Negotiating scholarships / financial aid - how to?

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Sat, 01 Apr 2017 16:45:51 +0000

The other thing to remember is that this isn’t a science. It certainly helps a great deal to come armed with stats as @uskoolfish and @CollegeDadofTwo and others wisely suggest, particularly if you’re dealing entirely with the financial aid department.

But once you start dealing with the actual department, there are other things that come into play, subjective factors–mainly how much they want you and if they think you’ll come if they give you more money. This is why it’s very important to know what your top choice is and to communicate that to the department (and mean it). Just because another school doesn’t have matching financial need offers, doesn’t necessarily mean the school won’t give you the grant/scholarship.