Do people realize that chasing big merit means applying to less selective schools?

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@tsbna44

I might be wrong so someone correct me but I believe we only got the covid relief payments from the school if you did a FAFSA. They were unexpected but both my kids schools sent.

This was school dependent. A school I am familiar with automatically provided Covid relief payments to students who had submitted FAFSA, but made it known that non-FAFSA filers could also receive the payments by way of a simple online application.