@sybbie719 That’s sort of a tricky one. Had to break out my spreadsheet.
The AXA Achievement Community Scholarship, Brad Feld Aspirations in Computing Scholarship, Harry E. Arcamuzi Aviation Scholarship, National Space Club Keynote Finalist Scholarship, Lint Center Scholarship, GoEnnounce “Define Yourself” Scholarship, and VIP Women in Tech Scholarship are one-time. This is a total of $7500.
The Burger King WHOPPER Scholarship, Coca-Cola Scholars Scholarship, Elks Most Valuable Student Competition Scholarship, GE-Reagan Scholarship, Jack Kent Cooke College Scholarship, and SanDisk Scholarship are all renewable. The Jack Kent Cooke College Scholarship is “last dollar”, though, so they give me access to up to $40k per year as needed (and up to $50k per year as needed for grad school as long as I do well in undergrad).
Not counting the JKCF in the figure, the total is 124,000. Per year is 31,000 (and freshman is 31000 + 7500 overall). Even if my school took away all of their own funding (they did not), JKCF would’ve chipped in that last ~20k (less for freshman year) up to my COA (51,030) per the last dollar nature of the scholarship.
With that said, I was able to defer the Coke Scholarship and the GE-Reagan Scholarship, so I currently have at least $15k for grad school. I plan to defer all four years (but this has to be done every year).
My school more or less stacked all of them. I did lose my grant (which was small to begin with), but I’m not sure where in the process that happened – a lot of scholarship notifications came in around the same time, so I went from “not overfunded” to “really overfunded” pretty quickly. Can’t really disagree with the school for pulling the grant; they had actually already met our need and then some with their merit offer, so to give us a grant on top of it was pretty generous (we had a subsidized loan offer, too, and a partial direct unsubsidized loan).
My school did eventually reduce their merit aid to fit everything below the COA, but I have it in writing that if I would ever need that money again, they’ll give me the originally awarded amount. That said, the only situation in which I’d lose my outside scholarships is if my GPA dropped substantially (or I committed a crime or something), in which case I’d also not be eligible for merit aid. So, anyway, barring stupidity on my part, everything’s covered.
The tax situation is a mess. Only $5k or so of that $51,030 should be taxable, but I’m going to see a CPA anyway because my tax situation in general is a mess (work situation is complicated, family situation is complicated…)