<p>My financial aid completely consists of grants and work study. my parent contribution is $0. my student contribution is of course $2300. I just received an outside scholarship of $3000. I know you can use an outside scholarship to replace work study and that you cannot use outside scholarships to replace parent contribution, but can it be used for student contribution? and since i dont have any loans and my grants cover tuition, room & board, and books, can i use some of my scholarship money to cover a cornell fitness center membership? the scholarship i won says it can be used for "tuition, room & board, books, and fees". can it be counted as a "fee"? will cornell allow me to? or will it just reduce the cornell grants and screw everything else since they are not work study or loans?</p>
<p>How much is your workstudy? You can first use it toward that. Anything left over in the scholarship, you can call the FA office and ask them. My s received an academic excellence scholarship for $500/yr for 4-yrs and he will be applying toward his employment earning (I believe this is equivalent to WS) portion. That will save him some time for study and ECs.</p>
<p>my work study is $1800</p>
<p>i asked cornell about it and this is what they said:</p>
<p>“Your work study will be eliminated, and it will then adjust dollar for dollar of your grant monies. It will not adjust your student contribution. You would have the option of submitting a Budget Increase Request form for charges such as Health Insurance and Fitness Membership (once you have been billed for them), to which we would be able to look at your eligibility to have your grant monies returned to you to help cover those charges. If you are unable to earn and save the expected student contribution, you will have the option of completing and submit a Summer Savings Expectation Adjustment form. This form will be available in the end of August, and you would submit the request and information, and we would look at your eligibility to have loan or work study provided to you to help cover the amount that you were unable to save over the summer.”</p>
<p>Is it easy for this to happen (Getting your aid increased for things like a fitness membership)? And does anybody know what the Summer Savings form entails? i mean, ill probably have my student contribution by august (if i continue being as frugal as i am) but i’d really like to spend some of this freaking money i’m making (i never spend any money on ANYTHING because im saving it. and by anything i mean not even like a $2 pack of gum. i live on my own so im also paying my own bills) and if i have an extra scholarship anyways, i might as well put it to use.</p>
<p>bump …</p>
<p>ha ha I’m in the same situation and when I called that’s what they told me too. I have like an extra $2500 after the work study is covered and I asked if I could buy a laptop with that money…told me I needed to submit some form. Any current student that has been through all this…or has actually spent their extra scholarship money…help or tips appreciated…ha ha</p>