<p>If your school doesn’t tell them your grades by percentage, they can’t calculate your GPA on a 100-point scale, so the buffer won’t help you. If they do, or if the grades dragging your GPA down are in non-core classes, you might make their cutoff.</p>
<p>Regardless, those scholarships are given on sort of a sliding scale, and being over a 3.7 does not guarantee any specific amount besides at least half tuition. What I mean is that a slight GPA difference won’t be the difference between 2k and 20k a year, and, as Walker said, we can’t really predict these things too accurately. If you like the school, apply anyway; you’ll definitely get something (assuming ACT/SAT is good). Just don’t use it as a financial safety if you need most of tuition to be taken care of.</p>