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.