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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD has a full tuition scholarship - letter says she gets it all four years as long as she maintains at least a 3.0. I assume the letter means what it says - did other people have similar wording and their offer still got yanked?  I don’t see how that’s possible, since the four year offer was accepted and terms were met.  [/quote]

I'm the one who posted about my own and my nephew's experience. In both cases, it came as a complete shock because there were absolutely no indications of any conditions under which we had to maintain a certain grade point average, or any other conditions for renewal of the award.  My parents would have been very vigilant that I was meeting the requirements, if there had been any.  I got straight A's, was elected a freshman rep in the student government, played on teams, made good friends -was pretty much a model citizen.  Same for my nephew - he was given no indications that there were conditions for his award.  
I know that people want to believe that these colleges' decisions must have a rational basis, and my conclusion is that it has to do with wealthy private colleges hanging on to their wealth while simultaneously pumping up the stats for test scores of first year admits and their "yield." 
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I have never heard of a school that dies not impose conditions, such as full time enrollment for example.[/quote]

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