scholarship student
Merit-aided enrollee
A scholarship student is someone attending school with financial support awarded for academic achievement, athletic ability, or other merit.
The term sometimes carries class connotations—distinguishing students who earned their way from those whose families simply paid: As a scholarship student at the prep school, she felt out of place among the wealthy kids.
- grantBestow or award money
- financial aidFunding for education expenses
- financial needInsufficient resources for expenses
- tuitionPayment for instruction
- meritDeserved praise-worthiness
academic · honor roll · fellowship · bursary · recipient · award · GPA · dean's list · hardworking · opportunity · application · acceptance letter · essay · first generation · campus · dorm · textbooks · grateful
- studentsfreshman, sophomore, pupil, junior, senior
- college lifefreshman, freshman year, sophomore, junior, classes
- schoolmatesclassmate, desk mate, deskmate, seatmate, lab partner
- Prodigieschild prodigy, prodigy, wunderkind, whiz kid, boy wonder
- art students
scholarship, student, scholar, scholarly, school, scholastic, scholasticism, studio, studious