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Show Garfield Students Get Scholarships Eight Garfield County high school graduates who will attend Southern Utah State College are among 131 receiving scholarships to the college from 49 high schools all over Utah. Named from Bryce Valley High School for scholarships were Cari Baugh, Tropic; Escalante High School, Natalie Coombs, Boulder and Stephanie Griffin, Escalante; and from Panguitch High School, Clint Barney, Annette Hatch, Lisa Hcnrie, Laurel Matthews and Monica Mon-ica Miller, all Panguitch. For the first time in several years, SUSC used a rating formula for evaluating the hundreds of freshmen scholarship applications it received this year, said Marlynn Smith, SUSC senior admissions officer. Smith said 730 freshmen applied for scholarships. "We are reaching out for the better students and trying try-ing to compete with Utah's other colleges and universities for these students," said Smith. "Because of the state money situation, we must also work with a tighter scholarship budget We can't issue a scholarship unless we have the money." Because of the large number of applications and limited funds, Smith said the cutoff rates were much higher for the various scholarship schol-arship categories. Using a strict mathematical formula, in-coming freshman needed a combination score of 3.48 or higher to qualify for a one-year regents scholarship. Smith said the combination score roughly equaled an ACT score of 27 or higher and a grand point average of 3.7 or higher. SUSC awarded a four-year honors hon-ors scholarship to 1 1 students with the highest combination scores. After acceptance, these students will maintain a 3.8 grade point average to continue their scholarship. Utah's sterling scholars needed a minimum 3.5 grade point to qualify for scholarships. If students met the " " ' ' requirements, Smith said high school sterling scholars received funding for one year, regional winners win-ners received funding for two years and regional runner-up scholars received re-ceived funding for one and a half years. Smith said SUSC usually offers a four-year scholarship to Utah and some Nevada high school student body presidents, but to even gain consideration this year, she said these individuals needed a minimum 3.6 grade point average. To keep the scholarship, they must maintain a minimum 3.3 college grade point average. For the first time, SUSC's academic aca-demic departments and deans accepted ac-cepted a few freshmen for departmental depart-mental and deans' council scholarships. scholar-ships. Smith said these scholarships scholar-ships usually go toward continuing students, but the departments are reaching out to help in-coming freshmen during the state budget crunch. |