Eligibility Requirements
To be eligible for Rockford Promise at NIU, you must:
- Live inside the City limits of the City of Rockford by the first day of freshman year in high school.*
- Attend RPS all four years of high school and earn a cumulative 3.0 grade point average (GPA).
- Apply for Fall 2021 admission to NIU and file a FAFSA or the Alternative Application for Illinois Financial Aid by the priority deadline of Feb. 1, 2021.
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*If you are currently enrolled in an RPS high school as freshman, sophomore, junior or senior, and live in the City of Rockford as of November 10, 2020, and earn a cumulative 3.0 GPA, you are eligible for the program without the four-year residency requirement.