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UT students may lose their HOPE scholarships, but they aren’t losing hope
Posted By katie allison granju
An interesting factoid from Kay Watson’s story on HOPE Scholarship grads at UT :
Figures from the state show most UT students who originally receive Hope scholarships continue going to school, even if they lose them.
Statistics show that after three years, 84 percent of students who were first awarded the scholarship were still in school this fall. Close to half of them, or 39 percent, weren’t getting HOPE money anymore.
So it looks like getting a boost into the state’s college system encouraged a lot of students to hang in there and figure out a way to pay for school, even if they lost the state dollars. I suspect most of those are the students who could have paid without assistance anyway.
May 9th, 2008
