Oyin Adedoyin
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first heard Mar 2023
last heard Feb 2025
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A first step typically is reaching out to your admissions office and sending any updated information that might qualify you for some additional scholarship money.
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So if you're arranging a meeting with the school, it's best to have the student, your parents, and even if possible, a high school guidance counselor in the room during this meeting.
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Yeah, because they can all help strengthen the student's case to the university.
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This is also the best time to ask for more merit-based aid.
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Let's say the student's test scores were originally below the school's threshold for merit aid, but now are higher.
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Ask the college admissions office if the student can now qualify.
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Some colleges will do this, since the goal of the merit aid is to increase the average admission test scores.
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But people often make a mistake here by highlighting the student's grades or test scores.
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But that's what got the student admitted.
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Focus instead on what makes the student unique.
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This could be something like winning a major award or a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal or even receiving a patent.
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Exactly.
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Now is the best time to kind of sprinkle on all those extra things that make the student unique.
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We spoke with Mark Kantrowitz, a financial aid specialist, and he said that you can even highlight the student's unusual hobbies, unusual volunteer activities or high achievements in sports like a third degree or higher black belt.
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If another school offers a better financial aid package than your first choice, tell the preferred school right away.
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You could word it like, my child wants to attend your school as their first choice.
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Other schools are offering X dollars more.
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Can we meet to see if we can get the same amount of assistance from your school?
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And most colleges don't automatically match aid offers from competing schools.
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They're mainly looking for signs of information that was provided to the other college that wasn't available to them when they prepared an aid offer for the student.
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