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Packaging Order

Packaging Order

  • The student's Michigan Achievement Awards must fit within their COA each semester. For the calculation of the Michigan Achievement Scholarship Minimum Award, a student’s individual COA can be considered.

    Michigan Achievement Scholarship Last-dollar Award must be applied towards tuition, contact hours, mandatory fees, and other costs up to the student’s cost of attendance.

    All parts of the Michigan Achievement Scholarship must remain within the student's individual COA.


  • Yes, an institution can perform a recalculation of the Last-dollar award if other gift aid has been adjusted.
  • No, please refer to the Michigan Achievement Scholarship Packaging Guidance to review the order of packaging for students with multiple awards.
     
    Also, it is the intent of the legislature that an eligible institution will not make reductive changes to scholarship or financial aid programs offered by that eligible institution that have the goal or net effect of shifting the cost burden of those programs to the program described in this section.

  • The Community College Guarantee Last-dollar Award will only cover costs up to the In-district Tuition, Contact Hours, and Mandatory Fees.

    The Michigan Achievement Bonus and Michigan Achievement Scholarship at 4-Year Institutions may cover expenses included within the student's Cost of Attendance.

  • The Michigan Achievement Bonus is an award that can be applied towards the student's Cost of Attendance and may go towards the charges applied to the student's institutional account.

  • If Promise Zones are restricted to tuition and fees, the Promise Zone must be applied before the Community College Guarantee Last-dollar Award.

    If Promise Zones are not restricted to tuition and fees, the Community College Guarantee Last-dollar Award may be applied before non-restricted aid; however, the combined awards may not exceed the student’s COA.

  • Michigan Achievement Scholarship Community College Guarantee must be applied towards a student’s actual tuition, contact hours and mandatory fees at the in-district rate.
  • The minimum payment amount is $0.01.
  • The Michigan Achievement Scholarship Minimum and Last-Dollar Awards and the Michigan Achievement Bonus award may be refunded to students.
  • All State financial aid must fit within the student's individual Cost of Attendance, a reduction may be necessary after the order of packaging has been followed.