Opinion | The Catch-22 of Applying for Private Scholarships

Universities argue that displacing scholarships allows them to better distribute funds to students in need. If one student receives $1,000 in private money, the argument goes, the university can give the $1,000 that would have gone to that student to somebody else.

When a smart kid wins a scholarship, why does Illinois cheap out?

The highest honor in the entertainment field is to be a EGOT winner - someone who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Only 12 people, including Audrey Hepburn and Whoopi Goldberg, have ever received all four awards.

Maryland becomes first state to outlaw scholarship displacement by public colleges

Again and again, college financial aid offices would frustrate Jan Wagner and Michele Waxman Johnson. As executives of Central Scholarship, a nonprofit in Owings Mills that provides scholarships and interest-free loans to Maryland students, they would award a student money and a university would reduce that student's financial aid by the same amount.

'Hands off my scholarship,' Rice student president says in circulating letter

Rice University's student body president is leading a national letter against scholarship displacement, a practice in which institutions reduce the amount of financial aid they offer students who earn private scholarships.

How this little-known rule makes some private scholarships totally worthless

This article originally appeared on StudentLoanHero.com and was written by Susan Shain. Student Loan Hero combines easy-to-use tools with financial education to help the millions of Americans living with student loan debt manage and pay off their loans.

Ababiy: Stop scholarship displacement at the University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota is giving me a decent amount of financial support this year to pay my tuition bill. A mix of grants and scholarships is allowing me to walk across the Washington Avenue Bridge every day and take a licking from the wind.