TheFlorida Vivid Future Scholarship is available to Florida high school seniors and is awarded upon completion of the 7th semester of high school requirements. Applications are available for high schoolhouse seniors each year beginning December 1st. To utilize, Florida residents must have their high school guidance counselor submit their data and authorization form to the Florida Bright Futures Plan at the Florida Department of Pedagogy. Your eligibility is determined based on performance throughout high school.

  • Final Borderline for Bright Future Scholarship applications: Your terminal day of high school
  • Where to check the status of your Bright Futures Scholarship Application: Become to the Office of Student Financial Aid (OSFA) website and click "Bank check My Condition" under Applicant Quick Links.

Qualifications

  • The scholarship y'all receive is adamant based on bookish achievement in loftier school, SAT and Human action scores, and fulfillment of certain requirements.
  • To apply for a Bright Futures Scholarship, submit a completed Florida Financial Assistance Application during your last year in high school (after Dec ane and prior to graduation). It is your responsibleness to know and come across the requirements of the Vivid Futurity Scholarship Programme earlier loftier school graduation. Y'all may employ online at Florida Educatee Fiscal Aid.

Laurels Corporeality

  • The value of each credit hour will be determined by the State on an annual ground.
  • Award amounts will exist updated based on the bodily number of credits yous enroll in after driblet/add.
  • Florida Country University volition project the honour for the year based on 15 credit hours each semester and at the stop of driblet/add each term.
BRIGHT FUTURES SCHOLARSHIP RATES 2019-2020
Brilliant Futures Academic Scholarship

$213.55/credit
Book/Expenses honour of $300 per term (Fall/Spring only)
Vivid Futures Medallion Scholarship $160.xvi/credit

Renewing Your Vivid Futures Scholarship

  • Bright Futures is renewed based off your GPA and credit hours at the end of the Jump term.
  • Florida State University will ship the Office of Student Financial Assistance your GPA and hours earned.
  • Your Financial Assistance Recipient History (FARH) study on the OSFA website will post your eligibility for renewal.

Annual Credit Hour Information for Renewals

Credit Hour Renewal Requirement

  • Students must earn a certain number of credit hours in order to renew your Vivid Futures, based on credit hours funded afterward drop/add.
  • To know better how your individual scenario volition affect the number of hours yous need to take each term, you lot should apply the Vivid Futures Credit Hour Interactive Tool, located on the Vivid Futures Home Page. This tool allows students to customize the credit hour requirement to their private enrollment scenario per term. Students are also required to maintain GPA requirements. For all renewal requirements, visit the Role of Student Fiscal Aid website.
Almanac renewal occurs at the stop of the Spring semester. This ways, if your GPA is beneath a ii.75-2.99 at the finish of Autumn, you accept until the finish of Spring to meet the requirement(s).

GPA Renewal Requirement

  • GPA Renewal Requirement: 3.0 for Florida Academic Scholar honor; 2.75 for Florida Medallion Scholar award
  • What Happens if Your GPA Drops and/or You Practise Non Come across the Annual Renewal Hours Requirements?
    • Students who failed to encounter the renewal GPA requirement in their first-twelvemonth of funding may have their eligibility restored (i-time).
    • FSU will report an updated GPA for any students who enroll in summer classes immediately following their offset year, and if the accolade was lost on GPA simply, information technology may be restored if the GPA is raised to the required level (2.75 for Medallion or three.0 for Bookish).
    • Students who exercise not enroll, or who do not meet the GPA at that fourth dimension, may apply for Reinstatement through the land Reinstatement application at the end of the Bound term, if their GPA at that fourth dimension meets criteria.

Reinstating/Restoring Bright Futures

Reinstatement

  • If you did non receive honour funding in the bookish year immediately following your graduation from high school, yous must apply inside two or three years of high school graduation to reinstate the honour.
  • If you take received funding for a minimum of one term and met annual renewal requirements, y'all are eligible to utilize for reinstatement up to five years from high schoolhouse graduation.

Restoration

  • A one-fourth dimension restoration opportunity is available nether express circumstances.
  • If you fail to come across the minimum earned hours requirement in Whatsoever academic year renewal period (end of spring term), you volition NOT exist permitted a restoration opportunity.
  • If you exercise not see the minimum earned hours requirement or fail to encounter the minimum GPA requirement later on the starting time twelvemonth of funding, you lot volition Not exist permitted a restoration opportunity.
  • Florida Academic Scholars (FAS) with ii.75-2.99 GPA at the end of the renewal period volition renew as Florida Medallion Scholars (FMS). If the GPA improves in a higher place a 3.0 in a subsequent renewal menses, the student will restore equally a FAS, using the former restoration opportunity.
  • Summer grades and hours earned later spring evaluation may be used to come across the scholarship renewal requirements if the you have a one-time restoration opportunity available. You must enquire a financial aid advisor at FSU to submit a summer grades and hours update to the Brilliant Futures part indicating the adjusted cumulative GPA and hours.
  • If your last status was ineligible for not meeting renewal requirements and you did non receive funding during the previous academic year, you volition need to submit a Reinstatement/Restoration Awarding. If you lot were initially eligible and enlisted in the military or engaged in a full-time religious or service obligation, see "Applying for Reinstatement" in Pupil Handbook: Affiliate 3 for specific information.

Repaying Bright Futures

  • You lot will be required to reimburse the Florida Department of Education for the cost of whatsoever courses dropped or withdrawn from afterward drop/add.
  • If non paid dorsum, you will lose your Bright Futures scholarship permanently.
  • Afterwards repayment, those hours are returned to your 60 minutes's remaining for funding purposes.
  • Due to verifiable affliction or emergency, you lot may make a written entreatment to FSU for hours dropped or withdrawn after the last day of the drop/add menstruation.

For the latest and additional data on the Florida Brilliant Futures Scholarship, visit the OFSA Bright Futures website.