By Jerome Soldo
“The University of Kentucky can’t afford to continue giving scholarships to our state’s best students,” I tweeted in response to the University of Kentucky’s recent announcement of bumping ACT score requirements from 28 to 31 for graduates of the Governor’s Scholars Program hoping to receive scholarship assistance. In the past, a score of 28 guaranteed program alumni a full-tuition scholarship, which amounts to roughly $40,000 over four years.
Now, UK demands an ACT score of 31 for its full-tuition grantees. In other words, the administration has deemed that a student must rank in the nation’s 97th percentile to deserve funding.