HCC has new scholarships available for students

Nov 18, 2014

Are you making good grades? Could you use a little help paying for college?

HCC has new scholarships that have been developed and will be automatically awarded to a variety of students beginning in the Spring semester 2015. But in order to be considered, you must have filled out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form.

With the application completed. you could be considered for one of the following scholarships:

HONORS COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS

• You must be participating in the Honors College to receive the funds that will cover tuition and fees not already covered by another source of financial aid.

CHANCELLOR'S SCHOLARSHIPS

• Designed to encourage very high performing students to finish their degree at HCC. $300 will be awarded per semester to students with a 4.0 cumulative GPA who have 30 or more semester credit hours recorded at HCC. If the student receives other aid, he/she must also maintain satisfactory academic progress. The student can retain this scholarship as long as cumulative GPA remains at 4.0.

IMPACT SCHOLARSHIPS

• This scholarship targets students with an expected family contribution per FAFSA of $2.500 to $5.1 00. semester enrollment of 9 semester credit hours or more. and who are either new students or have a cumulative GPA of greater than 2.90. Students will retain scholarship as long as they meet all three criteria elements. New students have a clean slate. but will lose the scholarship upon posting a GPA lower than 2.90.

Fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) now.