<p>Does Anyone Know Of Any College Scholarships For Anything More Than Tuition And Books (like Health Insurance)?</p>
<p>Usually there is no such thing!</p>
<p>All scholarships must be delcared to the university you will be attending. The university then deducts that money from your tuition/room-board expenses. Even if you get more scholarship money than needed, the university takes the extra to compensate itself. No college will just give you the money willy-nilly to spend as you see fit. It is not fair to kids who actually need the money to attend college.</p>
<p>Michigan will refund you anything over what you paid them. So if you were to get enough to cover anything over your costs to the school, they mail you a check.</p>
<p>Yes, they will refund money payed to the college by the student, but they won’t give a student cash for extraneous scholarship money.</p>
<p>UF does exactly what you’re describing, runmattrun. If outside scholarship money goes over what you owe them, they mail you a check.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that all scholarship monies over the cost of tuition and fees are considered taxable income to the student and may change your EFC for the next year.</p>
<p>What the OP should find out is how his/her school handles outside scholarships. </p>
<p>While some have stated that their school gives money back to the school, this is usually not the norm as most schools use outside scholarships to first reduce the student’s self help aid (work study / student loans) . Once the self help is absorbed, then the scholarship money is used to reduce the grant/scholarship monies that the school has given.</p>
<p>“While some have stated that their school gives money back to the school, this is usually not the norm as most schools use outside scholarships to first reduce the student’s self help aid (work study / student loans) . Once the self help is absorbed, then the scholarship money is used to reduce the grant/scholarship monies that the school has given.”</p>
<p>You said it much better than I did! :)</p>