Havre students offered honors scholarships

Special to the Daily News

The Montana University System announced it has offered 2015 Havre High School graduates Jacie Meldrum, Hannah Pepprock and Lieza Reighard honors scholarships worth an average of $16,000 each.

The MUS Honor Scholarship is a renewable scholarship offered by the Montana Board of Regents that waives undergraduate tuition for up to eight semesters at any campus of the Montana University System or Dawson, Flathead Valley, or Miles community colleges.

Students offered this scholarship must be graduates of an accredited Montana high school with a minimum grade point average of 3.4 at the end of their seventh semester in high school, take either the ACT or SAT standardized test, meet college preparatory requirements and attend an eligible campus.

In 2007, the Board of Regents authorized a statewide high school competition based on a GPA ranking score combined with an ACT composite score creating a total MUS Honor Scholarship composite score from which students offered the scholarship were selected.

This year, 239 scholarships were offered statewide, including the three awarded to Meldrum, Pepprock and Reighard.