Outside Scholarships along with a full ride, stackable?

mom2collegekids
Mon, 07 Mar 2016 05:10:52 +0000

Full ride scholarships rarely cover transportation or personal expenses, so outside awards might cover those costs.

Some schools (often privates) will sometimes note in their scholarship pages that merit cannot exceed a certain amount, so outside merit reduces their merit. For instance, they may say that total merit cannot exceed tuition. So if the student got a full tuition award, and then also got a $5k award, then the tuition award would be reduced $5k. The schools that do that are just trying to be able to offer as many students some help as they can.