TAKING SOME PROMISE OUT OF PROMISE SCHOLARSHIPS

(12/20/2008)

A review committee is now recommending a $4,500 annual cap for the state's PROMISE scholarship to control the program's costs. The Promise Scholarship Ad-Hoc Advisory Committee writes in a draft report that raising standards for the merit-based scholarship would exclude more low-income students. They believe a cap would be a better alternative. Students must have at least a 3.0 grade average to receive a PROMISE scholarship. If the proposed cap is adopted, PROMISE would no longer pay full tuition at some colleges where these costs exceed $4,500. That would include West Virginia University and Marshall University. The report says PROMISE has "moderately increased" the state's college-going rate. Recipients have higher GPAs and four-year graduation rates than other students.

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