<p>*HOPE is a full-tuition scholarship + most of your mandatory fees covered + a couple hundred towards books, as long as you keep a 3.0. *</p>
<p>Oh good. Someone had pm’d me last week and gave an underestimated amount. I realize now that the person was quoting the amount that students get for private schools.</p>
<p>Public Institutions</p>
<p>Students attending public colleges or universities receive an award for the following:</p>
<pre><code>* Tuition for number of hours enrolled whether full time or part time
HOPE-approved mandatory fees
Books allowance of up to $100 per quarter or $150 per semester
</code></pre>
<p>Private Institutions</p>
<p>Students attending private colleges or universities receive the following:</p>
<pre><code>* Full-time students: $2,000 per semester, $1,333 per quarter
Half-time students: $1,000 per semester, $666 per quarter
</code></pre>
<p>Don’t forget that to qualify in the first place for HOPE, you have to have a 3.0 in all academic classes, not just an overall 3.0 GPA. And, they don’t give any quality points. They will look at your overall GPA at certain points during your college…every so many credit hours…so you can qualify later if you didn’t at first.</p>
<p>So if you took an AP and got a 75, which is usually weighted as a 3.0, HOPE calculates that as a 2.0</p>
<p>So…basically, if you take all gen-ed classes and get 3.0’s or more you’ll qualify for HOPE. But if you push yourself and take and honors or AP your freshman year of HS and get below an 80 you’ll pull yourself out of the running for HOPE for the next four years or so.</p>
<p>OR…if you drop out of high school and get your GED, you can qualify for HOPE!</p>
<p>Sorry - this change with HOPE is a bit of a point of frustration for me!</p>
<p>So, if you’re doing well in a GA high school and you realize that you’re going to get a C in a class, it’s better for you if you drop out, get a GED, so that you keep your HOPE eligibility? How weird!</p>
<p>Which would make OOS tuition go from $23,604 a year to $12,504 a year which fits your criteria. </p>
<p>Check out the schools your interested in and see what they offer. Most OOS flagships and major public universities have similar merit scholarships for OOS students.</p>
<p>he might not get the Provost…OSU doesn’t accept super scored SATs for merit. He may not have a 1300 from a single sitting. And, he may not be in the top 10% with a 3.4 GPA.</p>
<p>The OP hasn’t been back for awhile. I think he thought that he could borrow all his costs and has since learned that he can’t. He probably will have to go to a GA instate public because of HOPE.</p>
<p>I do have a friend who’s D is close to not graduating and her GC suggested (to the mom only) the drop-out and get GED option so she can get HOPE for CC (not sure if it applies to 4-yr schools). </p>
<p>BUT as far as 3.0 in classes…I guess it is overall GPA</p>
<p>I just looked at the website and it says:
3.0 GPA on true 4.0 scale on all English, Math, Science, Social Studies & foreign Language with weighting for AP and IB, but not honors</p>
<p>Maybe that was what I remembered…S took primarily honors and they took away the weighting for that. But I distinctly remember being told by a GC that a C in his Spanish class freshman year pulled him out of the running for HOPE…maybe it was a dream??? :-)</p>
<p>I think many applicants forget that Room & Board can run $8,000-$11,000/per year, depending on the school, & of course those numbers just keep going up!</p>