I am looking to attend several colleges that are out of state and out of budget range without merit scholarships. Luckily I recently improved my ACT scores and got merit scholarships that bring them down to in-state tuition. For one of the schools the requirements to get that scholarship is a 29 ACT and a 3.75 high school GPA, the problem is that right now my unweighted GPA is 3.76. Of course I will do my best to keep my gpa from dropping, but if it did would the school rescind that scholarship offer. In the award information they don’t say anything about maintaining the scholarship in high school, only while your at the college. I would just hate to commit to a school and then have my gpa drop the last month of my senior year and end up not being able to afford school. Thanks for the help.
Do everything in your power to keep your grades up. Go to tutoring, etc if it is offered.
Most colleges will ask for a final transcript and can rescind the scholarship.
Good luck!
Ask the school directly if a small drop in HS GPA in the final semester would lose the scholarship.
At my daughter’s school, it is made very clear that if your gpa goes up or down, so will your scholarship. They do NOT round up either.
Depends on the school.
At my kids’ school, senior year high school grades had zero affect in the merit.