49-4-908 - Requirements for home schooled students, GED recipients or graduates of ineligible high schools.
49-4-908. Requirements for home schooled students, GED recipients or graduates of ineligible high schools.
To be eligible for a Tennessee HOPE scholarship as an entering freshman, a student who completes high school in a Tennessee home school program after December 1, 2003, who obtains a GED after December 1, 2003, or who graduates from a high school located in Tennessee that is not an eligible high school after December 1, 2003, shall:
(1) Meet the requirements of §§ 49-4-904 and 49-4-905;
(2) (A) Attain a composite ACT score of at least 21 on any single ACT test date or a combined SAT score of at least 980 on any single SAT test date, if the student completed high school in a Tennessee home school program or graduated from a high school located in Tennessee that is not an eligible high school; or
(B) Pass the GED tests with an average score of at least 525 and attain a composite ACT score of at least 21 on any single ACT test date or a combined SAT score of at least 980 on any single SAT test date, if the student obtained a GED; and
(3) Be admitted to and enroll in an eligible postsecondary institution no later than sixteen (16) months after completing high school in a Tennessee home school program, obtaining a GED or graduating from high school.
[Acts 2003, ch. 298, § 1; 2004, ch. 840, §§ 8, 9, 10, 11b; 2005, ch. 481, §§ 7, 8.]