<p>My daughter, because she volunteered a lot, found ones geared to that, easier to obtain. The largest award she won, there were 2 winners, one girl was from a very rich neighborhood and herself, not from a rich neighborhood.
Many students have complained to me and on this site, that some scholarships do not go to the student but the college and they don’t always give it to the student for their portion. Many do, but you can’t count on that. I remember one girl at Clark I think, so angry that a 5,000 scholarship she tried so hard to obtain didn’t lower her payments at all. Bryn Mawr had this on their site when my daughter applied:
Bryn Mawr will meet your full demonstrated need, so any
additional grant or scholarship aid you receive will replace
a portion of our award to you. College policy does not
allow outside grant or scholarship assistance, including
tuition benefits, to replace the parent or student expected
family contribution.
That is something you have to think about also, although many students don’t know their colleges rules beforehand.
My daughter was lucky her 1500. went to her and the other, that went to her college, lowered her contribution.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>True…if you get a scholarship and you already are being given aid from the school, the scholarship lowers your aid (not your EFC). But, many colleges will reduce gaps and loans first. Schools don’t want you to receive more than EFC.</p>
<p>If you get paid an outside scholarship, then you’re supposed to report it to the college.</p>
<p>However, in a case where the child doesn’t qualify for aid, then every scholarship essentially lowers the EFC.</p>
<p>My daughters college said they wanted scholarships reported that they were given not the student. She got one that was sent to the college and lowered their aid amount to us. I was surprised when I read that and deleted the other one from the scholarship form. I will check twice though or report it and let them deal with it how they will.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>I don’t understand the above.</p>
<p>If a scholarship is being sent to the school, having a student “report it to school” is a duplication. It would make sense that they would want to know about the scholarships that weren’t sent to them.</p>
<p>We’ve never had to report the outside scholarships that get sent to the school. The school knows about them as soon as they receive them.</p>
<p>I know, but they just wanted them mentioned on a form that we fill out. Other things are on it also, for FA, but it has check marks, “was the scholarship given to the student or us?” type of thing. It is redundant, but since they had the option, we put it down.
I think the person misspoke and I am reporting both, I think she meant was it wont be used toward their contribution, just hers, so I should just apply it to the bill, but I know they must want to record it. All colleges seem to say, parents contributions don’t count.</p>
<p>As a high school senior, UGA offered me a $3,000 a year renewable institutional scholarship whereas Georgia Tech itself didn’t offer me anything: I got a $1,000 a year renewable scholarship from NMSC and a $300 scholarship from my local GT alumni club for the first year only. </p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong: I’m very grateful to the NMSC and to my local alumni club. That’s a good chunk of change that my parents didn’t have to pay. While I was certainly disappointed that Georgia Tech didn’t give me any institutional scholarships, I cannot be as disappointed as some of the others who have posted in this thread since I turned down a $3,000 a year scholarship from another school. All I can say is that if you work hard, it all works out in the end. Before graduating from Georgia Tech, I won two institutional awards for academic performance that came with $5,500 in prize money.</p>