I’m finding myself on CC for the first time in months and thought I might come back and report on how this particular quandary played out. Whether or not this seems ethical or fair, we ended up striking a different deal with D20, but only after she committed to her school with a 30K per year merit package. She is taking a Gap Year this year, and we wanted her to have some budget for that. We told her that we would transfer one year’s worth of the merit award to her account in two halves: The first in August 2020 for the gap year, plus she could use leftover funds to reduce her on-campus work hours when she gets to campus in Fall 2021, and the second half in June 2023 (end of sophomore year) – to be used for study abroad or other summer adventures, during Junior and Senior year, and/or save for grad school or “launch.” So, bottom line: We split the merit award 75%/25% with her. The end.
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