Promise (homeschool students must be age 13, 14, 15 or 16; see the following question). Applications are dated by academic year (i.e., 2025-26 school year). Students completing the 7th grade in May must wait until the next school year application is available in August to apply. Students completing the 12th grade MUST apply before the Dec. 31 of their senior year. Please see our Scholarship Deadlines page for more details.
Please see our Scholarship Deadlines page for more details.
Students who are homeschooled must be age 13, 14, 15 or 16 at the time of application (grade levels do not apply). A homeschool student may not apply after they turn 17 years old. The same income and residency requirements apply to all applicants.
For purposes of the Oklahoma’s Promise application, the legal guardian is not the parent but rather the guardian as appointed by a court of law. Temporary guardianship, power of attorney or a notarized statement by the parent do not qualify as legal guardianship. Legal guardians do not need to submit income information but must instead submit a copy of the legal guardian paperwork issued by the court.
Special income provisions apply to students who have been adopted while in the permanent custody of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services or in the court-ordered custody of a licensed, private, nonprofit child-placing agency or federally recognized Indian tribe. For these adopted students, no income verification is required at the time of application in the eighth, ninth, 10th or 11th grade. However, documentation of the legal adoption is required. These adopted students will be subject to a second income limit while the student is enrolled in college. For students adopted between the ages of birth and 12, the second income limit will be $150,000. For students adopted between the ages of 13 and 17, the second income limit will be $200,000. Parents of adopted children who do not fall under this provision of the law are still subject to the initial income limits at the time of application and the $100,000 second income limit while the student is in college.
Special income provisions apply to children adopted from certain court-ordered custody and children in the custody of a court-appointed legal guardian. See questions "What are the application requirements for adopted children?" or "What is the difference between parent and legal guardian?" above or contact the Oklahoma's Promise office for more information.
For Oklahoma’s Promise, the income limit is verified when the student applies for the program in high school and each year the student is enrolled in college.
*Documentation of dependent children from the federal income tax return is required.
Special income provisions may apply to children adopted from certain court-ordered custody, children in the custody of court-appointed legal guardians, children of certified public classroom teachers,and Social Security benefits based on the disability or death of the student’s parent(s). Please see the Special Income Provisions page for more details.
For an online application, all correspondence will be done by email. If you clicked “Submit,” you will have received an email confirmation immediately. Once you click Submit, you should see the confirmation page that you need to print and mail to the Oklahoma's Promise office with your income documentation (this helps us match your documentation to your record). Once we have reviewed the documentation, you will receive an email confirming your student's enrollment into the program or requesting additional information. Some email providers send our automated emails to spam, so you may want to add okpromise@osrhe.edu to your address book.
For a paper application, all correspondence will be done by regular postal mail. You should include all income documentation with your paper application and send it to the Oklahoma's Promise office. Once we have reviewed the application, you will receive a letter confirming your student's enrollment into the program or requesting additional information.
It is recommended that you complete the full process as soon as possible so that the student can work with their school counselor to enroll in the required classes. Please see the Scholarship Deadlines page for more details about when supplemental documentation is required.
