<p>FYI - </p>
<p>The legislature passed and the Governor signed a budget that repeals the Governor's Scholarship funding. This is the money that goes to valedictorians and STAR students who attend Georgia colleges/universities.</p>
<p>This means that these students will lose $900 a year.</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>Are you kidding me??? My daughter, valedictorian at a top public Ga school has had many offers with money to top 10 schools and is (maybe was) choosing UGA. This is an absolute disgrace when we want to retain top students.</p>
<p>Okay, so I just got off the phone with the Governor’s office and this legislation has been passed, but not signed yet. If Georgia really wants to retain these very top students, they need to show it. If you are Valedictorian and considering UGA, PLEASE call the Governor’s office now.</p>
<p>^^Interesting. I was told the budget was signed the other day??? Thanks.</p>
<p>Please. Students who are Valedictorians or STAR students are probably going to receive Charter Scholarships to UGA, and admission to the Honors Program, not to mention the fact that they are HOPE eligible. If that Governor’s Scholarship money could be used in another way to help more students, not just those at the top of the class, that’s a good thing. Georgia wants to educate all of its own, right? Not just Valedictorians and kids with super high SATs. Those kids should be grateful to have achieved so much–and that they can attend UGA, or any other state school, for free tuition, and not gripe about what they aren’t getting.</p>
<p>^^ LOLOLOLOL, you really think that money went back into education? </p>
<p>Thanks for the laugh this morning!</p>
<p>CMF0918 - 'Those kids should be grateful to have achieved so much" - are you serious??
Those kids have achieved so much because they have studied nights when other kids were out - they were not handed something to be grateful for aside from their God given intelligence - and for that my daughter IS grateful. I stand by my case that we should somehow acknowledge top students and attempt to retain them instate aside from HOPE
which every student with a 3.0 can get. When she looked at her offers from some of the very top colleges in the country - UGA offered her the least and yet she chose it anyway.</p>