*NEED ADVICE* Final Semester Senior Year - Losing Scholarship

Hey everyone!

I am currently a Senior at my college and I am graduating next month, woohoo! Yet, I have had quite the troubling semester with my grades.

I have a presidential scholarship, and I know that I will not make the 3.0 GPA requirement this semester, which will most likely be 2.80. Since I am in my final semester, will I have to pay for this semester when I lose my scholarship? What happens when they see that I did not make the 3.0 GPA requirement but finished all my credits and am currently graduating?

I am puzzled on this one haha, I am thinking of reaching out to admissions to find out, but since I got 2.98 GPA last semester and they overlooked it saying “do better for future semesters and you are on probation”, I don’t want to bring this up to them and have them reconsider.

P.S. I attend a private college, so they can do whatever they want right?

(edit) Also, I have checked my financial portal, and all disbursements for the scholarship have gone through and I currently owe $0 if that influences anything

Read the fine print on your scholarship terms. If it says that losing the scholarship occurs after not meeting the required GPA, then it does not matter if you graduate (and it probably would have ended after 8 semesters anyway). But if it means that you have to pay back the amount for the semester when you did not meet the required GPA, that could be a problem.

It’s hard to say. Even if they take away the scholarship, that doesn’t mean they won’t offer you financial aid for the semester. One semester, even at full pay is right at the federal student loan maximum. They’ll probably give you a few grants too. It may be worth a trip to the financial aid department…but yes…read the fine print on your contract.

I do not know what the fine print says for your scholarship. I do know what the fine print says for the merit scholarships that my daughters were awarded. The fine print said that if they did not meet a certain minimum GPA then they would lose their scholarship for the following semester. To me this seems to imply that you might be okay if you are graduating and if your scholarship has the same terms.

There is an old saying “C’s get degrees”. It looks like this might have happened to you.