Is it possible to get both the Lombardi (~5k + rewards) and Presidential merit scholarship (10k) from UF?
Do you HAVE to use prepaid if you have it, or can you just save it for graduate school?
If one receives a Benacquisto Scholarship from the State of Florida (for being NMF) and a merit scholarship from UF, that student will have more scholarship money than COA at UF.
My dad thinks it is ridiculous that you could receive more than a full ride for College, but I’ve been told otherwise.
Will this leftover scholarship money then be deposited into your bank account?
Is scholarship money (BF, Benacquisto, Institutional Merit Scholarship) simply compiled into a big pile of funds (the money i treated the same no matter its source) or are these funds treated differently (ie some can be pocketed after COA is covered and some cannot)?
Thank you everyone who has already messaged me (medrados and GatorNE88); I just need confirmation since I am getting different answers.
Thanks CC.
Please direct your questions to admissions or better yet, SFA. These are not common situations, and unless we have first hand knowledge (for example, being awarded a $10K presidential and Lombardi) we really can’t say.
http://www.sfa.ufl.edu/contact-sfa/
I left a message a couple weeks ago, but no reply
I am pretty sure I have answered this somewhere but YES- as of right now ( the Florida legislature and Governor Rick Scott may change things) you can , in fact, be awarded more than the cost of attendance. The Benacquisto is a STATE scholarship and UF has no influence on the awarding of the scholarship other than to award you the UF $500 NM award and name you a UF NM scholar which will then allow you to receive the Benacquisto. On top of that, you ma , in fact, garner the Presidential as well as the Lombardi. Those are BOTH UF programs I know of a young lady who has the Benacquisto and is a Lombardi scholar and is currently a freshman. Yes, it is possible.What is NOT possible is for you to receive NEED based financial aid on top of those programs as your NEED will be met and you will not then be able to demonstrate need as you must declare receipt of those monies on your taxes and your FAFSA.