Outside Scholarship exceeded self-help

GodisLove2016
Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:57:02 +0000

Yes, I just talked to the FA officer, they would increase the self-help portion, which would increase the COA, so the overage of the outside scholarship wont’ reduce the college aid. Let say, if the original self help is $6000, if the lab top costs $1800, they would probably increase the the self help amount to about $8000 to make the overage scholarship be useful. But is there any con other than this benefit if the COA increased? I am still a little confused with the COA, becuase they put the books, travel fee and personal expenses into the coa calculations. Let say if my son received $7000 outside scholarship, then he needs to borrow or work to get that $1k gap? will the school bill us the difference? Please advise. thank you.