Private Scholarship

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DS received a scholarship from my company that he had applied for before he received his USAFA appointment.
Check goes directly to USAFA for "tuition and related expenses".
Is 'related expenses' wide enough to be considered unrestricted so the academy will accept it?
 
DS received a scholarship from my company that he had applied for before he received his USAFA appointment.
Check goes directly to USAFA for "tuition and related expenses".
Is 'related expenses' wide enough to be considered unrestricted so the academy will accept it?

Best bet would be to call admissions but I would think so. My DS had a similarly words scholarship and it was taken.
 
DS had three private scholarships. The two checks that were written to USAFA were rejected. They need to be made out to US treasury with your son's SSN in the memo. One organization was hesitant to do that and the check was sent back twice. You will receive a pdf packet titled something like "Instructions for Appointees." Ask the company to follow the instructions in there to a T. It took until Thanksgiving for all of my son's scholarships to show in his account. Eventually what will happen is the scholarships are applied toward his "debt" (pay advance for uniforms, computer, etc) and that will reduce how much is encumbered for debt repayment. Ie, his paycheck will be bigger each month than other freshmen.
 
Waiting game is correct. The check must be made out to the U.S. Treasury with Cadet's name and S.S. number in the memo.
You could write a letter to the scholarship committee requesting the check be made payable to your cadet. It was our experience that the organizations were happy to oblige seeing the "US Treasury" method could be delayed and paying the cadet directly has less red tape.
 
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