<p>My oldest daughter will be a junior next year. She really wants to transfer to a different school so we sent the fafsa to both schools. her current school finally came back with a correct award letter and told her to go ahead and accept it even though she might not be going there. Well, now the other school is telling her no, she has to go in and unaccept it before they will be able to issue her an award letter. As is par for the course per my experience with FA offices, we are getting two totally different instructions.</p>
<p>She went to to the current school FA office today and was once again told it doesn't matter. Then she was told that if her decision came down to money the other school would not give her as much (which I tend to believe). Now she is thinking she is just going to have to stay where she is, and graduate with a degree in liberal studies instead of what she wants to major in (some sort of engligh degree). So who is right?</p>
<p>Pick up the phone, and call College B. Tell them that you need the information now, so that your daughter can make her decision. If you need to, keep working up through the chain of command until you reach someone who has the power to do this. It is in their interest to get the information to your daughter. If they can’t see that, they probably aren’t people your daughter wants to be associated with anyway.</p>
<p>I just got off the phone with them as a matter of fact. Grrrrr. The lady, head of FA, said she needs to decide where she wants to go to school and go there, like she was picking out a new $2 lip gloss. I said well she knows where she wants to go to school, but it comes down to money. I said the school she goes to currently has given her basically her first 2 years free, and enough scholarships this coming year to cover rougly 1 semester free. I said frankly I don’t see how your school is going to compete with what this one is giving her, but I won’t know that until I have an award letter. It’s going to be several weeks yet according to her. She did tell me that it’s not a problem that she accepted the one from the current school. She misunderstood what my daughter was asking her and gave her bad information. So now we just sit tight and wait I guess. At least if we get an unfavorable award letter form school B, she can fall back on the one she is currently going to, and know that she gets the package they originally offered which was very good. Even taking out the plus loan and the work study she still has enough to pay for her tuition and fees, with a little left over to put towards books etc. As frustrating as school A is to deal with, they have lots and lots of money to give students, and they especially treat local kids very well. This other school doesn’t seem to care if she goes there or not.</p>
<p>So, that’s handled, now if only I could figure out how we are going to pay for the other daughter who got a horrible FA award.</p>