Gordonsville High School

Everyone that applied for TN Promise should have received the following email. Please make sure you checking your email regularly and completing any tasks needed to stay eligible! Our MANDATORY TN Promise meeting is 1/24/23 at 1PM in the GHS cafeteria.

Welcome to tnAchieves!Congratulations! You successfully submitted the Class of 2023 TN Promise scholarship application! We are so excited to be a part of your college journey. While you will hear from us about critical deadlines, we also want to serve as a support system to you as you make the leap from high school student to college graduate!

We will begin communicating with you on a weekly basis starting early November 2022. Our communication will ensure that you are on track with your scholarship requirements and college enrollment; however, this email will provide you with an overview of your TN Promise scholarship requirements. Please read this email carefully and keep it as a reference!What is TN Promise?TN Promise is a last-dollar scholarship that funds tuition and mandatory fees for up to five semesters at a community college or eligible four-year institution, or eight trimesters at a Tennessee College of Applied Technology (TCAT). To view the TN Promise eligible institutions, click here! TN Promise is the funding while tnAchieves serves as the partnering organization for your high school. This means that in order to receive the TN Promise scholarship at an eligible institution, you will be required to complete your scholarship requirements through tnAchieves.

As a TN Promise scholarship applicant, you are required to complete all TN Promise requirements in order to maintain your scholarship eligibility. Failure to meet all requirements and deadlines will result in the permanent loss of your TN Promise funding. Once a student becomes ineligible for TN Promise, eligibility cannot be regained at a later date! Please see below for a list of upcoming scholarship requirements; you can use this email as a checklist!TN Promise Scholarship Requirements
2023-2024 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA): The FAFSA is the primary financial aid application for students to apply for various types of state and federal aid. Students can begin completing the 2023-2024 FAFSA online beginning October 1, 2022 at StudentAid.gov. The deadline for students to complete the 2023-2024 FAFSA is March 1, 2023 in order to remain eligible for TN Promise. Please see below for important information regarding this requirement!
The application must be completed at StudentAid.gov; do not use any other websites for completion.
Be sure you are selecting the 2023-2024 FAFSA. Completing the incorrect year’s FAFSA, even by the March 1, 2023 deadline, will result in the permanent loss of your TN Promise eligibility.
The application requires you and your parent/guardian to create an FSA ID. Creating your FSA ID is not the same as completing the FAFSA. It will act as your login information as well as your electronic signature prior to submitting the application. You and your parent will need to use two separate emails to create your FSA ID. You can click here to create your ID!
You and your parent/guardian will also need your 2021 tax information to complete the FAFSA.
After successfully completing the FAFSA, you will receive a confirmation email to the email address you provided on the application. Save this email for your records!
2023 Mandatory TN Promise Meeting: In order to remain eligible for TN Promise, you will be required to attend your assigned, in-person mandatory TN Promise meeting. Your meeting has been assigned based on the high school you attend. This meeting will provide you with an overview of your TN Promise scholarship requirements and you will have an opportunity to meet with your volunteer mentor. Please click here to view your mandatory TN Promise meeting date, time and location! We will send you frequent meeting reminders as your meeting date gets closer so please make it a habit to check your email frequently.
Failure to attend your assigned, in-person mandatory TN Promise meeting will result in the loss of your TN Promise scholarship eligibility. If you have a conflict with your assigned mandatory meeting date and/or time, we have a student excuse form available for you to complete by clicking here! Before submitting an excuse form, please review our excuse form policy.  Our excuse form policy will outline all excusable absences and the excuse form process. It is important that you make arrangements to attend your assigned mandatory meeting!
Volunteer Mentor: Every student that completes the 2023 TN Promise application will be paired with a tnAchieves volunteer mentor. Your tnAchieves mentor is someone from your community who has volunteered their time to ensure your transition from high school to college is as smooth as possible – they are an extra layer of support for you! You will get the chance to meet face-to-face with your volunteer mentor at your mandatory TN Promise meeting. It is important that you are responsive and kind to your mentor as they are here to help!
tnAchieves CONNECT: tnAchieves CONNECT is a communication platform that will allow you to easily communicate with your volunteer mentor and it also houses many important resources that will be helpful as you work toward your college degree or credential. Please see below for step-by-step instructions to activate your account!
Click here to activate your tnAchieves CONNECT account!
To begin the activation process, create a password! Be sure to write down your password and keep it somewhere safe so you can always access your account.
Next, you will be asked to provide additional details about yourself as well as opt-in to text notifications. After opting in, you will be directed to the home page, which means you have successfully activated your CONNECT account!
Community Service: In order to maintain your TN Promise eligibility, you will be required to submit 8 hours of community service prior to each term that you plan to enroll with TN Promise. Your first community service deadline will be July 5, 2023 for the fall 2023 term; however, as mentioned, this is an ongoing requirement for your scholarship. You can begin working on your community service hours November 2, 2022 for the July 5, 2023 deadline. We offer many options for you to complete your community service hours, including job shadowing, virtual community service webinars and volunteering in your community. Once you have completed your hours, they must be submitted at tnAchieves.org on our online community service form in order to receive credit. Please click here for all of the information you need on completing and submitting your community service hours!
Please note, you can only complete a maximum of four hours of community service using virtual community service webinars on the tnAchieves website for each deadline. All other hours must be completed with an external organization. For example, you may view 4 virtual community service webinars on our website and volunteer at your local animal shelter taking care of animals for the remaining 4 hours. Or, you can spend 6 hours volunteering with Habitat for Humanity to build a house and view 2 virtual community service webinars to bring your total hours to 8.
Beginning in early November you will receive an email from tnAchieves every Monday.  Additionally, we will mail a copy of the Class of 2023 student handbook to the home address you provided on your TN Promise application. The online version of the handbook can be accessed on our website by clicking here! Please take the time to familiarize yourself with the information in the handbook. It contains all information needed to ensure that you remain eligible for TN Promise.

It is important that you check your email several times a week! You could miss important information vital to your scholarship eligibility. Please let tnAchieves know ASAP if your phone number or email address changes. We only know updates if YOU tell us!

We are so excited to begin working with you! You can reach us any time by simply responding to our weekly emails.