<p>larmonely – you don’t sound whiny at all. Congratulations on those fabulous acceptances. I’ve heard that need based offers from other schools will help you negotiate for more financial aid from the school you would really like to attend.</p>
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<p>I absolutely stunned. I thought the financial aid offices were used to people calling about their financial aid packages. I can’t believe it. I was thinking that the other posters who were telling you to be respectful were doing an overkill but apparently not. All the other stories I’ve heard about contacting financial aid offices regarding packages have made it sound like you could be direct and not ■■■■■ foot around and the interaction could be very straight forward.</p>
<p>Continue with what you are doing. Work with them but if you continue to get this kind of treatment you might want to seriously consider Columbia.</p>