Are scholarships often awarded to students directly or schools of their choice?
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Are scholarships often awarded to students directly or schools of their choice?
Often, scholarships through your university are credited to your student account, and you are refunded if your account already has some money in it. Some scholarships will be awarded directly to the student in the form of a check, but more often than not, scholarships are awarded to students through a university’s tuition portal.
Most scholarship organizations send the award directly to your college’s financial aid office so the school can apply it to your bill.
Others give the award to you. If you get the funds directly, or indirectly as a tuition refund, you can typically spend the money on education-related expenses like room, board or books. Some groups also approve scholarship spending on living expenses, like dorm room furniture or groceries. Of course, even if they don’t, there’s not much a scholarship committee can do to enforce its spending rules. No scholarship organization really tracks how students spend their scholarship money.