<p>I have a quick question about renewal for the Florida Bright Futures scholarship. This semester I enrolled as a full time student with 13 credit hours. I took a programming class that was just too much with my other courses. I discussed how dropping the course would affect my Bright Futures status over the phone TWICE with the florida financial aide office, and WITH my schools financial aide advisor in person before dropping the class. All three of them said I'd be fine. I have also paid off what I owed to bright futures in cash for dropping the class. I'm just worried because I had a friend put in a similar scenario last year and he was unable to renew his scholarship this year. Additionally the more i read on the bright futures page it says 12 semester hours per term to be eligible to be renewed. What the hell is going on.is it 12 per semester or 24 per year? I'm more than willing to take an extra easy class next semester to make it up. The laws regarding bright futures keep changing and are SO COMPLICATED.</p>
<p>[Florida</a> Student Scholarship and Grant Programs](<a href=“http://www.floridastudentfinancialaid.org/SSFAD/bf/renewpg.htm]Florida”>http://www.floridastudentfinancialaid.org/SSFAD/bf/renewpg.htm)</p>
<p>According to the link, you just have to meet the 24 hour requirement by the end of the school year and it is evaluated in the spring.
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<p>I talked to my FA advisor again (she probabably hates me for asking the same question 4 times). And called the Florida Financial aid office again. From what they tell me it seems as though. You are only required to earn ATLEAST 12 credits per semester if you are enrolled fulltime. If you drop a class and fall below 12 credit hours then you are no longer considered fulltime and are then required to earn ATLEAST 9 credit hours or more. So it seems as if they punish you more for failing a class and not earning the credit rather than dropping it.</p>