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

AnthropoIogy
Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:29:18 +0000

@cortana431:

Same here. I called and asked them about Duke. You can fax/mail in the documents at any time, but that’s the earliest response date apparently. They don’t start looking at appeals for another week at least. CMU’s package gave me a lot of loans… and there’s a good 13k difference in the award itself between CMU and Duke. The FA person I spoke to told me that they know their awards are oftentimes lower than other schools so they usually give more money afterwards. Also, she explained it to me that it’s basically free money: it’s given for all 4 years so it’s not as if they’ll give you a nice, new award this year and screw you over the next 3 (at least that’s a relief). I’m going to send in a letter with my appeal… Keeping my fingers crossed.