My oldest son was offered a scholarship to new mexico state in Las Cruces. they offered books and in-state tuition. If my son had chosen to go there, and if he had had a 3.0 of better GPM coming out of the Community College that he was attending, the tuition would have been paid. Since his GPA was slightly below 3.0, all out of state tuition charges applied and he would have had to pay the difference between the two.
That is the only experience that I have had with
scholarships, and at the time the college explained that they supplemented athletic benefits with academic ones whenever the student had sufficient GPA to warrant it. Hard for me to say whether or not that is a universal practice, but they were doing that in N.M.