So one my friends got into Georgia Tech and got a full ride from the school, I can’t remember the name of the scholarship. But anyways, I heard her saying that she has like a 10:00 curfew and she’s not allowed to drink, and she has no choice but to go on out of country summer trips and such. So basically, my question is, if I were to get a full-ride scholarship from a school, say UF with the Lombardi scholarship, would I experience these same restrictions or anything similar?
It’s up to the scholarship terms. My daughter has an athletic scholarship and she has all kinds of requirements to keep it, including study tables. She had to be at study tables for 8 hours a week in her first semester, until she made grades. She also had to be in the gym at 5:30, so while there may not have been a curfew, the fact was she had to be in bed by 10. There are many alcohol restrictions and they are enforced by the coach.
Do most scholarships have these restrictions? No, most just have a gpa requirement or something like that (unless you are at a religious school, where there can be all kinds of restrictions and requirements).
Don’t take the scholarship if you don’t like the conditions.
Most scholarships would have a GPA and minimum credit per semester requirement.
Could you find out the name of that scholarship at Georgia Tech?
What’s wrong with not being able to drink…and going on out of country summer trips? Perhaps she has study times after 10.
Most academic scholarships have a GPA requirement–sometimes this is very high. One of my kids has a scholarship othat required her to live on campus for two years. I’ve seen terms for other large scholarships at her school and others that require the recipient to commit to making regular donations to the school after graduation. It’s important to read the terms before accepting the scholarship to make sure the terms are acceptable to you, and so that you understand what you must do to keep the scholarship all four years.
@thumper1 I’m sure that’s the presidential scholarship, which have all been upgraded to “Stamps President scholars”.
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2016/04/01/georgia-tech-announces-stamps-presidents-scholars-program
I have no clue where the curfew is coming from, but you do have to participate in the “enrichment experiences” (leadership program), since that’s the POINT of the scholarship… :-j
UF"s The Lombardi and Stamps Scholarships (very similar to GT’s):
That’s a fabulous scholarship! I’m quite sure that my kids would,have gone back to their dorms at 8 pm to get this generous award.
And again I ask the OP…what is wrong with not drinking…and doing a study abroad that is fully funded by this scholarship?
OP- I don’t think your friend gave you correct information. My DD goes to GT and has friends who are Stamps Scholars and they definitely have gone out past 10. Plus I have been to professional parties with Stamps Scholars and have seen them take a drink. Stamps is a great program and I couldn’t see GT making it that restrictive. My DD has some merit money from GT and she has no such restrictions. The summer trips are actually leadership trips and Stamps pays for them. They are not the entire summer and are around 1-2 weeks so the Stamps Scholars I know do not look at them as any burden.
Forced to endure foreign travel? Oh, the horror!!
If you sacrifice a little during college (when most of the time you are underage anyway), then you might be debt free at graduation and can fully enjoy your adult lifestyle in your own apartment, whereas some students need to move back in with parents after college to pay off their loans.
@thumper1 I suspect the problem with not drinking is that since around the 1400s or before a substantial number of college students have had a few drinks in college if they wanted them. Many consider it a part of the experience. I take by the tenor of your question that you do not approve at all of college-aged drinking or of 18- to 21-year-olds asserting their rights to be treated as full citizens. Certainly we could debate it, but just accept that some students would like to have a beer, and this desire does not make them aberrant. Other students have no desire to drink, and that should be their right.
I should note that laws vary when it comes to alcohol. In some states, including my own, it appears perfectly legal for minors to own and consume alcohol in the privacy of their homes. The person who sells or gives it to them is breaking the law, but it is not illegal for them to purchase it so long as the purchase is made in the privacy of their residence, as the laws prohibiting purchase require that the purchase and/or possession be in a “public” place to be illegal. So the scholarship is demanding that students refrain from engaging in perfectly legal conduct.
I agree with you in finding it odd that someone would find an opportunity to study abroad a burden rather than a unique educational opportunity.
I honestly do not approve of underage drinking but totally recognize it happens!
But this OP has an issue about it… Because he might need to adhere to this law to maintain a VERY generous scholarship? Please! I don’t think it’s too much to ask when a school is giving you a TON of free money per year to attend.
@thumper1 My answer was probably a little argumentative, but anyone who is eligible for a full scholarship that demands they totally abstain from alcohol can probably get one somewhere else that is less restrictive. I can understand how for many students it might be a problem. My son doesn’t run with the high-school drunk crowd, but I don’t think he’d like to be told he couldn’t have a single beer for four years, either.
It didn’t have anything to do with drinking, but my son didn’t want to go to summer school for free this summer (tuition, room, board), as he would have had to stay on campus for the entire summer, never leaving the campus save some weekends, no visitors to his room, no use of car, and in his room by 9:30 p.m. every night. It might have been okay if we lived 40 or more miles from the school, but we live four. So we paid half tuition of about $1,800 for 12 hours. It was worth it for him to be able to see his girlfriend and do things with his friends. Leaving the alcohol issue aside, my son probably would choose a lesser scholarship over a full ride that had a 10 p.m. curfew every night, and I’d be okay with that. A 10 p.m. curfew seems amazingly restrictive.
It’s a choice. Students do choose to attend BYU, Liberty, Ave Marie and accept their scholarships and agree to the very strict rules.
I don’t agree that
. The Stamps scholarships are highly competitive.
It’s nice that your son could choose to pay the $1800 to buy his freedom to see his girlfriend, but many students do not have that option. If my kids were given the option to live on campus for free or have me pay the $1800 and be stuck with the rules, they would have lived on campus (or not attended at all). Sometimes you have to take the offer and live with the conditions.
Organizations handing out free money can and do attach restrictions as they see fit. The key is to understand the terms of the scholarship so the student can make an informed decision with regards to his or her ability to meet and abide by the terms that are offered. A student that can’t bear the thought of a four year alcohol restriction shouldn’t accept a scholarship that has one. Some other kid may be happy to have the help paying for college, rules and all.
I’m pretty sure that they will not be checking at all times whether you’re drinking or not…Just be extremely careful/smart to not get caught.
^^ Problem is once you start drinking, it’s usually too late for the the thinking and being smart.
If you accept the scholarship, accept the terms. My daughter has very strict restrictions on drinking by her scholarship. She has to live within the rules.
^ Well that depends on how you drink. Not everyone younger than 21 wants to binge. Maybe the OP just wants a drink or two occasionally.
Getting drunk every weekend would not be smart, but there’s nothing wrong with the OP opening a beer every once in a while.
@Lilliana330 I went to college in another era, but it was illegal to have alcohol on campus. I was “caught” a couple of times with an open beer and the police just told me to pour it out. We used to have some big parties at a house I lived in, but somehow none of us were never cited for so much as a noise complaint. I “could” have been charged many times but never was.
Meanwhile, my nephew got an alcohol “strike” at the same school because his RA looked in his open dorm room and saw an unopened beer on his desk. These things are so random, but the RA was a jerk and my nephew was written up and put on probation for a year and required to attend alcohol education classes. A second offense and he would have been suspended from school.
My point is that one might be able to slip a drink every so often, but it would have to be done with utmost discretion. For many people, the worry would make it not worth it.
My nephew got a minor in possession charge. Wasn’t binge drinking, wasn’t being wild, just drinking his first drink, and issued a citation. If he was on a scholarship that prohibited drinking, he’d have lost the scholarship. Bad decision made while not drunk. Should he have been able to have just one drink if he wanted to? Apparently not.