<p>Well, how do you do it? Middlebury is an awesome school and I would love to go but as you can guess, money is the issue. I received my fin aid package and it will not be enough at all. What is the best way to beg for more or is there a way?</p>
<p>Does anyone know if calling and talking to a fin aid rep would help?</p>
<p>All opinions welcome! I don't want to go to a state school!</p>
<p>No harm in asking…Unlikely to help…</p>
<p>If you get better financial aid from another school you can show them that and they might do better :). I’ve heard some have actually made this work.</p>
<p>Haha not a bad idea! Thanks! You would think they would give a break to a teacher’s kid!</p>
<p>Midd has been known to reevaluate aid packages. However, you have to show them a comparison from another college that uses the same formula. i.e. CSS/Financial Aid Profile. No college that uses the CSS profile is going to attempt to match a state college, which most likely uses FASFA and not CSS to evaluate aid.</p>
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<p>They already did. You were accepted :)</p>
<p>HOOhoo CrewDad, that is a bit snarky, don’t you think…I doubt parents occupation(except for first generation) is taken into account…</p>
<p>^ ^ </p>
<p>It was a joke. Relax! 
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<p>Yes, call the financial aid office at Middlebury and start working with them. Start mulling this over yourself. There are many ways to finance an education, maybe if you think outside of the box you will come up with something creative.</p>
<p>Ha CrewDad! No worries! Of course I didn’t expect them to actually care if my parents are teachers or not but it doesn’t hurt to dream…</p>
<p>My mom was able to call the Assistant Director and they will give “a little” more which might just mean a couple hundred whic is better than nothing! I guess the fact that I have some money from investments and a summer job doesn’t help my overall need status.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the ideas folks! The University of Wyoming is great but not as great as Middlebury! :)</p>
<p>Middlebury has a firm “need-only” policy for financial aid - no merit-based aid. So the only way you will get any further aid is to show them that your financial circumstances have changed or were not fully explained in the forms you submitted. A couple of the schools that accepted my son are offering him substantial merit aid (we didn’t quite qualify for need-based aid) so I called Middlebury and simply explained that these other schools were offering all this aid and could they reconsider their decision to give him no aid. They were willing to reexamine the file and to accept new information, but only to determine if there were some basis to find financial need where they hadn’t before. They were very nice, but made it clear that there would be no effort to match other schools’ packages unless it was based on demonstrated financial need. Maybe in a close case, they would make an effort to find some more need, but our case was not close enough. Tough luck for us, but I can’t complain. It’s a principled policy and I guess it helps to make this great school available to the greatest number of qualified students. So he’ll either go to one of the other schools, which are very good, or we’ll just suck it up and borrow against the house.</p>