<p>I am a little confused about the amount of exceptional funding a presidential scholarship recipient could receive. The web site says 8 half units. Does this mean for the entire year?
Thank you for any clarification if anyone knows how much is potentially funded per semester and per summer, should you qualify.</p>
<p>Any info at all regarding this would be much appreciated. I have heard my son mention it, but am unclear on how it works, particularly as related to summer study abroad programs.</p>
<p>The way they explained it to me is that it is a total of 8 half-units beyond the 8 semesters the scholarship covers. So it wouldn't be "per year." It would be total for your entire undergraduate career. And they won't let you use it to cover all of 4 units instead of 1/2 of 8 units.</p>
<p>If you took 8 units in one summer it would cover 1/2 of the tuition and you would have no more exceptional funding available.</p>
<p>-or-</p>
<p>If you took 4 units one summer, it would cover 1/2 the tuition and you would still have 4 half-units eligibility of exceptional funding for a future summer.</p>
<p>(Hope that wasn't too confusing!)
USC:</a> Trustee & Presidential Scholars
USC:</a> Trustee & Presidential Scholars</p>
<p>Oh - I fogot to mention: you can also use the exceptional funding to pay for (1/2 of) units beyond the 18 unit maximum per semester - it doesn't have to be for summer.</p>
<p>to college, thanks for the info, you made it very clear. I was wondering too.</p>
<p>Tocollege: Thanks so much for the explanation. Did the person who explain this to you a representative of USC? I really appreciate your response above.</p>
<p>Yes, it was in a group session at orientation. (My mom asked the question and is the one who actually understood the answer - she had to re-explain it to me!)</p>
<p>That clears it up for me beautifully. Thanks!</p>