| Got more without asking from one school !
My daughter has been accepted to three LAC in Michigan/Indiana/Ohio area. Her top choice school offered the lowest merit scholarship. While I was composing a delicately worded letter to top choice school, the school which had already offered the highest scholarship sent us a letter increasing her offer by $2000. In light of recent decisions by Harvard and Yale to use more of their endowment on student merit aid, this school had decided to review their merit awards for all students and were increasing use of their endowment for this purpose.
I e-mailed and later spoke with admissions counselor from the top choice school and compared the final cost of attending their school versus the other two -- no offer to increase was made, except that she might get an additional small scholarship for being a national merit scholar finalist. We'll be visiting soon for admitted students' day, so I might take the opportunity to explore this further. We'll also be taking a second look at the higher offer school to make sure daughter wouldn't like it just as well... |