Andrews University has invested millions of dollars during the past four years, through the Andrews Partnership Scholarship (APS) program, to help undergraduate students achieve their dream of receiving a quality education at a Christian university. Beginning in Fall 2006, Andrews is helping to make those dreams even more affordable. With the new and improved APS, new students will now have the opportunity to receive up to $32,000 ($8,000 a year) in scholarship money, an increase of $1,000–$2,000 a year.
Previously, incoming freshmen have received between a total of $4,000 and $24,000 ($1,000–$6,000 a year) in scholarships, based on a combination of their GPA and ACT or SAT scores. Now freshmen can expect to receive between $8,000 and $32,000 ($2,000–$8,000 a year). Transfer students, who previously could expect to receive between $1,500 and $4,000 annually, based on their transfer GPA, can look forward to receiving between $2,500 and $6,000 annually.
For example, under the expanded APS program, a freshman with a 3.0 GPA and an 18 composite ACT score receives $16,000 ($4,000 a year); and a freshman with a 3.75 GPA and 28 composite ACT score receives $32,000 ($8,000) a year. A transfer student with a transfer GPA between 2.5 and 2.99 receives $2,500 a year; between 3.0 and 3.49 will get them $4,000 a year; a GPA over 3.5 guarantees them $6,000 a year.
“The Andrews Partnership Scholarship is an exciting and significant investment in our students as they make an investment in a Christian university education that will help them fulfill God’s calling for their lives as they fulfill their career and life goals,” said Stephen Payne, enrollment management vice president. “As the program expands next school year, it can bring significantly more money to nearly every single one of our new undergraduate students.”
Beverly Stout, University Relations news writer
