How good is Financial Aid?

<p>I told her to call the financial aid office, but she’s heard that they’re really hard to work with. Thus, she’s paranoid that if she calls to complain about it, they’ll either revoke the money that they gave me or rescind my admission.</p>

<p>Now, this may be because of the Pell Grant I got, but when we were planning on financing UChicago, we were supposing that the Pell Grant would be ADDED to the UChicago Grant. Even after that, it’d still be at great financial strain to my family (about $12,000/year). Now they’ve taken away my Pell Grant money and taken away an additional $2000 or so a year… Does every university do this? Purdue ADDED the Pell Grant to the rest of my aid and subtracted nothing.</p>