Hope Wanes for Georgia's Merit-Based Scholarships.

Focuses on the efforts to solve the deficit facing the HOPE Scholarship, the merit-scholarship program of Georgia as of November 2003. Implication of the decision of the legislators to make modifications in the program that added thousands of students to the scholarship rolls; Discussion on the plan to add a minimum scholastic aptitude test requirement to the B-average standard of the program; Significance of the scholarship program.