<p>My D just completed her freshman year. To keep her scholarship she needs to maintain a 3.3 gpa. She just got her grades and her cum is 3.2. Does anyone know what happens? This will change her financial aid also if she loses it. Any comments are welcome.</p>
<p>It depends on the school. </p>
<p>Your best bet would be to check with the individual school as some will place her on "probation", which means she will have until the end of the fall term sophomore year to bring it up to 3.3. </p>
<p>Other schools are very black and white about their requirements meaning if she did not get the 3.3 she will not have the scholarship in the fall. Since there is a considerable amount of money on the line, I would call anonymously and inquire so you can start making contigency plans.</p>
<p>You might find a policy on the school's web site. If you have a google toolbar, go to the school's site and then do a site search on the name of her scholarship.</p>
<p>Sometimes those GPA requirements don't kick in until their sophomore year.</p>
<p>As sybbie said, it does really depend on the school.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>You might check the paperwork you received when notified about the scholarship, if she still has it.</p>
<p>Some scholarship programs will let you take a class or two in summer school to bring up the average--look into that. You'd probably have to pay for summer school yourself, but it could be worth it if its the way to keep the scholarship.</p>
<p>Thanks, I checked the paperwork. It doesn't have a GPA on it, and she received papers awarding her the scholarship for next year already. I think that it will be okay. I think I will just wait until I see what the school sends when they mail her grades. This was from online.</p>
<p>Glad it worked out, but for others who may be in the same boat: My niece had a merit scholarship at AU and missed the GPA and was informed she would lose the award unless she successfully appealed the decision. She wrote a letter explaining what had happened -- she had taken a language course that was too high a level and also got way overcommitted with extracurriculars, which she described. She also explained how she was going to make sure her mistake wasn't repeated soph year. Her scholarship was reinstated.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>she had taken a language course that was too high a level and also got way overcommitted with extracurriculars<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Boy, these are typical freshman problems. Glad that the scholarship committee took that into account in reinstating her scholarship.</p>
<p>My S's is very cut and dried. If gpa drops below 3.2, it's gone. My neighbor's kid at a different school had a one semester probation period to give her a chance to raise her gpa.</p>