GPA and scholorships questions. - by duckman
duckman on 2/9/2006 at 23:51
Hi, I've always considered people on this forum intelligent so I thought this would be a good forum to post these questions.
I currently have a 2.53 GPA after 1 year of college and 1 summer class totaling 11 courses. Now I realize this is fairly bad, and I have excuses for my pour performance and I'm not going to get into that because who cares right? I was wondering if for scholarships the GPA which is looked at is your entire GPA from start to finish or is it your GPA of your last year or semester. Also I'd like to know if they take into account if your GPA jumped from 2.51 the first year to say 3.6 the second year.
DarkViper on 3/9/2006 at 00:12
Quote Posted by duckman
I have excuses for my
pour poor performance
Fixed.:thumb:
AFAIK from what I have heard about this kinda of stuff, they [the scholarship people]
will look at your entire GPA as an average, however there's a possibility they will also hold a little more weight* on grades for the recent year. The reason for that seems to make sense, something along the lines of, "OLOL PARTY HARDY FIRST YEAR ADJUSTING TO TEH COLLEGE YA!"
*They'll give more consideration to amazing grades/GPA during the final year, although they still won't completely dismiss your first year.
Aerothorn on 3/9/2006 at 05:27
I think the answer is somewhat 'it depends on the scholarship. Some scholarships are like that, computed by robots based on your GPA and whatnot - others you actually apply for, and write up why you think you deserve/need it - while I think the latter are a minority they are out there, and for those ones you can explain why your GPA is the way it is.
When I saw this topic I was afraid someone had already posted 'the college topic', which I plan to post once I know where I'm going. Weee.
Renegen on 3/9/2006 at 18:43
The answer is dependant of the scholarships and it's no at the same time. Most colleges allure you with 'We throw money at you, seriously!' but they'll come up with any excuse to cancel/not give scholarships.
Moghedian on 3/9/2006 at 18:55
Some scholarships are based on total GPA, and others are need-based. A few are simply based on your major, or exceptional accomplishments. Wasn't this something that needed to be done with the financial aid paperwork ?
Anyway, a talk with your financial aid advisor may be the way to go.
aguywhoplaysthief on 3/9/2006 at 19:42
Unless he has the Orange County financial aid advisor.
Aerothorn on 4/9/2006 at 06:09
Quote Posted by Renegen
The answer is dependant of the schol
arships and it's no at the same time. Most colleges allure you with 'We throw money at you, seriously!' but they'll come up with any excuse to cancel/not give scholarships.
Bad experience?
Again, it depends completely on the college. In the USA, most colleges (public and private) rely on federal dollars to do financial aid - with the recent financial aid cuts to 'lower the deficit' (lol), many colleges are struggling to give much aid.
On the other hand, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_College">some</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherst_College">colleges</a> are swimming in endowment cash, and can afford to give lots of scholarships/financial aid (up to a free ride for the poor super-students) to anyone they want to.
Aerothorn on 4/9/2006 at 06:10
Quote Posted by Renegen
The answer is dependant of the schol
arships and it's no at the same time. Most colleges allure you with 'We throw money at you, seriously!' but they'll come up with any excuse to cancel/not give scholarships.
Bad experience?
Again, it depends completely on the college. In the USA, most colleges (public and private) rely on federal dollars to do financial aid - with the recent financial aid cuts to 'lower the deficit' (lol), many colleges are struggling to give much aid.
On the other hand, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard">some</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale">colleges</a> are swimming in endowment cash (Over 25 billion for the former!), and can afford to give lots of scholarships/financial aid (up to a free ride for the poor super-students) to anyone they want to.
Renegen on 4/9/2006 at 14:02
I'm just telling it how it is, in a lot of universities. Distributing federal money shouldn't be too hard. I did hear of fully paid scholarships and that's pretty good for the students. Also here, scholarships are only based on merit, those with financial aid are 'bursaries' and I didn't include them in my comments, to get those you have to appear really poor on your application.
