Applied as a transfer student, and received $20K per year. If you’ve appealed for more merit aid, how was your experience?
They likely wont give you more merit aid but you can appeal for more financial aid (will need to submit financial paperwork and explain why you need more).
That said, we had such a bad experience with the GW financial aid office - it’s one of the top reasons my daughter did not go there. I spent the entire month of April last year trying to appeal, but they wouldn’t respond to emails or calls - except to say that it would take a very long time to appeal and that I likely would not even hear back before the 5/1 deposit deadline. In the end they came back with more aid with a day or two to spare before the deadline, but by that point we had already decided on another school (who was able to respond much more promptly and courteously to our appeal).