HELPING OUTSTANDING PUPILS EDUCATIONALLY (HOPE)

Hope Scholarship and Grant

If you complete an Electronic HOPE Application online please notify us Financial_aid@spsu.edu.

Georgia's HOPE program provides scholarship and grant assistance to legal residents of Georgia attending eligibile Georgia post-secondary institutions. To be eligible for a HOPE scholarship in a degree program as an entering freshman a student must meet Georgia residency requirements, meet citizenship requirements, be registered with Selective Service if required, be a 1993 or later graduate of an eligible high school, and be classified as a FINAL HOPE SCHOLAR. Students graduating from high school prior to 1993 or students who were not academically eligible immediately are eligible after high school graduation may be eligible for a HOPE scholarship after attempting 30, 60, or 90 semester hours, if a 3.0 cummulative grade point average is earned. All legal residents of Georgia who meet HOPE eligibility requirements may receive a HOPE grant to seek a technical certificate that is awarded and issued by the institution and approved by the Board of Regents.

To continue to receive HOPE, both scholarship and grant students must maintain satisfactory academic progress. Scholarship students must have a cummulative grade point average of at least a 3.0 at the 30, 60, 90 attempted semester hour checkpoints. It is important to remember that attempted hours generally include all credit hours attempted after high school graduation, as well as hours from which the student withdrew after the official drop/add period. Additionally, scholarship students may not receive HOPE for more than 127 semester hours. Grant students must be taking courses that are in their stated certificate program of study.