<p>One of my D’s top choice schools gave her a sizeable scholarship but wanted her decision well before the May 1 deadline (several years ago). Another School was not going to release admission decisions until April ( she was a transfer) so she told the first school she could not make a decision until she had all of her offers. To our surprise, the first school upped their scholarship offer each time she told them she was not ready to make a decision. In the end she accepted the offer at the first school- she was already leaning that way and they made it very attractive financially. </p>