<p>If already enrolled is it possible to ask for more money from Northeastern? It would be really nice to get a little bit of an extra lift from my parents' and my own shoulders. </p>
<p>When writing the letter, I plan to include that recently I placed 4th in a major Restaurant/Business Competition called ProStart Management, which is ran by the National Restaurant Association. This occurred only last week. Also, I recently received scores back for a State competition, SkillsUSA in which my team and I placed first in the Chapter Business Procedure competition and am now going to Nationals this coming June.</p>
<p>Among that, should I include statements about why I chose Northeastern and other things? I am applying to a lot scholarships right now, but an extra oomph is always helpful...</p>
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<p>Sorry, but there’s been 100 views and no replies :\ …</p>
<p>Probably because most people don’t think you’ll get any. You’ve already enrolled. They have no reason to try to convince you to come here. Plus they are probably all out of money available for financial aid by now. They’ve already given it away, most likely.</p>
<p>Sorry. :/</p>
<p>Ah it’s okay. Thank you! I was thinking that too, but I just wanted some kind of confirmation on that. Thank you though 
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<p>I have not enrolled yet, but I asked for more money too. I just sent a short e-mail saying that I was grateful for their generous offer, but my family may need more in order to send me to Northeastern. No response yet. We’ll see what happens.</p>
<p>You guys should definitely go for it. I didn’t send in any of my financial aid documents until after I sent my enrollment deposit. My total financial aid package ended up being 30K! I spoke with staff at NEU about this since I was worried I would not get anything. They said in no way do they look at someone as already committed and therefore we don’t need to give them a generous and well rounded financial aid package.</p>
<p>But you hadn’t do any financial aid, so you have no way to know if you’d have gotten that same amount pre-enrollment if you had done everything on time. The issue isn’t financial aid, it’s getting MORE. That’s hard to do no matter when, especially already half way through May.</p>
<p>Just to clarify, your financial aid estimate is given to the school by the government. NU is not going to give you more money than this estimate, and some of the time they don’t even award the estimate. If you are looking for scholarship money, a simple email will certainly not suffice. Scholarships usually are given out to the best students or applied for by students meeting certain criteria. I personally don’t think there is necessarily any harm in asking for more money because I doubt that they would retract your offer of admission for just that, but I do think it is futile.</p>
<p>Well people CAN get more aid if they explain how their situation isn’t correctly shown by the FAFSA or something, like if their parent lost a job recently or something. But it’s pretty hard to do, like I said.</p>