<p>when u get a financial aid offer from a college, does the college put certain conditions that need to be met in order to keep the scholarship, such as a level of academic perfomance, or sports perfomance. On what basis can the college take back the scholarship. (if u do not perform according to conditions?)
how soon can the college take back the scholarship? - second semester, second year..
thanks a lot.
and if some experienced scholarship holders view this thread, - could u give an idea of how difficult it is to maintain a scholarship.- such as a full scholarship in a decent uni.
thx.</p>
<p>Academic scholarships usually require that you maintain a certain GPA. Sports scholarships require that you participate in that sport. Art and Music scholarships normally require that you major or minor in that particular field.</p>
<p>If you grade falls below the GPA required, you usually lose the scholarship for the next year. Some colleges/universities may pull them at the semester. Each college/university, and even each particular scholarship, will have different rules. You have to ask what the rules are when you apply for or are awarded a scholarship.</p>
<p>As happymom said - the conditions for continuing a scholarship will vary by scholarship. Some will have minimum GPA and/or minimum hour requirements. Some may have additional requirements. There are as many different requirements for keeping scholarships as there are scholarships.</p>
<p>For instance my son had a small scholarship that he lost after one semester because of not meeting GPA requirements. A friend's son had a full ride scholarship that he lost after a semester for the same reason. My daughter has a full tuition plus cash scholarship. Although it is a single scholarship the tuition and cash portions are funded by different entities and each have separate GPA requirements. For her scholarship the renewal requirements are looked at at the end of the school year rather than by semester. She is a sophomore and so far she is meeting all the requirements and looks good for renewing it for her junior year unless she bombs her classes next semester. We have two friends with sons that received the same scholarship at the same school and lost it after the first year. My daughter's best friend, at another school, has a full ride scholarship that, in addition to GPA requirements, has a requirement to be involved in a leadership council and attend numerous events and functions.</p>
<p>Probably the earliest a school would take back a scholarship would be 2nd semester. Many scholarships will give you the full year before they take it away. It is very important to know the renewal criteria. As for how hard it is to keep the scholarship,i it depends on the student. If a student has the Stats to get the scholarship it should be possible to keep it, but many do not. Probably a lot that do lose it do so in the first year while they are adjusting to the difference between High school and college. Often the renewal requirement is based on cumulative GPA so a good freshman year can help make it easier to keep in the long term while a poor freshman year, even if not poor enough to cause the immediate loss of the scholarship, may make it an ongoing struggle to keep it.</p>
<p>What Swimcatsmom said is right on point. Investigate the requirements to keep the scholarships. Some schools are more forgiving in allowing more time to reach a GPA standard. But the freshman year is the most important. The lower you start in your first year, the more you have to do to pull up the grades, usually when the classes are getting more difficult.</p>
<p>MY DD was eligible for a merit award at her school, one was $1000 more a year than the other, the GPA differences were 3.5 vs 3.0 which is a big difference!</p>
<p>thanks people, appreciate the responses.
swimcatsmom, ur response clarified almost all my queies. thx a lot.</p>
<p>but suppose the college u have applied to for financial aid, is unable to grant the desired financial aid (for some reason), then will the college notify that the student might get admission with lower scholarship, or will be admitted if he chose to not acquire scholarship, in case the student still wants to attend despite loss of scholarship?</p>
<p>or will the college blatantly reject the student's application? because if the college does that, then asking for financial aid or scholarship is a very risky endeavour.</p>
<p>thanks for the great help!!!!</p>
<p>We are talking at cross purposes to a certain extent. Scholarships that are based on merit are quite different from financial aid based on financial need. The scholarships I referred to in my post are merit based scholarships. They are awarded because of merit (GPA/SAT/ACT etc). Mostly they are awarded without consideration of the student's finances. For instance my daughter's scholarship was offered to her before we even filed for need based aid consideration. She also has some need based aid but it is quite separate from her scholarship money and has quite different requirements for keeping it.</p>
<p>As far as need based aid many schools are need blind for admission. This means the department looking at your application for admission is unaware of whether you have financial need when they make the decision about whether to accept you into the school. It is possible for a student to be admitted into a school but not to be awarded financial aid. Some schools are need aware and will take into consideration whether you have need when deciding whether or not to offer admission.</p>
<p>Are you an International student? Schools that are need blind for US students may not always be so for International students. You would need to check with the schools you are applying to.</p>