<p>So while reviewing one of my college FA packages, the school gave me $20K/year in merit scholarships and an additional grant. For this scholarship it says recipients usually have a 4.0 (A) average in the most rigorous schedule and a 1350+ (math + critical reading) on their SATs.</p>
<p>I meet these qualifications, but I was wondering if I really slacked off for this last 9 weeks and got a few low Bs or Cs if I could lose my scholarship and not be able to afford the school? Right now I have almost all high As with the exception of a high B in CalcII and a mid/high B in APBio and Physics II. If on my final transcript I had 6 low As in AP and honors courses and 3 Bs in AP/Honors courses senior year...could I lose this scholarship?????</p>
<p>The school most likely will check your transcript and can rescind the scholarship. It is a reward for working hard and doing your best. A high B or two may be acceptable but a low B or C could definitely be a deal-breaker.</p>
<p>Yes, you absolutely can You can also have admission rescinded, if your grades get too low or you get into trouble. Usually, it’s not a big problem, because most high schools that I’ve known just send the end of the year averaged grades, and the colleges don’t see anything but that. You should ask your school how that final transcript looks that they send to colleges.</p>
<p>Please explain to me Iron Maiden how mostly high As and a few Bs in an all AP/honors schedule is slacking off? Sure I could get all high As, but at this point, what is the point? Most kids would celebrate if they got my grades even while I am now “slacking off,” which is really me still doing well, just not outstanding. I’m not asking if I can get away with getting Ds or Cs this 9 weeks…just Bs. It’s my senior year, I’ve trudged on up till this point, now I want to enjoy the last few days of my high school career maybe catching up on some enjoyable reading or even gaining a nice tan…I’m cutting my losses and trying to let go of all stress before college and I have every liberty to do so as I am choosing my most attractive FA offer, which is also my least favorite college option. My question is how far is too far?</p>
<p>Does your HS weight your average? Is the scholarship given based on weighted average? What will your weighted GPA be at graduation? If you get extra weight for honors and AP classes, it may be a moot point, because you might still have that “4.0”</p>
<p>Hocelyn, though I agree with everyone, that slacking off senior year is not a good idea at all, particularly when one is on the edge of affording ones school, and HAS to have that merit money to attend, the way it usually works is that once you have the scholarship, there is some leeway to keeping it. THe school awarded you the scholarship even though you don’t have straight A’s. From what your original post says, that “recipients usually have” a 4.0 …, not that they have to have that in order to keep the award. You do not have a 4.0 and I don’t know about the SAT requirement but they still gave you the award. </p>
<p>I would call the school and ask specifically if you really want to know where the line is drawn in the sand as to where they will pull the scholarship or put you on probation or rescind your acceptance. Usually, schools don’t want to do that, and avoid the situation, but yes, it does happen. Where there is some safeguard is , as I said earlier, the grades sent to your school are usually the year’s average, so some slippage is averaged in there. My son flunked his Calc final, for example, but with A’s in the course up to that point, he still got A for the year. But still not something to fool around with. </p>
<p>So read specifically what the terms of the award are and call the school to make sure. You don’t always get things right when you are telling us what the situation is, and this is something you really need to watch if you are getting too close to a line where you can lose an award. Though I am telling you that in my experience, this rarely happens even with some drop in performance, you could have some award that has very specific requirements for all I know with some conditionals spelled out that you are not sharing with us.</p>
<p>To respond to CTScoutMom, yes my school does show our weighted average vs. our unweighted average, which I think might have gotten me the scholarship. I have a 97.6 weighted but unweighted have a 92.4, I don’t know if the school I’m referring to “recalculates” GPA (so they’d take away my Jazz Band and Band credit when calculating this), because without that I have a 90ish on the line in my AP/honors schedule with only core class grades effecting my GPA. I just sent them an email about it, hopefully they’ll respond soon.</p>
<p>Look and see what the award requires in terms of keeping it. They gave it to you, so I think you’d probably have to dip low on your whole year average to lose it, but this is not anything to fool around with. Make sure you also understand EXACTLY what you need to get once you are at school. Now those awards with minimum GPA requirements that are spelled out as to when they are pulled, most schools will yank that baby so fast it’ll make your head spin if you go under and appeals are often fruitless. I personally lost my scholarship when I was in college that way and so did my son, and in my son’s case, once it was gone–one semester of below 3.0 grades will do it, that was it. Some schools give out a number of these awards counting on kids losing a certain proportion of them.</p>