Undergraduate Merit Scholarships Available

2000 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-12
Author(s):  
F. L. C.
Keyword(s):  
Merit Scholarships

Merit scholarships are no quick fix for college quality

1988 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Kealy ◽  
Mark L. Rockel
Keyword(s):  
College Quality ◽  
Merit Scholarships

scholarly journals Crafting a Class: The Trade-Off between Merit Scholarships and Enrolling Lower-Income Students

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald G. Ehrenberg ◽  
Liang Zhang ◽  
Jared M. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Lower Income ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Merit Scholarships

Free Community College and Merit Scholarships

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (180) ◽  
pp. 67-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Elliott Buchanan ◽  
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Merit Scholarships

Merit-Based Scholarships and Student Effort

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rey Hernández-Julián
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Grade Point Average ◽  
Administrative Database ◽  
Clemson University ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Student Effort ◽  
Course Characteristics ◽  
Merit Scholarships ◽  
Merit Scholarship ◽  
The Relationship

Twenty-one states offer merit scholarships that require students to maintain a minimum grade point average (GPA). Using a comprehensive administrative database from Clemson University, this study estimates the relationship between the incentives created by a South Carolina merit scholarship (LIFE) and students' academic performance. I hypothesize that being at risk of gaining or losing this scholarship will lead to increased effort and, as a consequence, higher grades. The results suggest that the incentives created by the scholarship increase GPAs by as much as 0.101 on a four-point scale, controlling for student and course characteristics. Moreover, the results indicate that for men the relationship between the risk of gaining or losing the scholarship and grades is large and statistically significant; for women, however, there is little evidence that the scholarship is related to grades.

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