Georgia HOPE Scholarship 2013 2014

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The HOPE Scholarship, created in 1993 by the state of Georgia legislature, is a university scholarship program that has been adopted by several other states. HOPE (a reverse acronym for "helping outstanding pupils educationally") is funded entirely revenue from the Georgia Lottery and is administered by the Georgia Student Finance Commission.

The program is entirely merit-based, meaning that a student's ability to pay for his/her own education is not a factor in determining if he/she receives it.

The basic requirements are:

The student is a resident of the state of Georgia
The student graduated high school with a 3.0 GPA ('B average')
The student maintains a 3.0 GPA throughout college
The scholarship pays full tuition, a $150 per semester book allowance, and most mandatory fees for the recipient to attend any public university in Georgia up until the semester in which the student takes his or her 127th academic hour. In some instances, an equivalent amount is applied towards tuition for private universities in Georgia.

Website
http://www.gsfc.org/hope/