<p>My understanding is that your child can take:</p>
<p>1). any merit (non-need based) money offered by the school on the same terms it is offered to any other student, such as presidential scholar, math department grant, music talent scholarship, award for completing FAFSA by a certain deadline, etc. The student can also take all federal or state need based aid - Pell grant, SEOG, Perkins loan, Stafford loans, state need based grants or awards scholarships.</p>
<p>and EITHER 2 or 3, not both:</p>
<p>2). Athletic award or 3). School need based award.</p>
<p>Outside scholarships only count as athletic awards if they are entirely based on the athletic performance of the athlete. A student can take an Elks Club award or the Mayor’s Student government award without the coach having to count the award against the team maximum. If the award if from the newspaper for being Miss Basketball, then you need to let the coach know and that amount MAY be considered as part of the team max for scholarships.</p>
<p>It seems that your daughter should be able to take both the school merit/academic and athletic scholarships. She should be able to take an ROTC scholarship too. Time for both a sport and ROTC may be an issue, but that’s up to you.</p>
<p>My daughter took a 1) school merit scholarship, 2)a grant for visiting the school before applying and for knowing an alum (both offered to any student in the school), 3) an athletic scholarship, a state grant for attending a private school, 4) a state award for high school performance (Florida Bright Futures), 5) and a private scholarship from a civic organization. She got no need based financial aid from the school or federal/state.</p>
<p>Are you sure your military status doesn’t give her instate status anywhere? Often the one year residency is waived if you are stationed in that state, or you can have it in your home state even if you are living elsewhere. Check.</p>