<p>Thanks for sharing this everyone :)</p>
<p>I’m doing the math and still shaking my head in amazement. An additional 4 credits of free tuition for 8 semesters=32 credits. In one fell swoop UA has added the equivalent of an additional year’s worth of university credit, free of charge, for Presidential Scholars. </p>
<p>Roll Tide!</p>
<p>One thing to remember is that most colleges will consider 19 or 20 credits to be an overload which requires approval from the dean. </p>
<p>While the exact schedule hasn’t been released yet, there should be additional classes starting halfway through the semester that one could add to their schedule if they feel that that they can handle the additional workload after spending a few weeks in their other classes.</p>
<p>*
re - finishing in 6 semesters … just don’t FINISH any degree in 6 and take graduate courses! problem solved!*</p>
<p>Carolyn Rogers… “As long as your son is taking undergraduate courses, and has not received a diploma, then he will be able to complete his double major in the 8 terms.”</p>
<p>However, if you get into the University Scholarships program, then typically your undergrad scholarship can be used for those grad level courses (before undergrad graduation).</p>
<p><a href=“http://graduate.ua.edu/info/scholarsprog.pdf[/url]”>http://graduate.ua.edu/info/scholarsprog.pdf</a></p>
<p>so, you can’t just sign up for grad level classes (before graduating) and have your scholarship cover those classes.</p>
<p>this is great news!</p>
<p>even if it only used to allow a student to add some fun classes to his/her schedule.</p>
<p>awesome!</p>
<p>I know of two upperclassmen who plan to take advantage of the change. One may be able to start working on a double major because of this. The other is taking about adding that fun class, which is under the honors college banner.</p>
<p>Thanks again for finding out about this - DS was able to switch to Arts of Tuscaloosa instead of a Freshman Exploration topic he was only mildly interested in! Roll Tide!!!</p>
<p>engineering students who have a 1330-1390 SAT only have 12-16 credits covered…all extra credits would be paid out of pocket at the 2/3 rate</p>
<p>what about engineering students with the 1400 SAT who received the Presidential & $2500 Engineering Scholarship – will they get the 20 credits?</p>
<p>Johnr441: Yes, anyone with the Presidential will be allowed to take up to the 20 credits.</p>
<p>momreads: thanks! what a bonus!</p>
<p>Thanks for posting this. I needed one more class for a minor but since I would be over I just decided to forgo the minor. Now I may be able to take it after all. </p>
<p>Still we should keep in mind though that it’s called an “overload” for a reason. Even if you sign up for a fun class, it still takes up precious time from your week. :-)</p>
<p>momreads - this may have been covered in your last post, but i am not sure.</p>
<p>so my DD has UA scholars and then the extra 1/3 covered by engineering, so technically not Presidential. would she also be able to take up to the 20 hours under the scholarship?</p>
<p>i think i got the answer:</p>
<p>“Any scholarship that is based on tuition (2/3 tuition, 1/2 tuition, etc.) no longer has the upper limit of 16 hours. If your daughter takes 18 hours, then she will receive 2/3 of the cost of tuition for the 18 hours.”</p>
<p>This is great, but unfortunately, not enough hours in the week to fit a class of substance in. If you’re a science or engineering major, you’ve got labs that last three hours, so even if you could fit in a class, you go from having a lunch or snack break, to having six hours of class straight, not a good thing.</p>
<p>On a happy note, this will definitely come into play for science and engineering majors who normally take close to 18 hours a semester. Nice to know we will not have to pay overage charges now.</p>
<p>Had always figured that engineering scholarship was given to cover the overages, so I wonder if this new “rule” will not apply to engineering majors.</p>
<p>email the engineering dept and ask. : )</p>
<p>*Had always figured that engineering scholarship was given to cover the overages, so I wonder if this new “rule” will not apply to engineering majors. *</p>
<p>The engineering scholarship was not given to cover “overages”. It was given as an incentive to grow the engineering dept. There is no exclusionary rule for engineering majors. </p>
<p>*This is great, but unfortunately, not enough hours in the week to fit a class of substance in. *</p>
<p>My ChemE son has taken 17 and 18 credits each semester. And, as you go up in class levels, some don’t have labs…like Dif Eq I and II. For some odd reason, we were not charged for that 18th hour. His scholarship covered 17 hours. </p>
<p>so even if you could fit in a class, you go from having a lunch or snack break, to having six hours of class straight, not a good thing.</p>
<p>Not necessarily. My son never had 6 straight hours of classes/labs. In fact, he worked a job in the afternoon.</p>
<p>The good thing is that this allows students to take a fun or easy class without paying extra costs.</p>
<p>Ah Bama, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways…
Seriously though, this is fantastic!!! My double major probably still wont happen, but now I can take my 18 hour semesters without paying 1000 bucks for it! Ah my happiness is overflowing :). And 20 hour semesters are now within reason (mixing liberal arts and engineering courses to prevent one side of the brain from overloading). Thank you Bama, for letting us do this!</p>
<p>*email the engineering dept and ask. : ) *</p>
<p>The engineering dept cannot take back a scholarship that has already been offered and accepted. And, it has no power over what the university does with its scholarships.</p>
<p>The engineering scholarship was offered as an incentive to grow the dept in anticipation of the Shelby Science and Engineering Complex. Bama is not going to do a stupid thing and say that the new policy doesn’t apply to engineering students. That would be nuts.</p>
<p>i did already emailed them earlier. engineering UA scholar students who have a 1330-1390 SAT only have 12-16 credits covered. any extra units would have to be paid out of pocket</p>