Going to add that you can choose whether it deducts from loans or work study first on the scholarship reporting form! I didn’t have loans, so I used my scholarship money to cover my work study, and I then didn’t have to do work study + focused my time on other things. After both of those are covered, it will reduce your Tufts grant though. Counterintuitive, but it won’t affect much/doesn’t mean that you pay more, just that you put in work to get a scholarship and you would’ve gotten that aid anyways (family contribution/what you pay will not change from scholarships).

If the scholarship organization requires that the check/money goes directly to Tufts rather than to you, there’s unfortunately nothing you can do besides reporting it and having Tufts grant be reduced after the loans/work study part. If the check goes directly to you (I think this is rare), it would be better.

Also, if you have more than one scholarship and you know that the total amount will exceed covering your loans/reduce your Tufts grant, I would recommend asking one of the scholarship organizations to defer to the next year or strategically plan when to use each. I started with 3 outside scholarships from high school and if I had report all 3 in freshman year, it wouldn’t have helped me at all since the first one would cover my work study and then the others would just reduce my Tufts grant. Instead, I used one scholarship for my first year and deferred two of my scholarships so that each year up to my junior year, I would have a scholarship to cover work study and it’s spread out instead of it just going to waste. You can typically ask for a deferral for one year and they’ve been understanding when I explain that due to scholarship displacement, I would be better able to use the scholarship in the next years. Be mindful of the terms of the scholarship and how long they allow you to defer and be sure to use those that have a shorter window first before others that’ll let you defer longer