<p>I have already decided on which college I will attend next fall but my guidance counselor needs my financial aid letters from ALL of my colleges. I found most of them online or searched for the letters but there are 3 schools that I can not find anywhere. </p>
<p>If I email/call the colleges, do you think that they will tell me the amount of scholarships they are offering? To be exact, I'm asking for Wesleyan, UConn, and UMaryland.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Just as an FYI, my oldest son never reported his “financial” aid to his school except for the school he chose. He just didn’t “feel like” dealing with the request from the guidance office. YOur guidance office is most likely “data collecting.” So, it is my opinion, the world won’t come to an end if you didn’t keep those letters and can’t turn them in. If the offers were in letter form, you could call the financial aid office at the schools you were missing and ask if they kept a copy and could they send to you. If you never received a written offer, then I personally would not bother them.</p>
<p>We chose not to share our financial aid letters - even from the school D chose - with her high school counselor. We felt that our financial situation really was not their business.</p>
<p>Ditto for us. My daughter’s HS school loved to publish statistics of scholarships the students had been awarded. If student A was offered $80,000 over 4 years from 10 different schools then their scholarships included in the total would be shown $800,000 even though student A could only attend one school and receive one $80,000. Definitely a prime example example of how figures can be manipulated to give a rather false picture. Each graduating class of @ 60 students got millions and millions in scholarship :rolleyes: We thought it was stupid and a bit deceptive (and were tired of the way the most important thing in the school seemed to be bragging rights) so chose not share that information with them.</p>
<p>You are not required to tell them. If you want to give them the info you have then that is your choice. I wouldn’t go to any lengths to seek out additional info though.</p>
<p>Only pertinent info is the info from the college that you are going to attend. I’m at a loss to know why they need the other info unless it is to mine info about financial packages for future classes. </p>
<p>Bottom line, I wouldn’t bother to go the extra mile to get financial info that you don’t have on hand.</p>
<p>ellemenope, it’s bragging rights for the school, as others have mentioned. </p>
<p>I can’t imagine sharing such information with my kid’s school!</p>
<p>How is it painting a false picture? If the school wants to know how much money their students are offered, of course they want to know about the schools that the student didn’t elect to go to as well. It’s completely true unless they claim that number is the amount of scholarships that have been accepted/used.</p>
<p>At our school, we do hold a senior awards night, but only list awards that are merit or talent based and only to the school at which the student will attend in the fall. Merit scholarships to schools you won’t attend? Agree that the only reason to ask for that is “bragging rights.”</p>
<p>I don’t have trouble giving info about scholarships given. I think that it is nice for the kids to get recognized for getting $$$ for their hard work. Of course, D hasn’t gotten any such scholarships yet…so nothing to tell.</p>
<p>“If the school wants to know how much money their students are offered, of course they want to know about the schools that the student didn’t elect to go to as well. It’s completely true unless they claim that number is the amount of scholarships that have been accepted/used.”
Hello? They are asking for FINANCIAL AID figures, which are determined by the parents income. That information is no one else’s business.</p>
<p>We didn’t share the financial aid letters from any school for either of our kids. We did let them know about the scholarships the kids got. The rest of our financial aid was NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS. The world didn’t end, and they stopped asking when we (the parents) wrote them a nice note telling them it was information that we felt was confidential as it related to our family finances and we did NOT intend to share it.</p>
<p>^ I love hearing all of your opinions. Thank you!</p>
<p>Still, I’m totally fine with giving the school this info. If boosting up their number a bit will help them look good or get more donations or whatever, it’s fine with me.</p>
<p>I’m just wondering if the school’s that I listed above will NOT resend their financial aid info for a student who is not even attending (I notified them by email that I wasn’t).</p>
<p>If it makes you feel better just email them and tell them you misplaced
your financial aid letter and need a copy. I’ll bet you get at least one.</p>