If I receive a check for a scholarship that is payable to me, can I cash it in myself?

Question

at a personal checking account? The reason I ask this is that if I give it to my Bursar's office...I will lose that money since I already have excess outside scholarships. They already told me that I'm going to lose that money. I don't want to lose this money. I want to save it in MY checking account for next year when I don't have that much money to use.

Can I?

Answer 1

no most of the time if you earn a scholarshipand it's made payable to you....then it's yours and you can spend it whatever way you see fit.