Are scholarship offers negotiable?

davenmame
Thu, 06 Feb 2014 22:54:45 +0000

I don’t have any first-hand knowledge if original scholarship offers can be negotiated. I do know that one year my son didn’t receive any of the additional engineering scholarships that he applied for which seemed a little surprising based on his gpa and activities. I called to see what they were looking for when awarding scholarships and learned that someone accidentally changed him from undergraduate to graduate status. I was quite disappointed because by this time all the undergrad scholarships had been allocated. Wouldn’t you know, a few hours later he received a “new” scholarship. It was from some other fund (which he didn’t qualify for) but I was glad I called to find out.