<p>Thank you thumper1 for your answers.</p>
<p>They are helpful, but still I haven’t found what I am looking for…I wish it was as simple as one child having assets higher than the other, but if that applied in our family circumstances, the one who has more in the bank, receives more in all areas…merit, institutional and federal…no Pell Grants, which I wouldn’t expect.</p>
<p>To be honest, I have little or no expectations for private scholarships associated with d’s college, as application is in the middle of the academic year…and not because of worthiness with regard to grades and other merit factors , which happen to be strong.</p>
<p>I don’t mean to come across as a bitter parent who envies the students who rec’d scholarships that I feel mine were entitled to ( I have some personal experience with that and it isn’t pretty )</p>
<p>What perplexes me is how by federal methodology, one can receive and one cannot, which leads me to question who actually DOES receive from college in question ?
D is a junior and knows a lot of the students of her relatively small school…many wealthy ( really wealthy ) and some dirt poor. No one she knows receives much of anything…even a friend whose parents are literally at poverty level.
That is why I posed the question of the thread topic …</p>