<p>Hi Everyone!
Much to my excitement, I was accepted to Brown, Yale, Penn, and Carleton last week. I'm so excited. Unfortunately, out of those, only Carleton gave me an acceptable (and fully need-based) financial aid package last week. I was so confused, especially about Yale (which is my top choice, and offered me around 30% of what Carleton offered).
What is the best way to go about appealing at Yale, and the other schools? Yale makes such a big deal of how they are affordable for everyone, so I was quite shocked at my package.
Thanks!</p>
<p>Call Yale’s financial aid office and ask to speak with an officer. Tell them how excited you are about attending Yale, but that you have a 100% need-based offer from Carleton which is 30% cheaper. Given Carleton’'s offer, would Yale be willing to re-examine their financial aid package. (Be prepared to immediately fax or email Carleton’s offer to Yale.) Yale may, or may not, opt to re-evaluate their offer.</p>
<p>I think Yale will re-evaluate their offer. They DO NOT want to lose a top student – and clearly, you are one!</p>
<p>I feel like a broken record but please make sure if they match it, that it is more than just for freshman year. </p>
<p>I posted this on another thread this morning, but it bears repeating</p>
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<p>^This what I did with another school who I asked to come closer to Ys generous offer and going into sr year, they have honored the promise; use email to have a paper trail.</p>