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Originally Posted by alum
Are there stats on how many HOPE recipients don't keep a 3.O? From what I understand (and please correct me if I'm wrong), the Hope is for all 3.5+ GPAs from an instate GA hs (public or private) for ANY GA public university?
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They changed the requirements this year. There was a good article in the AJC about a week ago explaining the changes. But basically honors classes are no longer weighted. And, with the change it should help weed out students who really were not "B" students but rather "C" students which resulted in their admission but not being able to sustain the grades needed to keep HOPE. They are expecting the retention figures to be higher this year from this class based on the new change. There were many Georgia kids who had expected to get HOPE and only found out a week or so ago that they didn't get it.
As for what HOPE pays -- it does pay the tuition and fees and some towards books, but the fees amount had been capped awhile back so it does NOT cover UGA's current full tuition/fees and basically nothing for books. As for the class not to be at 100% I, too assume because of the out-of state attendees. Seems to be many there from Virginia/DC area and Texas.
Also, we learned that at Auburn if you are from out of state and received enough internal academic scholarship money that equaled the in-state tuition then the out-of-state tuition is waived. I understand that they do this to compete with the HOPE and get some of the otherwise UGA or GA Tech kids. It also helped a lot of kids who got deferred from UGA or not admitted -- they were offered a great opportunity and price from Auburn.