Interesting conversation with Admissions Office

OperaDad
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:08:48 +0000

I was less interested in negotiation strategy than that we were not taking a spot and aid from another potential student. At one level, one student’s decision shouldn’t affect the “yields” this early in the process. At least with Financial Aid, if they knew they were not giving $x to my son, then they could reprogram the money for someone else. The fact that they treat most of it as “discounts”, rather than $'s from an aid budget, is interesting.

It will be interesting to see how much aid is negotiable with a school when they really want your kid. I can then use that experience to negotiate with schools higher on his list.