<p>So I got this “Endowed Scholarship Information Form” along with my Final Financial Aid offer. I am not quite sure what the form is met for. Anyone else get it? Is it for the possibility of more scholarship from Amherst?</p>
<p>tealover, DD and I were wondering the same thing, so she e-mailed financial aide Friday. I will let you know if we get an answer. Also, did you get this in the mail? We haven't got anything via snail mail, but saw on her financial aide page that this document is "not received", whatever the document is.</p>
<p>I just found the form online, and still don't know what exactly it is, but we will fill it out and send it in.</p>
<p>yes I got it snail mail along with my final financial aid statement</p>
<p>please let me know what the financial aid office says. thanks!</p>
<p>I think it's just to help them direct funding from various special scholarship pools to particular students receiving financial aid. As I understood it, there are special funds for various catagories of students -- either because of intended field of study or national origin or certain leadership background, or a variety of things. The form helps them indentify which pools they may be able to draft funds from for each particular FA recipient. As I understand it, it won't effect anything on the receiving end, but might on the allocation end.</p>
<p>Also it is the place to inform them of any outside scholarships you might have received. They will adjust your "term time work" (work-study, I assume?) expectation, so it's just money you won't have to work for during the school term.</p>
<p>We got it in the mail, filled it out, sent it back.</p>
<p>'rentof2 is correct. It won't affect how much financial aid you get, but it will allow Amherst to allocate it's funds more efficiently. There are a number of endowed scholarships that the various donors asked to be directed towards specifics kinds of students (like the 1800's era one for people "not given to smoking, drinking, or gambling). The form allows Amherst to use as much of those funds as possible before it draws on it's general pool of scholarship cash to meet the rest of your financial aid package.</p>