TheFlorida Vivid Time to come Scholarship is available to Florida high school seniors and is awarded upon completion of the seventh semester of high schoolhouse requirements. Applications are available for high school seniors each year first December 1st. To apply, Florida residents must have their loftier school guidance advisor submit their information and authorization form to the Florida Vivid Futures Programme at the Florida Section of Education. Your eligibility is adamant based on functioning throughout high school.

  • Final Deadline for Vivid Future Scholarship applications: Your terminal twenty-four hour period of high schoolhouse
  • Where to check the status of your Bright Futures Scholarship Application: Go to the Office of Student Financial Assist (OSFA) website and click "Check My Condition" under Applicant Quick Links.

Qualifications

  • The scholarship you receive is determined based on bookish achievement in high school, SAT and ACT scores, and fulfillment of certain requirements.
  • To apply for a Bright Futures Scholarship, submit a completed Florida Financial Help Application during your last year in high schoolhouse (after December ane and prior to graduation). Information technology is your responsibility to know and see the requirements of the Bright Hereafter Scholarship Program before high school graduation. Y'all may apply online at Florida Educatee Financial Help.

Award Amount

  • The value of each credit hour volition exist determined by the State on an annual ground.
  • Honour amounts volition exist updated based on the actual number of credits you lot enroll in after drop/add together.
  • Florida State Academy will projection the honour for the yr based on 15 credit hours each semester and at the cease of drop/add each term.
Vivid FUTURES SCHOLARSHIP RATES 2019-2020
Brilliant Futures Bookish Scholarship

$213.55/credit
Volume/Expenses award of $300 per term (Fall/Spring only)
Bright Futures Medallion Scholarship $160.16/credit

Renewing Your Vivid Futures Scholarship

  • Vivid Futures is renewed based off your GPA and credit hours at the end of the Spring term.
  • Florida State Academy will send the Office of Student Financial Assistance your GPA and hours earned.
  • Your Financial Aid Recipient History (FARH) report on the OSFA website volition post your eligibility for renewal.

Annual Credit Hour Data 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 afterwards drop/add.
  • To know better how your private scenario will affect the number of hours you need to take each term, you should utilise the Bright Futures Credit Hour Interactive Tool, located on the Bright Futures Home Page. This tool allows students to customize the credit hour requirement to their private enrollment scenario per term. Students are besides required to maintain GPA requirements. For all renewal requirements, visit the Office of Pupil Financial Assistance website.
Almanac renewal occurs at the end of the Spring semester. This means, if your GPA is below a ii.75-2.99 at the cease of Fall, y'all take until the end of Spring to meet the requirement(s).

GPA Renewal Requirement

  • GPA Renewal Requirement: 3.0 for Florida Academic Scholar award; ii.75 for Florida Medallion Scholar honour
  • What Happens if Your GPA Drops and/or Y'all Practise Not Meet the Annual Renewal Hours Requirements?
    • Students who failed to meet the renewal GPA requirement in their showtime-year of funding may have their eligibility restored (i-time).
    • FSU will study an updated GPA for any students who enroll in summer classes immediately post-obit their first twelvemonth, and if the award was lost on GPA only, it may be restored if the GPA is raised to the required level (two.75 for Medallion or 3.0 for Bookish).
    • Students who practise not enroll, or who practise non meet the GPA at that fourth dimension, may utilize for Reinstatement through the state Reinstatement application at the terminate of the Leap term, if their GPA at that time meets criteria.

Reinstating/Restoring Bright Futures

Reinstatement

  • If y'all did not receive laurels funding in the academic yr immediately following your graduation from loftier school, you must utilize within 2 or three years of high school graduation to reinstate the honour.
  • If you accept received funding for a minimum of one term and met annual renewal requirements, you are eligible to apply for reinstatement up to five years from high school graduation.

Restoration

  • A former restoration opportunity is available under limited circumstances.
  • If y'all neglect to meet the minimum earned hours requirement in Whatever academic yr renewal flow (cease of spring term), you volition NOT be permitted a restoration opportunity.
  • If y'all do not meet the minimum earned hours requirement or fail to see the minimum GPA requirement afterwards the start yr of funding, you lot volition NOT be permitted a restoration opportunity.
  • Florida Academic Scholars (FAS) with 2.75-2.99 GPA at the end of the renewal period will renew every bit Florida Medallion Scholars (FMS). If the GPA improves above a 3.0 in a subsequent renewal menses, the student will restore every bit a FAS, using the i-time restoration opportunity.
  • Summer grades and hours earned afterward bound evaluation may exist used to meet the scholarship renewal requirements if the yous take a erstwhile restoration opportunity available. You must inquire a financial assist advisor at FSU to submit a summer grades and hours update to the Bright Futures office indicating the adjusted cumulative GPA and hours.
  • If your last status was ineligible for not meeting renewal requirements and you lot did non receive funding during the previous academic year, you will demand to submit a Reinstatement/Restoration Application. If you were initially eligible and enlisted in the war machine or engaged in a total-time religious or service obligation, see "Applying for Reinstatement" in Student Handbook: Chapter iii for specific data.

Repaying Brilliant Futures

  • You lot will exist required to reimburse the Florida Department of Pedagogy for the toll of whatever courses dropped or withdrawn from later drop/add.
  • If not paid dorsum, you will lose your Bright Futures scholarship permanently.
  • After repayment, those hours are returned to your hr's remaining for funding purposes.
  • Due to verifiable affliction or emergency, you may make a written appeal to FSU for hours dropped or withdrawn after the last twenty-four hour period of the driblet/add period.

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