Scholarship recipients beware!

I’m in a similar situation for Georgetown, and what I’ve found to be useful is to aggressively go after scholarships that issue checks paid out to me or my family, not the school. If the scholarship check is addressed to Georgetown University, I have to report it to financial aid and they adjust my aid package. If it’s addressed to me, though, there’s no need for me to report it to them and I can then use it for college expenses as needed. Unfortunately, almost all of the scholarships I’ve found that are addressed to the individual and not the university have been small, local scholarships. Still, you take what you can get.