So I'm not entirely sure about all of this, but I believe that if you take outside scholarships other than those the institution may offer, it may count against your academic money. This is what I was told by a few coaches during the recruiting process but I could have heard wrong.
Example. School XYZ gives a $5000 baseball scholarship to Student-Athlete. S-A gets a merit scholarship from an outside organization, such as a corporation, worth $1000. I believe that the baseball money has now turned into $4,000 and the $1,000 from corporation is still counted = $5,000. But, the extra $1,000 that the coach now has cannot be used because the funds from an outside scholarship are "countable aid".
Hope that is right, at least from what I can recall. Someone please set me straight if it isn't!
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