<p>Is there is general rule of thumb about when a college would offer a scholarship which was declined by one student to another student? </p>
<p>I know that money is offered to students who ultimately choose another school, so do schools offer those declined funds on a rolling basis as they are declined, or will they wait until after the end of the acceptance period to reaward them or ?? I would assume that all offers are not necessarily reawarded, but some schools have a specific number of special scholarships, such as LSU's alumni top 100, which I would think would all be distributed each year.</p>
<p>The q came up last spring, and some people checked directly with various colleges. What they found out is that when colleges award scholarships, they assume that some students will turn them down. Those colleges are not awarded to other students.</p>
<p>At the college where I used to teach, if there was extra scholarship $ left in by the summer, it was awarded to upperclassmembers who had emergency financial aid problems.</p>
<p>That may be the way it works for many schools, but I know that some definitely reaward them the same year. A couple of colleges specifically say that they are "reawarded immediately" after a student declines them, so I don't know if that is more typical or if some schools might wait until after the May 1st deadline. </p>
<p>After the acceptance period seems very late to make an additional offer. Logically, if you were waiting on more money from B but you had to respond to A's scholarship package by May 1st you would not turn down A thinking that B might give you a bit more.........</p>