For those interested, here is a recent update by UK to their scholarship page:
Award opportunities for freshmen entering in Fall 2018 (high school class of 2018) will be announced in early August 2017. Kentucky Governor’s Scholar/School for the Arts Scholarships will remain unchanged for Fall 2018 applicants. Please check the website in early August for other scholarship updates.
Obviously still waiting on a lot of specifics on what is happening for the Patterson (guaranteed full ride for NMF only) and the Singletary (competitive with min 33 ACT). Interesting though no changes to the guaranteed Presidential full tuition (not full ride) for Governor Scholar kids with 31+ ACT. Governors Scholars is in state only, about a 1000 kids, but many of them don’t have the 31+ ACT so they go elsewhere (other in state public with lower ACT threshold). But a decent portion of the 1000 do have the 31+ and a lot of them typically end up at UK. At DS high school the GSP kids with the 31+ typically go to UK and the under 31 end up going to U of L or WKU.
This tells something about where the shrinking merit dollars will be spent. On in state kids versus out of state NMFs? To early to conclude that but that has been my guess. They may (and I hope) they keep the full ride for the in state NMF kids, even if they decide to discontinue for out of state NMFs. U of Louisville does it this way, so they wouldn’t lose in state kids to U of L if they go this route.