Stevens Point Journal - Students on scholarship still struggle: " Ivrekia Stanley thought her prospects were bright when she graduated from Forest Park High School in suburban Atlanta in 1999. Her 3.6 grade-point average earned her a Hope Scholarship and a ticket to college. But when she entered Georgia Perimeter College, a two-year community college, she had to take remedial classes in reading and math.

'You get very discouraged. You don't want to tell anybody you're in these classes,' Stanley recalled. She said she kept telling herself, 'I have a Hope Scholarship. I'm smarter than this.'
But she said the classes taught her some lessons she hadn't learned in high school, like stopping to look up unfamiliar words in the dictionary and quickly determining the main point of a written passage.

This fall, the 22-year-old transferred to Georgia State, where she majors in criminal justice. She has a 3.8 grade-point average and has retained the Hope Scholarship.

But about 40 percent of Hope Scholars who entered Georgia schools as freshmen in fall 2000 failed to maintain the minimum 3.0 GPA in their first 30 credit hours of college work and lost the scholarships.
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