Apply for Financial Aid

1. Need-Based Scholarship: GLA can award up to 30% off the tuition for families with financial hardship. In order to be evaluated for this award amount you must submit a copy of your family's most recent tax return. 
2. Merit Scholarship: GLA can award up to 10% off the tuition for students who have at least a 3.0 GPA or roughly a B-grade average across classes.
3. Grant-Based Scholarship: GLA can offer up to 5% off the tuition for families who don't have financial hardship or prefer not to provide income information. 

• Full-fee scholarships are not awarded 
• Scholarships are only applicable towards programs 14 days or longer 
  
• Scholarships cannot cover the deposit and application fee, or anything other than tuition 
  
• Scholarships cannot cover airfare 
  
• If you change program session, country, or duration, your scholarship award will be reevaluated and may change 
  
• Each program has its own pool of scholarship funds: depending on popularity, some programs or sessions may have more funds available than others.
  

Applications will be processed and scholarships award will be emailed within one week of receipt. Upon receiving your offer, you have one week to accept your scholarship award by applying at www.experiencegla.com/enroll and submitting both the $400 deposit towards program tuition and non-refundable application fee ($95 application fee until April 16 when it goes up to $145) . If you are already enrolled, the award will be applied to your tuition.

Any scholarship award will be applied to your program tuition, and the remaining balance will be due as follows:

• For all participants who enroll as of November 30, final tuition will be due by Dec. 31 
  
• Beginning December 1, final tuition is due 30 days after acceptance into the program 
  
• If your program departure date is closer than 60 days away, your tuition is due 1 week from acceptance