Private Scholarship Awards

For all scholarship payments, we strongly encourage and request all scholarship payments be mailed directly to the college address below. Please make sure the student’s name and PAWS ID number are noted on all payments. Please do not have the donor send scholarship payments via ACH.

Please include a completed W9 form when submitting a scholarship check so the College has the necessary information on file if a refund is required due to student ineligibility or enrollment changes.

Please Note: Private scholarships may only be reported using the navigation listed below, on a Desktop or Laptop computer. The reporting tool is not supported by cell phones.

To report private scholarships for the academic year, log into your PAWS account, click on the Financial Aid tile and then select “Report Private Scholarship.” Enter the name of the Scholarship, the name of the donor of the Scholarship (if different from the name of the Scholarship) and the amount of the scholarship. There is a place to provide additional information about the scholarship if necessary. If you have contact information for the donor, please use that space to give their name and phone number, email address or mailing address. Please read the instructions on the form to ensure that the process will go smoothly.

TCNJ Policy states that if a private scholarship award is $1000 or more, that amount is split between the Fall and Spring semesters. Therefore, a $1000 scholarship would be applied $500 to the Fall semester and $500 to the Spring semester unless indicated otherwise in writing from the donor. If a private scholarship is less than $1000, it will be entirely applied to the Fall semester unless otherwise indicated in writing from the donor.