Acceptance, Without Financial Aid Letter

mamenyu
Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:31:24 +0000

If you are talking about merit aid, as opposed to need-based, if your kid got a big award from the conservatory (e.g., in connection with an early review application), you may not get an additional one from the college. (In the end, the packages are coming from a single financial aid office, though the rationales behind the offers are different and the con is more generous because it is competing with some attractive alternatives – in the realm of top LAC’s Oberlin is one of the few that gives merit aid). If there was nothing in the acceptance letter, there may well not be any college scholarship coming, even if your kid has great stats and would likely have been offered a merit scholarship from the college if that was the only application. In terms of negotiating for increased aid, you may have better luck with the con than the college.