Merit Grant Reviews?

swimcatsmom
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:09:00 +0000

Most merit awards I have seen do have some sort of minimum requirement - often a certain number of credit hours a year and a certain GPA. The most common retention rule I hear is checking you meet the requirements at the end of the spring term each year, but it may be at the end of summer or even at the end of each semester. Some scholarships may give a grace period where you can earn the scholarship back if you meet the requirements after another semester, others once you lose it it is gone forever. The requirements vary not only from school to school but between different scholarships within a school. In fact my daughter has a scholarship that is a single scholarship but that is financed from 2 different sources and each part has different retention requirements. The cash part of the scholarship is financed by the State and has different retention requirements (slightly higher GPA) than the full tuition waiver part that is provided by the school. So she could lose one part of the scholarship and keep the other. (touch wood she has not yet).

You definitely need to ask the school and read the rules for any merit award you are offered.