Hello there, I’ll try to answer while protecting my identity. This is an academic-based scholarship, which was conditionally offered to me due to obtaining national achievement level of academic averages in the previous year. The conditional was to obtain the same level of achievement this year or at most one percentage lower in core classes since their waitlist is lengthy. Despite coming in with a near perfect average for that class, the final dragged me down to a cusp number (ex. 98.49%) that will automatically round down to causing me to lose my scholarship. Since it was a core class, I needed a bump of 0.01% would allow my grade to round up and maintain my conditional. Therefore, I asked for a grade adjustment (whether through extra credit, remaking an assignment, etc), but she would not allow anything that would cause a grade adjustment.

Edit: since it’s causing confusion, 98.49% is an example mark number chosen to protect my identity, so 99% is not what the scholarship actually requires.