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How are funds I receive from organizations like National Merit, the Gates Scholars Program, and Jack Kent Cooke factored into my financial aid package?

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Funds from outside organizations meant for your educational costs would be considered outside awards and would be factored into your financial aid package following our outside award policy. Funds from outside awards are incorporated into your financial aid package in two steps:

  1. First to replace the term-time job expectation.
  2. If you have outside awards that exceed your term-time work expectation the remaining amount would replace an equal amount of Harvard scholarship.

Since outside awards are additional resources that reduce your financial need, they cannot be used to replace your parent contribution.