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Eh by KeoughCharles05
Scholarships are one-year renewable contracts. I think that's a terrible and exploitative system, but that's what the agreement is.
To the normative or moral question of honoring a fair agreement, I don't think that agreement should be measured by the entirely arbitrary timeframe of a period of years, but instead based on the purpose of attending the University. The purpose of attending ND is to obtain a degree, not to attend classes for four years. ND does better by a student who graduates in three or three and a half years than it does by a student who takes classes for four, but does not graduate.