<p>I "heard" that if your UT GPA is high enough, they exempt your tuition cost (all of it). Is that true or if am I half right or not right at all?</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of this before. You might be able to get college-specific scholarships, though. But that’s usually more than GPA.</p>
<p>The UT Jackson School of Geosciences has a bit of money. Each semester the geology students’ grades are monitored and they are scholarshipped for grades; at a 3.0 they may get about $700; for a 3.5 maybe $2000; for a 4.0 they may get nearly full tuition. I don’t know if other colleges within UT operate this way. I was told this was a peculiar feature for the Geosciences school, for which I’m grateful, having a daughter who is in the program.</p>
<p>This is untrue in the College of Engineering and the College of Fine Arts.</p>
<p>Wow. Did not know this. Now I want to change my major. :)</p>
<p>Wow, that is great.</p>
<p>How about the McCombs School of Business. If you can get your GPA high enough to a 3.5, what are your chances of college funded scholarships.</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…</p>
<p>McCombs + scholarships = ridiculous. They don’t do scholarships. I’m sorry, but a whole bunch of their kids have high grades anyways, and they don’t even give scholarships to entering freshmen. They’re really stingy,</p>
<p>I’ll be transferring in as a sophomore, not freshman and yea i know it’ll be tough but how stingy. & I talked to a financial aid adviser today over the phone today …what she told me was that they offer up to 5000 in scholarship… whats the deal with that …i would rather work a little bit more than have a little more debt when i graduate.</p>
<p>McCombs specifically does not usually offer any scholarships–perhaps this is a general university scholarship?</p>
<p>yea the scholarship up to $5000 is offered by the financial aid office I think. I am already maxed out on the loans (as in max awards that could be offered) so I would rather do something about that scholarship to get out of that pile of debt.</p>
<p>Nxt, my son, junior in McCombs, was a valdictorian - no money. He now has a 3.8 gpa - no money.</p>
<p>McCombs is stingy ;)</p>
<p>Good Lord! 3.8 no Money!?
Let’s put it this way: students are qualified, but they don’t have funds. Anyways how about the scholarship the financial aid gives out every semester… do a lot of students get that or is it rare?</p>