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A backlash has begun against scholarship displacement, under which universities substitute outside scholarships for already-promised institutional financial aid, resulting in a zero net gain for recipients.
A little-known but common practice where one form of a student’s financial aid, like a university grant, is reduced or canceled when the student receives an outside scholarship affects thousands of students across California and the United States.