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Key PointsNo federal law requires students to report private scholarships to their college. The reporting requirement comes from college policies, not government regulations.Colleges often practice scholarship displacement (reducing their own grants when students win outside scholarships) which can erase the financial benefit of winning a scholarship.At least five states (Maryland, New Jersey, Washington, Pennsylvania, and California) have passed laws restricting scholarship displacement, and federal legislation has been proposed. Students who spend hours applying for private scholarships expect those awards to lower their college costs. But at many schools, winning an outside scholarship triggers a process called scholarship displacement, where the…
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