{"id":5497,"date":"2019-10-22T11:19:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T16:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/?p=5497"},"modified":"2019-10-22T11:19:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T16:19:27","slug":"new-scholarship-program-griffon-guarantee-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/2019\/10\/22\/new-scholarship-program-griffon-guarantee-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"New scholarship program: Griffon Guarantee Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>大象传媒 Western will launch a scholarship program beginning fall 2020 that automatically renews and increases in value each year. The Griffon Guarantee Scholarship will be offered to qualifying incoming freshmen and transfer students.<\/p>\n<p>The Griffon Guarantee Scholarship differs from previous 大象传媒 Western programs and from scholarships at other institutions in the following ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Annual scholarship renewal is guaranteed<\/strong> for students who remain in good academic standing (minimum 2.0 GPA).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Automatic upgrades to scholarship amounts<\/strong>. Recipients will receive an additional $1000 at the 30-credit mark, $500 at the 60-credit mark, and $500 at the 90-credit mark, meaning that recipients will receive $2,000 more in their fourth year of school than they did in the first year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The base first-year award for the Griffon Guarantee Scholarship will range from $500 to $6,500 for incoming freshmen and $500 to $1,500 for transfer students. With the automatic renewal and upgrades, the scholarship will provide students up to $4,500 in additional aid over the course of eight semesters.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify, incoming freshmen must have a high school GPA of at least 3.0 and ACT score of at least 19. Also, students with a lower ACT score may be eligible depending on their GPA. Transfer students with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher and at least 12 credit hours will qualify for the Griffon Guarantee Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Full details are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/finaid\/griff-guarantee\">missouriwestern.edu\/finaid\/griff-guarantee<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>大象传媒 Western will launch a scholarship program beginning fall 2020 that automatically renews and increases in value each year. The Griffon Guarantee Scholarship will be offered to qualifying incoming freshmen and transfer students. The Griffon Guarantee Scholarship differs from previous 大象传媒 Western programs and from scholarships at other institutions in the following ways: Annual scholarship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5498,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5497\/revisions\/5498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}