If you like, SPA can recruit your selection committee and manage your entire scholarship-winner selection process. Type of courses taken. Grades and grade trends. If the student is attending a competitive magnet or private school with mostly high achievers, class rank may have less importance. Standardized test scores.
Standardized tests gauge native ability, while grades reflect level of work.
The relationship between a student s grades and standard scores may indicate how hard the student is or isn t working. We recommend that scholarship checks be made payable to the school but mailed directly to the student to be presented in person. We ve found this streamlines the payment process and eliminates confusion for the student. Large awards reduce the number of students you can help, and may result in an unfavorable revision of a winner s financial aid package from the college. If the award is just for one year, the student may be caught without enough resources for following years.