Private school scholarship discounts

[wintertime2016]

It's my first time posting on here after following several threads so here goes:
My Dc won a scholarship to senior school which clearly stated on offer letter X % of FULL BOARDING fee, they however flexi board which is considerably cheaper. I however noticed that the first invoice only deducted the X % from the FLEXI fee price meaning less discount for us.
My question is has anyone had this experience before, are discounted awards applied as if your child would be paying the dearer full fee or as a % of the day rate/flexi rate. I don't want to look ungrateful or greedy by querying this already generous discount meaning the offer letter was a typo or had assumed my DC would full board?
Any advice or experience of this situation would be appreciated!
Ps invoice is already paid but thinking of future term costs etc

Our initial letter did give a percentage discount but it stated fees only as a day student. Subsequent letters sent afte a new bursar took up post (we have to submit figures every year) have actually given an amount in £ that has been awarded.

We then have another letter sent the first time dd flexi boarded giving us a nightly rate (this worked out at the same percentage)

So schools probsbly all have different ways of wording things.

At DS' secondary school, scholarships are also offered as a significant % of the FULL boarding fee. If you choose to flexi-board or be a day pupil, ie not to join the scholars' house, you don't get any discount at all, only an honorary scholarship. This is made clear from the beginning though.

So in your shoes I'd be happy that you're still getting 20% off your son's fees!

Fairly irrelevant, but I got a scholarship to a private day school (19 years ago ) and it was worth a whole £80 a term Apparently that was enough to pay the full fees at one point, presumable the 13th century or something

I think you should be happy that you have a discount of a flexi fee at all!
My ds's prep school gave him an offer of a scholarship stated as 25% of his termly fees. My friend's daughter was offered 25% of full boarding fee. We had two quite different letters. Difference was they really wanted my son on any terms but my friend they only wanted her daughter if she was going to full board. Had she been day or flexi, then the scholarship would have been withdrawn entirely so count yourself lucky that you were offered a PERCENTAGE discount off FULL boarding yet you have in reality been given a PERCENTAGE discount off FLEXI.
You offer was for a percentage not £££s. I've never heard of ££s being knocked off only ever a percentage applied.
A scholarship is like a contract in a business sense. On paper you were offered a contract : numerical percentage off a full boarding fee. You accepted this. You have then chosen a flexi option so strictly speaking you are not even entitled to expect a percentage deduction of this flexi fee. It all comes down to what was written (precisely) in the scholarship offer letter - and not what you think the letter might be taken to mean.

Bit harsh, left. OP was asking on here for clarification. She obviously misunderstood and now has to pay more than she expected. She has accepted that this is the norm, which she didn't know before.

One more thing you might want to check is extras. Mine had a generous bursary but anything extra (music lessons, extra help, trips etc) were charged at full whack and they came to quite a lot.

Did not intend to come back to this thread as my question had been answered already. But just read your commentleftandright. Firstly just to clarify this is a scholarship so it was earned by my DC in that they were other applicants which they could have offered ie even the full boarder applicants if this was a prerequisite for their awards so it's not a bursary or means tested i.e no financial information is required or requested!
I am grateful, bear in mind if someone enters a competition expecting a certain prize that is what you expect to get when you win so was a bit surprised that's all. If it was being ungrateful as you implied I don't think the first invoice would have been paid without querying surely!!!
Also I understand that some scholarships for most senior schools don't carry any monetary value anyway but just the Scholar title or a very small % so YES we are extremely lucky!!

Thanks for having my back Eventhewind