Good point, ucbalumnus, both the major scholarships he got are curiously not specific on GPA on their acceptance docs, one says it requires “good academic standing” and the other says “satisfactory” grades.
BTW my son put an email in to one outside scholarship asking if it would be possible to defer it to the last two years of college, since the UW scholarships are frontloaded for mostly the first two years. Waiting for a reply on that. The money on this outside scholarship would essentially go to waste (from our perspective) during this first year, and probably the second year as well, since it will simply displace grants, apparently dollar for dollar. (From what I’m gathering, the college would enjoy this outside scholarship now because it would save the college grant money.)