Claim: Before the HOPE scholarship, "70 percent of the high school students who made 1400 or above on their SAT left the state of Georgia. Now, 70 percent of those stay in the state of Georgia."
Fact-check: Deal: HOPE aid keeps Georgia's brightest close to home
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Willoughby Mariano
Date published: 2012-05-01T00:00:00