<p>Did you try applying for finaid anyway, jacknjill? You wouldn’t have anything to lose.</p>
<p>These institutions sometimes say things that they are willing to budge on sometimes. For example, Northwestern says they generally do not give scholarship aid to transfers in their first year. But they ended up giving me a huge scholarship! I was totally shocked. </p>
<p>I remember I almost didn’t even apply to NU because of that statement!! But then I said, “What the heck… You never know.” ;)</p>