Ten years ago, the state best known for its peaches launched a revolution that still reverberates in the halls of colleges and universities across the country. Faced with a plethora of poorly performing high-school students and a growing number of graduates fleeing the state for postsecondary study, Georgia unveiled its Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally (HOPE) scholarship plan. The ambitious grant program now pays for qualifying students' books, fees and entire tuition, regardless of the students' finances, at the in-state public college of their choice, and chips in thousands of dollars toward private-college tuition bills. This document discusses the pro's and con's of the HOPE scholarship plan.