Grant for the education is a little help for the students to cover the tuition fees. I am using the word “little” because the help you receive form the grant is really small. If earlier it was possible to cover almost all the tuition fees with the help of the educational grant, nowadays it is just impossible to do it. The amount of the grant has become miserable, it is hardly possible to cover one third of the whole amount of the tuition fees.
However, still, I think that it is worse to fight for the grant, as the grant is given for you as a present from the government or some other institution, private or federal one. If you have the opportunity to be awarded with the grant, it is not very clever to deny it.
Grants are given to the students only once a year, and in order to get the grant, the student should have some fixed merits either in academics or in the sports. But, during the last several years, the majority of the grants remain without recipients, as the students are frightened that they are not eligible for them. That is why apply for the grant and Wait. You do not lose a thing.