<p>It says on the BF website that the Florida Academic Scholars pays $125 per credit hour, but why does everyone call it the 100% award. What if your tuition is more? and what about room and board? thanks</p>
<p>It does not pay 100% of tuition, and doesn’t touch on room and board. The highest award amount is referred to as “100%” of what you can get from it. It is deceiving, and I thought the same thing a couple years ago, before I did the math. However, it is a great scholarship, and it would be great if every state did the same. If we’re going to have a Lottery, I’m glad the funds go to this.</p>
<p>Take the cost of attendance for a semester, subtract the number of credit hours you take that semester multiplied by your award amount, and use scholarships, grants, or (if necessary) loans to fill the gap.</p>
<p>Everyone doesn’t call it a 100% award of tuition. The 100% is a reference to what percent of the award a student gets based on high school performance.</p>
<p>The award is $125 per hour. </p>
<p>So, a person who gets 100% of the award will get $125 per hour.</p>
<p>A person who get 75% of the award will get 93.75 per hour. </p>
<p>Room, board, books, etc are not included in BF.</p>
<p>Ok, thats kinda what i figured, guess that rules out U of Miami 
staying home is starting to look pretty good option</p>
<p>Even though the University of Miami is private, Bright Futures will pay for that. However, the cost of attendance is far more than what you can get from Bright Futures. Maybe you could qualify for scholarships and financial aid?</p>
<p>But Bright Futures does contribute a good deal to public universities, which can be quite good. Good luck.</p>
<p>yeah im leaning more towards state schools since there are a lot of fairly nice ones</p>
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That there are.</p>
<p>Bright Futures used to have a 100% scholarship, but the state decided they needed more money to build baseball stadiums for millionaires, so they cut the scholarships effectively stealing from students who had already earned the 100% scholarships.</p>
<p>^ Uh, no. The percentages are based on a percentage of the total Bright Futures scholarships available. The percentage you get (100%, 75%) is based on your GPA and scores. The problem is there are MANY more students qualifying for BF than in past years.</p>
<p>Don’t be too quick to rule out Miami. With good grades and test scores they give out 100%, 75% and 50% tuition scholarships that are strictly merit based. They also have financial aid available for those who qualify.</p>
<p>They may still call them 100% and 75%, but they are not anymore. They will pay so much per credit hour, period. It never amounts to 100% or 75%. It used to be that if you earned a 100% Bright Futures, it paid 100% of the tuition at any public university in the state, plus about $600 a semester for books. No more books and no more 100%.</p>
<p>so how much could you estimate per year, someone with 100% Bright Futures would receive?</p>
<p>@caneforlife - the highest BF scholarship for full time (30 credit hours per year) would be a total of $3750 per year in BF scholarships.</p>