A Question for anyone working in College Admissions office

If your college offered a scholarship to an incoming freshman and that student decided not to attend there, then in a subsequent year applied once again for the same scholarship, again as an incoming freshman, would you or your institution tend to hold it against that student that a scholarship had been offered once before and been turned down?

Whether yes or no, do you think a typical state school would be likely to have the same attitude or policy?

My niece was pressured by parents into choosing a school other than the one she wanted, and is now considering taking a year off between high school & college and reapplying for admission + scholarship to her first choice all over again. My girlfriend thinks it’s decently likely that they’ll remember having offered her admission + scholarship for this fall and will blackball her for having turned them down the first time. I would not have thought they’d even cross-tab prior years’ applicants with this year’s pool.

Well, she went ahead and called them to ask and they said it would have no impact on the outcome of reapplying next year.