Lansing Promise Acceptance Form

Lansing Promise Zone
Complete this form to officially accept the Lansing Promise Scholarship and tell us which college or program you will be attending so we can send your scholarship funds directly to their financial aid office.
Please note that you must be accepted at Lansing Community College, Michigan State University, The University of Olivet, Davenport University or Douglas J Aveda Institute and have your college student ID number in order to complete this form.

This Acceptance Form must be completed by July 1st to begin taking classes in the fall semester.  If you plan to start taking classes the spring semester, the deadline is December 15th.

You only need to submit the acceptance form once.  If you have any questions or need to make changes after submitting the Acceptance Form please contact the Lansing Promise Scholarship Director at: info@lansingpromise.org
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Information about You
College Information
College information is required in order process and send your scholarship funds to the right college/program.
Important Scholarship Information
What is the Lansing Promise Scholarship?
The Lansing Promise Scholarship is a last dollar scholarship. The purpose of the last dollar scholarship is to pay for eligible tuition and fees that are not covered by other state and federal scholarships and/or grants that are awarded through the FAFSA process.

Because the Lansing Promise Scholarship is a last dollar scholarship you will only see Lansing Promise Scholarship funding on your student account if there are tuition and fees remaining on your account after all other awarded state/federal scholarships and grants are applied.

Where and when can I use the Lansing Promise Scholarship?
You have to apply and be accepted to use the Lansing Promise Scholarship at one of the five Lansing Promise post-secondary partner schools: Lansing Community College, Michigan State University, The University of Olivet, Davenport University or Douglas J Aveda Institute. At LCC and Douglas J, Lansing Promise provides last dollar scholarship assistance for up to $10,000 to be used for tuition, books, and course fees within 6 years of graduating high school. At MSU, Olivet, or Davenport the Lansing Promise Scholarship will assist with last dollar tuition assistance of $20,000. This will be divided equally over eight semesters at $2,500 per semester. You must start college within two years of graduation and you have a total of six years (once you start) to use all the Lansing Promise Scholarship funds.
Your Lansing Promise Scholarship funding will be designated ONLY to the college indicated in section 3 above. Your Lansing Promise Scholarship will NOT automatically transfer to any of the other Promise partner colleges without prior approval from the Lansing Promise. You must contact Lansing Promise at info@lansingpromise.org if your college information changes. Do not submit another acceptance form to update designated school information.
How do I continue receiving the Lansing Promise Scholarship after the first year? In order to remain eligible to receive Lansing Promise Scholarship funding each year, you are required to complete the FAFSA application and verification process by July 1st.
Additional Information
This section is optional but very helpful for the Lansing Promise staff, board, and donors to know.
FAFSA Requirement
Authorization of Release of Educational Information to Lansing Promise
I hereby authorize any school that I am enrolled in that participates in the Lansing Promise Scholarship, through its agents and employees, to release any of my financial aid, attendance, demographic and/or academic record information, in whole or in part, to the Lansing Promise Executive Director, or his/her designee, to facilitate the analysis of my scholarship eligibility and the subsequent educational and economic impact of this scholarship.

As a recipient of a Lansing Promise scholarship, that award information becomes part of my educational record. By consenting to receive any scholarship amount awarded to me, I agree to allow the release of this information in my educational record to third parties specified under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). FERPA affords certain rights to students concerning the privacy of, and access to, their education records. While this form authorizes my school, in conjunction with the Lansing Promise, to release educational records to third parties, it does not obligate either entity to do so. My school reserves the right to review and respond to requests for release of my educational record on a case-by-case basis. For additional information, I can visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at: www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html.

The Lansing Promise Scholarship can have several positive impacts on postsecondary enrollment, persistence, degree attainment and overall success in college. To understand these impacts, I authorize my postsecondary academic record information, in whole or in part, to be released back to the Lansing Promise Director, or his/her designee, in adherence to FERPA for analysis to inform and improve the Lansing Promise Scholarship program.

I also authorize the Lansing Promise to use information regarding my scholarship in promotion of the Lansing Promise Scholarship.

This release is authorized starting on the date of the signature on this agreement and after scholarship receipt for statistical purposes. To rescind this Authorization, I understand that I must submit written notification of rescission to my school. I will also notify the Lansing Promise in writing of my decision to rescind my authorization. This rescission would result in the termination of my receipt of the scholarship.

My electronic signature (or that of my parent/guardian if I am under the age of 18) below indicates that I have read this Authorization to Release Educational Records form and that I authorize the release of educational records as described above.

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