@Gator88NE : the problem is that originally Bright Futures was supposed to cover full tuition, more or less, for all students who qualified for the 4-year university system. Tuition is kept quite low though, half to a third of other states, so middle class families should find it affordable outright. With Pell and original BF, same for lower income students.
However, funds to BF were cut and the bar raised (especially for 'commended ’ act scores) to the point that fewer than 20% instate residents qualify.
So, more students qualified for 4-years but unable to afford them, applied to the special access programs like fsu care, or UFirst at USF . These funds were cut too and of course with more applications it’s more competitive there too, so that more lower income students are left to fend for themselves. ‘bright futures’ as a scholarship program supposedly for all Floridians becomes a sad joke for them.