GI Bill and MERIT aid

Paying for College
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<p>I fI apply for the GI Bill Chapter 35, will my colleges reduce my grants? This doesn't include need based aid and loans. For example:
If I recieve a 20,000 scholarship from elizabethtown, which is solely merit-based, will they reduce the merit?
Also, will it effect grants? I think this is need-based aid. example:
From Hobart and William Smith Colleges, I recieved about 23500 in grant aid</p>

<p>Can anyone explain how it works at all? If it helps: my dad is disabled and managed to convince the VA (or whomever) that it was 100% from being in the Vietnam war. The diability is going to be eventually fatal</p>

<p>OH! And most of my colleges are private in Pennsylvania and New York around $50,000 a year with room and board (something I CANNOT afford- i can barely afford $5,000 a year- I applied because their generous with aid and merit)</p>

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<p>will my colleges reduce my grants? </p>

<p>What you mean is…will colleges reduce your merit scholarship.</p>

<p>Thanks to your dad for serving our country. </p>

<p>It can depend largely on how the scholarship is worded. </p>

<p>I know that Alabama recently changed the wording on its merit scholarships so that those who are using GI bill benefits would not have anything reduced. </p>

<p>So, you’ll have to check with each school and see how the scholarship is worded. I’m not sure of the exact details but I think (not sure) if the scholarship is written in a way that it appears to go towards tuition or housing or some other named expense, then there is some kind of reduction. But, please check to be sure. I may not be remembering the details correctly.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>