Question about outside scholarships

mom2collegekids
Fri, 24 Apr 2015 03:24:04 +0000

You need to find out what the college will do. there are some schools that are sticklers about merit, and they will reduce their own award if merit exceeds a certain amount.

I’ve seen schools that will only allow merit up to tuition (not COA). In those cases, if they award full tuition, and then there is outside merit, they will reduce their award so that the total merit is at tuition.

Some do this so that they can “spread awards” around to more students.