Oyin Adedoyin
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first heard Mar 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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And about a week later, she saw that she had been awarded a roughly $34,000 scholarship towards her tuition.
And that plus the scholarships that she had already gained externally increased.
was enough to at least allow her to register for classes that year.
And so these are some tactics and strategies that students and their families can use when they are doing a financial aid negotiation or more formally known as a financial aid appeal.
Institutions are making their financial aid offers a little bit more accessible.
A lot of colleges have revamped their appeals process.
So instead of having to find the email for the right financial aid,
And write a convincing letter, you can maybe look through your student portal and find a link to a document and then fill out the document appealing your financial aid.
And in some cases, you'll even get a note being like, here's when you can expect to hear back from this.
So the appeals process has been streamlined in a lot of institutions.
And there are also a lot of state scholarships and institution-based scholarships that students should also look at even before they're waiting for acceptances from colleges.
Maybe when students are even deciding where they want to go to college, some of that decision can be baked into how transparent these institutions are about the financial aid that they give out.
I know, at least on the college side, colleges are thinking about that and making their financial aid packages a little bit more explicit.
And so students can access that information online before they decide to apply to this institution.
We're really starting to see this shift where women who are in their 60s and 70s are finding themselves in control of their family's finances, whether it's due to divorce or the passing away of a spouse.
And that's pretty significant because 50 years ago, this same generation of women weren't even allowed to open credit cards in their name or own their own homes.
To get a sense of this shift, we have to look at the baby boomer generation, which is the wealthiest generation currently in the U.S.
They have about $82 trillion.
And now we're looking at their wives because demographically, women tend to outlive their husbands.
And a record number of Americans turned 65 this year.
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