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Michigan Promise Scholarship

Information About State Merit Aid

Michigan Promise Scholarship (replaces the Michigan Merit Award or MEAP award)

Michigan high school students who graduate starting in 2007 and score well on their high school assessments will receive $1,000 for their first year in college and $1,000 for their second year. Upon successfully completing their first two years of college, they will be awarded the remaining $2,000 from the State.

Information about Michigan Promise Scholarship

An additional feature of the Michigan Promise Scholarship is the ability for students who don't initially qualify for the program to earn the entire $4,000 through successful completion of two years of post-secondary education with a 2.5 GPA. Please use the application below to apply.

Application for final payment

 

Michigan Promise Eligibility Chart

 

Alma College received a $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation in August 2009 for research that could eventually lead to the development of more effective drugs to treat and prevent certain kinds of influenza, including human infections of swine and avian flu. "This project provides an opportunity for students to get involved in important laboratory research," says faculty member Jeff Turk, principal investigator.

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Student Profile

Brett Seymoure

Brett Seymoure
Graduation: 2009
Major: Biology
From: Paw Paw, Michigan
Interests: Sports, Politics

Alma’s close faculty-student interaction provides numerous benefits such as the ability to do undergraduate research on a graduate level. Alma’s professors treat students more as peers welcoming student input and collaboration on faculty projects. When students are involved in research, faculty aggressively pursue publication of findings including students as co-authors.

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