is not an easy process. there are a lot of steps that students have to get to go from point a to point b and coming into a huge comprehensive four-year public university it may not be clear to students what exactly they need to do to get through. so, a program that i looked at in west virginia that actually has seen some success is one of the ones that people are talking about. as a possible model for how to improve graduation rates. what are they doing in west virginia that s different? so, west virginia has a major state merit-based scholarship program called the prana scholarship which provides academically qualified high school graduates with up to four years of free tuition and fees, but there s a catch to that. it s not sort of free money, what students have to do to renew the scholarship every year is maintain both a minimum gpa as well as complete a minimum number of cofferses each year, and what i found surprising to