<p>Please ask to speak to a supervisor. At the window, they told me the similar thing: The scholarship is not guaranteed depends on the economic situation and all that.
When you call again please ask this question to the FA supervisor: “If my EFC goes up, what portion of my aid will be affected, the loans, the work studies, the scholarships? Or they get proportionally reduced?” I asked that specific question. No probably, no maybe, etc. Now should you go back and read my previous post, you will see that they told me the loans go away, followed by the WS, then the scholarship. With your future EFC=$42K+$16K scholarship =$58K. That is just right for the total cost. So yeah, I am confident your D will be fine.
Please ask that specific question (which goes away first)!!! I hope you feel less depressed after the call.</p>