Georgia_Hope_Scholarship

Georgia Hope Scholarship What should we do about the HOPE' The “HOPE” scholarship is a touchy yet important subject that Georgia politicians and residents have had mixed views about. However, with the drainage that is occurring from the lottery that is funding the scholarship, we as Georgia residents have to face reality and set a new bar for the free College tuition handout. The “HOPE” scholarship was set up to congratulate those that work hard in high school and give them a helping hand with the financial burden of college. The only requirements to receive free tuition and books at a public University is a “B” average, no SAT examination scores. This may have something to do, however, with the state of Georgia being ranked 50th for average SAT scores. For a program that was set up to raise the states ranking, it has done nothing but fail. Like Wooten, in his article “False HOPE, faux scholars” printed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution (09/21/03), I agree that the SAT needs to be taken into account also when distributing the funds. If the state of Georgia wants to score better on the exams then they must put more emphasize on them and what more of an scholarship, sat, georgia, state, scores, should, however, hope, free, college, set, given, bar, average, wooten, university, tuition, take, something, residents, raise, make, lottery, incentive, grade, funds, families, distributing, believe, being, based, account, yet, year, work