Scholarship recipients beware!

[ucbalumnus]

https://bulletin.georgetown.edu/expenses/StudentFinancialServices describes Georgetown’s policy.

@Georgetown University

Students who receive need-based financial aid from Georgetown and also receive outside-sponsored scholarships or tuition benefits may use their external awards to reduce or eliminate the GU adjustments to their expected family contribution (when the expected GU family contribution is higher than the expected Federal family contribution), and/or to reduce or eliminate their Federal Work-Study employment, and/or to reduce or eliminate their student loan, before any adjustment is made in their Georgetown Scholarship award.

Georgetown may be a bit more generous than many other colleges, since it allows the difference between their EFC and the federal EFC (as well as student loans and work study like many other colleges) to be offset by an outside scholarship, before reducing its own financial aid.

@Sotaminnie

I pointed out the following quote from their website: “Your outside scholarships will be used to reduce first your family financial responsibility, if applicable, then your student loans or federal work study before any adjustment is made to your Georgetown scholarship.”

If this is actually somewhere on their web site, it obviously does not match what is in their bulletin. It is understandable why you feel like you were deceived.