<p>My son has applied for outside scholarships as a frosh. Several of them were a chance to continue scholarships he got while in high school. He has dealt with the GPA issue by sending his high school. transcript again, his all “pass” Caltech transcript, and a copy of the portion of the catalog that explains the pass-fail grading the first two terms. That is also how we have dealt with his good student discount on our car insurance. So far, we have not had any problems with this approach. He considered sending shadow grades on his unoffical grade report, but not all of his profs put his shadow grades in and he thought it would be weird to have only about half of the grades there. I highly encourage you to seek outside scholarships. He got some Caltech scholarship, and of course we got stuck with our EFC, but the remaining amount of his need, about $8,000, was supposedly met with some kind of lousy loans. We were already taking out loans to meet our EFC. He replaced many of those loans with outside scholarships, which are applied to loans and work study before they are applied to his Caltech scholarship.</p>