$2500 Scholarship vs. College-Sponsored Scholarship

Wolverine86
Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:26:15 +0000

The large $$ scholarships offered to NMFs by schools like UKy, OU, Bama, UTD, etc. are considered “Unofficial” scholarships and are separate from the “Official” NMF scholarship category. The “Official” scholarships are the one-time $2500 award, corporate scholarships, a few special scholarships, and the smaller “school sponsored” awards. The “Official school sponsored” awards usually consist of something in the $500-$2000/year range.

If you accept the one-time $2500 award, you would not be eligible to receive an “Official school sponsored” award from your first choice school, but any “Unofficial” award would be unaffected.

Example: Our D2 is a sophomore at UKy on the full-ride Patterson Scholarship as an NMF Class of '15. The “Official school sponsored” portion of her scholarship is $500/year. That portion is disbursed to her student account separately from the much larger “Unofficial” portion. Had she been awarded the one-time $2500 scholarship and accepted it, she would not have been eligible to receive the $500/year portion, but would still receive the rest of the Patterson award as normal.

What is the school is question? Do they have a large “Unofficial” scholarship with a smaller “Official” portion, or only a lesser $$ “Official school sponsored” award? If they only offer the smaller award (as many sponsor schools do) you cannot get both the one-time $2500 and the “Official” award.