Each and every year, large universities make changes to their institutional or automatic scholarship offerings. As incoming students and parents, we need to make decisions based on all the information relevant to our situation at that point in time, rather than live in the past or try to predict the future. For you, @beverlysanford I assume Alabama was the right answer at the time. If so, that should not have changed, as the terms that you agreed to have not changed.
Last year, the University of Oklahoma was one that made a significant change to their National Merit scholarship offering. My son was quite interested in it as an option, we visited the campus, and based on prior years’ packages it seemed like a great potential match. But when the scholarships were adjusted, it was removed from consideration as it was not the right selection at the time. If they return the scholarships next year to prior levels, it does not impact the decision we made. Likewise, if Alabama improves the scholarship that my son has for incoming Freshman next year … it does not impact the decision we made.
Roll Tide!