Scholarship question

[jmae]

Hi all

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[silverthief2]

Generally they will reduce the amount of your tuition award by the amount of the scholarship. Then the scholarship funds are reallocated to another student, in theory at least.

[shil]

This. Also, sometimes your stipend will be increased a little - not by the full amount of your scholarship, but some of it.

[freddie]

Is this fellowship aid or a graduate/teachers assistantship?

[jmae]

It's termed a "university fellowship", I believe.

[freddie]

Then it's likely what silverthief2 said. But yeah, email and ask!

[ravenword]

It depends on the program. My program also guarantees tuition + stipend for as long as I'm in good academic standing. My program's policy: If I get outside funding for a year, I get either my regular stipend + $2000, or the total amount of the award, whatever's bigger (yay!). So, if my stipend was $10,000 and my award was only $8,000, the university would take my external funding and I'd get paid $12,000 for that year ($8000 from my external funds and $4000 from the university). They use the remaining $6,000 they would have spent on my stipend that year to do... other stuff. If my award was for $13,000, I'd get all $13,000 straight up from my external funding, and the university would put my $10,000 of expected stipend toward other stuff.

I would ask your program for the specifics of how they deal with such things, as I imagine they all differ.

[jmae]

Heehee, thank you :3

[idealforcolors]

Where I'm going, the school just takes the money they would've spent on you, but it makes it probably that you'll be able get funding for a year past the guaranteed number, and a lot of people wind up needing an extra year or two beyond five to finish the degree. Might as well check.