<p>It's the school's policy that scholarships only reduce workstudy, not the parent contribution. Will scholarships received this year roll over to my sophomore year? I'll be paying for most of the parent contribution anyway, and it would also be wonderful if I could somehow get more workstudy to replace parent contributions. Has anyone does this before?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure that schools can only award federal work study up to the amount of your need (COA - EFC). They can’t use it to replace your EFC, so the only way to receive work study would be to petition for an increase in your COA, ie. if you will have transportation or other expenses in excess of the estimated amount used in their standard COA. If that’s not possible, you can still work on campus in non-WS jobs.</p>
<p>Do you mean that you have scholarships that you can’t use this year and want them to be held until the following year? If so, you should contact the scholarship grantor with this question.</p>
<p>Work Study is need based so cannot reduce the EFC as the EFC is not considered need (that is the whole point of the EFC that it is used to calculate need, COA-EFC=need).</p>
<p>If there is no need based aid then usually an outside scholarship can be used to reduce the EFC. So it would reduce the WS first then it would reduce what the parent has to pay. For instance say the COA is 30,000 and the EFC is 27,000 and you got WS of $3000, then if you got a scholarship of $5000 it would wipe out the $3000 WS and also reduce what parents must pay by $2000. But if there is other need based aid in the package (grants, subsidized loans etc) then in most cases the scholarship would reduce them first.</p>
<p>If it is a school scholarship and they will not reduce the parent contribution then there must be a need component to the scholarship.</p>