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HOPE Scholarship

The HOPE Scholarship is available to Georgia residents who graduate from high school as a HOPE Scholar with a 3.0 or better GPA and meet all other requirements (citizenship, residency, etc.). Georgia Student Finance Commission (GSFC) determines students who are HOPE Scholars upon graduation from high school.

If a student is not a designated HOPE Scholar upon graduation from high school, a student may become eligible by completing at least 30 semester hours of degree level courses at a college or university and maintain a required 3.0 GPA at the 30, 60, or 90 hour checkpoint. The student will need to complete the HOPE Scholarship application, which is available in the Financial Aid Office, and the student must ensure that all transcripts from previously attended colleges or universities have been submitted to the Office of the Registrar. The student must be enrolled in a degree program of study to receive the scholarship.

The HOPE Scholarship is not awarded to students who have already earned a Bachelor’s degree (either in the U.S. or from any other country). Students must maintain a 3.0 GPA at the 30, 60, and 90 hour checkpoint at the end of every Spring semester to remain eligible.

Students who received the HOPE Scholarship prior to Summer term 2011, and meet all other eligibility requirements for HOPE Scholarship, may receive the HOPE Scholarship until June 30 following the completion of the seventh full year after the first of one of the following events has occurred:

The first of the high school graduation date; or

The graduation date of the student’s high school class if the student withdrew from high school prior to his or her graduation date; or

The Home Study completion date; or

The successful GED test date.

The scholarship will pay for 127 semester hours. These 127 hours include any HOPE grant paid hours. The term that the student meets the cap, the scholarship will only pay for hours up to the cap. (Example: The student has 124 semester hours at the end of Fall semester. The student registers for 6 hours for Spring semester. The HOPE Scholarship will only pay for 3 credit hours for Spring semester).

The tuition amount paid for by the HOPE Scholarship will be paid the same as indicated above for the HOPE grant.