If you get an automatic entrance scholarship, does it automatically get put into your tuition fees or do you need to email somebody?

Most scholarships — especially those from the school that you’re attending, like an automatic entrance scholarship — will be credited directly to your tuition account. You probably won’t really “see” the money, it’ll just be deducted from the amount of tuition you owe. Some scholarship providers will instead mail you a cheque or do direct deposit to your bank account, in which case you’ll need to move the money around yourself to cover tuition and so on.