The Global Wildcat Tuition Awards are open to incoming international first-year and transfer students who exhibit outstanding academic performance. Students selected for this scholarship will receive an email. Offers are non-negotiable and are not increased to match offers from other institutions. The award must be used in the semester for which it was first offered. The scholarship is awarded based on GPA. There are two scholarships offered to first-year students: the First-Year Global Wildcat Award and the Gatos MX Discount. The First-Year Global Wildcat Award is a merit-based scholarship for first-year students, while the Gatos MX Discount is a partial tuition discount offered to first-year Mexican students from the states of Baja California, Chihuahua, Sinaloa, and Sonora. There is also a scholarship offered to incoming transfer students, the Transfer Global Wildcat Award. Transfer students are defined as students who have earned 12 or more transferable units taken at a non-U.S. college or university or a U.S. junior or community college. Please visit the scholarship's website for more information.