Scholarship Guidelines

GENERAL TUITION WAIVER GUIDELINES

Your scholarship is awarded as a tuition waiver.

• This award will be automatically applied to your Norman campus tuition expense each semester for fall and spring only. This award cannot be used towards summer tuition.
• This award will be applied after the last day to drop enrollment with a 100% each semester when final enrollment is confirmed.
• This award cannot be used toward fees (i.e. enrollment deposit, facility, health or activity fees, housing, correspondence courses, etc).
• This award cannot be used for tuition and fees for self-paced courses offered through the College of Professional and Continuing Studies.
• A tuition waiver cannot be applied to tuition charges for courses offered through the Sooner Rose Program.
• Institutional scholarships, combined with other federal, state and/or institutional aid, shall not exceed the published Cost of Attendance.
• In the event of early graduation, unused semester funds will be forfeited.
• If the student is enrolled in less than 12 hours during their final semester, the scholarship amount will be pro-rated proportionately with a student's decreased tuition cost. Final semester students must complete a Special Conditions Form to receive their award at less than 12 hours enrollment.

Please note: Students may receive multiple tuition waivers from different academic units through the University of Oklahoma Norman Campus; however, if tuition waivers are stacked, the combined offers may not pay out beyond the cost of tuition. A non-resident tuition waiver may never be applied to the resident portion of tuition - please see the OU Bursar Office tuition and fees webpage for specific costs and breakdowns.

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS

1. Enrollment – Scholarship recipients must enroll as a full time (12+ credits) undergraduate student at OU each fall/spring semester.
   
   • Students enrolled in an Accelerated Degree Program are only eligible to have the total cost of their undergraduate tuition covered by their award. They are not eligible to have the associated graduate tuition covered.
      
2. Grade Point Average - Merit Scholarship recipients awarded during and after fall 2019 must maintain at least a 2.0 overall grade point average (GPA). Students who show academic success through an OU GPA with a 2.0 or higher will also remain eligible. 
   
   
3. Scholarship recipients must earn at least 24 institutional credits each academic year. The credits can be earned across fall, spring, and summer terms.

GPAs are checked at the end of spring semester first year then each academic year thereafter. 

Please note: Your Merit Scholarship cannot be used for tuition and fees through the OU Law School, Graduate College, OU Health Sciences Center graduate studies, OU-Tulsa campus, or at any other institution. Also, a student cannot receive more than one Merit-Based Scholarship.

PROBATION GUIDELINES

1. If a recipient does not meet the required overall or OU GPA requirement, the student will be placed on probation for one academic year. Students will continue to receive funding only during the first semester of the probationary period. Students will have one full calendar year to achieve the required overall or OU GPA. If the overall or OU GPA is not earned by the end of the probationary year, the award will be discontinued.
   
   
2. If a student’s GPA increases to the minimum requirement or above during the probationary year, the scholarship will be reinstated. Upon reinstatement, the duration of the scholarship will be reduced by the number of semesters spent on probation. The student will not have the opportunity to recoup the lost unpaid semester while on probation.
   
   
3. Students who fail to earn the minimum 24 institutional credits each academic year must complete 12 hours in a single semester during the probationary year to have their scholarship reinstated. Upon reinstatement, the duration of the scholarship will be reduced by the number of semesters spent on probation. The student will not have the opportunity to recoup the lost unpaid semester while on probation.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

Merit Scholarship recipients may be granted exceptions to the enrollment requirements listed above on a case-by-case basis. Students may complete the form for standard leave of absence. If a Merit Scholarship recipient cannot enroll in the full-time required hours for any reason, the student must complete this special conditions form (this is not for incoming/current freshmen).  Students attending another university while on a leave of absence are no longer eligible to receive their scholarship. Some examples (but not all possible examples) are listed below to assist in determining if a special conditions form is needed.