For Students

Is your donor requesting documents?

Scholarship donors may ask to verify your enrollment, your financial aid award, your financial need, or your cost of attendance budget before sending your scholarship funds. There are many ways to get information from donors including instant, self-serve options:

Download Enrollment Verification
Print Your Financial Aid Letter
Submit a Needs Analysis Form

“Where is my Scholarship?”

  1. Contact Donor: 
    • Check if your donor has sent the check to WSU. Ask them when and where they sent the check.
  2. Contact Bursar’s Office if:
  3. Contact Student Financial Services if:
    • Your scholarship is not posted to your financial aid package 10 business days after receiving an email from the Bursar’s Office,
    • Your scholarship is posted to your financial aid package but has not disbursed to your student account.
Email WSU Scholarships

Is Your Donor Sending Funds Directly To You?

Students must report any outside funding other than federal financial aid to Student Financial Services each award year to ensure accurate funding.  Some examples include:

  • Scholarships (university, non-university, and state-funded scholarships)
  • Third-party guarantees,
  • Employer tuition assistance/reimbursement
  • Tribal funding.

Report estimated financial resources as soon as possible so that adjustments can be made in your award without delaying the disbursement process or requiring aid repayments.

Notification of Estimated Financial Assistance

Outside Scholarship Resources

WSOS CIP Code Letter (Current Students)
How to Set Up Direct Deposit
Enrollment Verification
WSU Scholarship Search Tool
Native American Programs
How to Print Your Financial Aid Award
FNA Submissions Form
Scholarship Designation Form

For Donors

A closeup view of someone placing an envelope in the mailbox.

When sending scholarship checks, please include:

  1. Student name
  2. WSU ID Number
  3. Any instructions or requirements for disbursal including:
    • Enrollment requirements (including if funds are ok to release at less than full time enrollment).
    • If funds are all for one specific term or if funds should be split evenly between fall and spring semester.

Send Scholarships To:

Send scholarships for all WSU campuses to the Pullman Bursar’s Office

Bursar’s Office

Attn: Scholarship Desk
PO Box 641039
342 French Ad Bldg
Pullman, WA 99164-1039
Bursar.scholarships@wsu.edu
509-335-9711 ext. 9

Scholarship Designation Form

An optional form for donors to complete. This form supplies the address to send the payment and a place to designate how you would like the scholarship(s) to be applied to the student-recipient’s account.

Scholarship Designation Form

Need scholarships funds returned to donor?

Complete the Scholarship Return Request.

Scholarship Return Request

Default Scholarship Disbursement Policies

If a donor does not specify how a scholarship is to be disbursed to the student, the following policies will apply:

  • No Instructions for split between terms: 
    • The WSU Bursars Office will evenly split awards $1,000 and up between fall and spring, awards $999.99 and below will be applied to the current term only.
  • No Enrollment requirements: 
    • Funds disperse automatically for:
      • Half-Time Undergraduate Students (6+ credits):
      • Half-time Grad Students (defined by program requirements)
    • Funds are held to await donor instruction for:
      • Less Than Half-Time Students: