<p>My daughter goes to an out of state public state university. She made great grades in high school and had a decent- but not great SAT. Anyway, I found out their school had reciprocal scholarships for kids who live in neighboring states. </p>
<p>So, I called the financial aid office and said that even though my daughter had already received a merit scholarship, was there anyone from one of the reciprocal states who did not take their scholarship. Could my daughter be eligible for some of that money since she is coming from so far away? I also explained that my son was currently in college and we are paying for loans.</p>
<p>The person in the FA office asked me some more questions about my daughter and if she had community service and volunteer hours and luckily, she had tons of them along with other leadership things. A week later, she received an additional $3000 VIP scholarship!</p>
<p>All I did was ask! It didn’t hurt!</p>