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The program is called TLU CHOICE and it stands for Creating Hope and Opportunityin College. The goal of the scholarshio program is to give students the chance to attend a privatw liberal arts college for the same cost of attendinbg a public collegeor university. The scholarship is available to first-time, incomin freshman and transfer students who were granted regulart admission to TLU and to eithert UT orTexas A&j for the same academic According to TLU officials, the amounty of the scholarship will be determined by takiny the cost of attendance at TLU and subtracting the cost of attendancs at Texas A&M or UT.
Students who qualifh will get a scholarship equal to the differencde of those twotuition amounts. • Incoming freshmen must seek full-timw enrollment for the fall semester. • Transfet students are required to have at leasft 54transferable hours, a cumulative 3.0 GPA and must seek full-tim admission to the fall or spriny semesters. • Meet the deadlinde for application. Freshmen must be admittedd to TLU byMay 1, 2009, and transfefr students must be admitted by June 1, for fall 2009 enrollment. Students have untik Dec. 1, 2009, to apply for the Spring 2010 semester. Studentse who receive the CHOICE scholarship cannot combine it with otherd academic scholarships awardedby TLU.
However, studentzs who are eligible toreceive non-academic TLU scholarships as well as federall and state financial aid will receive those grants in addition to the CHOICsE award. Freshmen students can receive the CHOICE scholarship for eighy semesters and transfer studenta forsix semesters, as long as the studeng maintains a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.0. TLU Vice Presidenft for Enrollment Services Norm Jone s says the new scholarship gives studentzs access to a privateuniversity education.
“TLUy CHOICE college scholarship is for studentsx who excel academically and would prefer smallerr class sizes in a privateuniversity environment, but don’ think they can afford it,” Jones says. “Large state schoolds with thousands ofstudents aren’t for everyone. With our new colleges scholarship program, students have a choice about theieeducation — without worrying that a private universityt costs more.” Texas Lutheran Universitty is a liberal arts, sciences and professional studiesx undergraduate university. The campus is locatexd east of San Antonioin Seguin.