History of the Michigan Promise Scholarship
As you’re probably aware, the Michigan Promise Scholarship was once called the Michigan Merit Scholarship. What most people don’t know is how and why the transition took place, and that a group of students from Central Michigan University (many of them Merit scholarship recipients) played an integral part.
While conducting a class exercise, the students split up into a mock state legislature and house of representatives to attempt to pass a bill that would improve the scholarship. Michigan legislatures caught wind of the class project and invited the students to present some of their ideas before the committee that was working on exactly that same issue at the time. The students did so, and many of their ideas were integrated into the existing framework that the committee had created for the Michigan Promise Scholarship.
As part of this change, the award amount was increased from $2500 to $4000. And as I’m sure everyone is also aware, there are still ties between the Michigan Promise Scholarship and the Michigan Lottery. So, interestingly enough, students who were furthering their education via the vehicle of the Merit scholarship used that education to change the award for the better.
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I took the merit test and i recieved a certificate noting that i was eligible for the scholarship money and i would like to know what i have to do to recieve the money because i’m enrolled at Washtenaw Community College for the fall starting september 2 2008.