is univerisity's scholarships a price discrimination?
Scholarships certainly count as price discrimination. Charging different prices to different groups of consumers for the same good is third degree price discrimination, which is what occurs with school sponsored scholarships. First degree price discrimination occurs when a firm charges a different price for every unit consumed, and while theoretically possible for a school to do, is not done in practice and would require a much more complex pricing scheme than that offered by scholarships in the usual sense of the word.