I just received identical scholarship emails from a recruit in two consecutive cycles. I am recruiting vs a SIM AI team and had put some effort into the recruit in the cycle.
 I thought that you only got the scholarship email when the status changes so getting the same message twice in a row has me somewhat confused. The message is an unambiguous one indicating I am trailing.

al - i think some funky stuff like that might have started happening when considering credit came into play. maybe thats not what caused it, but i have seen something like that too. i think it just means that some time in the simulation of that recruiting cycle, one person's actions pushed the recruit into a different scholarship message, and then the other person's actions pushed them back.

i guess the reason i think its consider credit based is because i feel like ive seen it with sims when i did nothing, so the only change in position would have had to be due to considering credit.

i suppose the only take away is there is a good chance you are *right* on the border of the message you got - not sure if it would be the high end or low end, or if it could go either way.

I agree borderline thats how I interpret it.  But take my advice with a grain of salt.