So how did you do with Financial Aid - it's posted

DowneasterDad
Tue, 03 Apr 2012 09:02:29 +0000

CMU landed exactly where I thought it would. They’re 12K off the best offer our D received. They’re also double the average offer from the others. They are very smart to low-ball applicants as a small percentage will “bite,” at the original offer and when they improve the contested offers it makes them seem like they’re accomodating, snagging even more applicants. Not a bad stratedgy. The only time I see it backfiring is for those students who are not 85% sure they want to attend CMU and have better offers financially from other comparible schools. My Ds top offer does not come from a peer school so I don’t see them matching it dollar for dollar. We’ll give it a try and see what happens, however April 18th is a long time to wait for a decision, My D might have moved on by then.