<p>Contact the dept you are admitted to and ask when they release awards. My D received the university achievement award on 3/7 by mail. She is an RD admit. Then the e-mail financial aid notification came and the FA letter includes the achievement award. But her dept(music) doesn’t release any of their merit awards until 4/1, they told me. You need to find out when your dept. sends out their awards for EA/RD and then what happens to the portion of dept money declined when kids go elsewhere. Will it be redirected to other students, in which case you might still get an award in May or later? You can also call the university financial aid office to ask if all the general scholarship money has been awarded, and same question there- what happens to money that is declined?</p>