<p>The Husky Promise is something the U of W offers to low income students that guarantees their tuition to be paid in full by the university without having to pay anything back, although there are alot more requirements.</p>
<p>If I take running start, will I still be eligible for the Husky Promise? Does anyone know where I could find this out if you dont know the answer? Please help. Thanks.</p>
<p>Sweetie, this is not hard. Google “Husky Promise” and you come up with the right website right away. Go to Frequently Asked Questions and you find the requirements:</p>
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<li>Who qualifies for the Husky Promise?
To be eligible for the Husky Promise, a student must:</li>
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<p>Be a Washington state resident
Be eligible for the Pell Grant or State Need Grant Program. (Currently, the State Need Grant program funds students with family incomes at or below 65 percent of the state median family income.)
Submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) by the UW’s priority filing date of Feb. 28 for the following academic year.
Enroll full time.
Be pursuing a first bachelor’s degree.
Maintain satisfactory academic progress while at the University.
[Frequently</a> Asked Questions : Husky Promise - washington.edu](<a href=“Frequently asked questions | The Husky Promise”>Frequently asked questions | The Husky Promise)</p>
<p>If you are really worried about the Running Start aspects (doesn’t look like you need to worry) then go ahead and contact the UW financial aid staff with your questions.</p>
<p>Here’s what you do NOT do in the future: ask an internet forum for the details of an established program. The reason that you don’t want to do that is that this is basically a gossip site. Sure, you can gather some important tips, but no one here is a UW decision maker. You can get your head full of gossip and completely miss what the Decision Maker wants (“I heard that if I eat bananas and sing the National Anthem backwards, then I qualify for free tuition!” instead of focusing on “Must complete FAFSA by Feb 28 of the high school senior year”). </p>
<p>Running Start can be awesome for the right student. You can earn two years of college credit without paying tuition – and that is a terrific deal (a savings of about $40K!). But you do give up two years of high school. It seems to work well for the students who are not that strongly tied to the high school life and get tired of the close supervision that goes on in high school. </p>
<p>I did meet one young woman who did Running Start her junior year and found that she missed seeing her friends and being in high school activities. She switched back to high school classes so she could enjoy her senior year. </p>
<p>Do talk to the high school and Running Start co-ordinator to find out what kind of student does well (you have to be mature enough to handle college level classes and it can be much harder to make friends). Also, make sure the classes you take DO count at UW (something like a bakery class is vocational and might not transfer). </p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks…</p>