<p>Looks like Bright Futures program will be kicked around more in coming year: </p>
<p>The changes seem very reasonable to me.</p>
<p>Question; does anyone know exactly how much tuition is going to cost in 2010, 2011, and 2012?</p>
<p>^^^No. Schools set their tuition rates in the xpring or summer (often summer) for the fall. This is true just about anywhere–state U, private LAC. There are a handful of schools who set tuition and then one you are a student you pay that rate without an increase for four years—but that is no common.</p>
<p>[Bright</a> Futures Scholarship Program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Bright_Futures]Bright”>Bright Futures Scholarship Program - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Bright Futures Controversy:</p>
<p>The Bright Futures Scholarship was first created in 1997, and was meant to emulate the Hope Scholarship. Originally the Program dispersed just above 42,000 scholarships for about $70 million dollars. Over the last decade the cost for the scholarship has balooned substantially. The Scholarship currently costs the lottery’s coffers more than $436.1 million, with about 170,000 students taking advantage of the program.</p>
<p>The requirements for attaining the scholarship were meant to increase each year but have not, resulting in the current state of the award.</p>
<p>They would be so much better off raising the bar for the 75 percent scholarship. The purpose of Bright Futures was to attract quality students to the state schools in Florida. A 970 on the SAT is not the score of a quality student, nor is it deserving of an 11,400 dollar scholarship ($95 X 120 credits). Imagine how much they could save if they raised that to 1100 or even 1070. Then they could still cover 100 percent of tuition and maybe even keep the stipen.</p>
<p>^ I agree 100%</p>
<p>This is not a candy shop we are dealing with. A 970 on the SAT is around 50 points below the national average. At the very least: we need to change the 75 percent scholarship during the next legislative session. Giving scholarship money to students who are around the bottom 35th percentile is downright criminal. A good portion of the $400 million a year in annual expenses is wasted on students who need remediation. It is becoming a national embarrassment!</p>
<p>I agree so much! By not raising the bar, the really good students are being punished by this. It shouldn’t have to be this way. Anyone who reads an SAT book can score a 970 even if they slept through all their classes and it’s already known that it’s very easy to get a 3.0 in some low-rate schools with GPA inflation.</p>
<p>The poor-quality students who manage to get Bright Futures will probably lose it at a university, so why even bother giving it out, at the expense of less aid for the ones who will keep it and deserve it more?</p>