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Podcast: Tests and the Rest: College Admissions Podcast
Episode: What Is Scholarship Displacement?
Description: We all know how valuable scholarship awards can be in defraying the high cost of education. But how many applicants recognize how often colleges subtract from their own aid packages the exact amounts students report in external scholarship funds? Amy and Mike invited scholarship expert Ken Downs to shed light on the mysterious phenomenon of scholarship displacement. What are five things you will learn in this episode? What exactly is scholarship displacement? Why does scholarship displacement occur and how does it impact students? What are the best ways to find out which schools follow a displacement po...