<p>I've been told by quite a few people that many universities will offer more money to a student if another college of near equal caliber has offered them a much greater deal of money. You know, kind of like a "match this offer" type of game.</p>
<p>I was accepted to UCLA and The University of Miami as my top two schools, with UCLA being my dream school. UCLA offered me a little less than 12k in grants and scholarships. Miami offered me a little over 29k in grants and scholarships. I know Miami is private and is not as recognized as UCLA in being a top-tier school, but it's still a good school. </p>
<p>While I'm perfectly content with going to Miami, I'm finding it hard to just give up on my UCLA dream like that, because of money. Can anyone tell me any success stories or even failure stories of trying to bargain with a university for more money? Do you think I have a chance at talking to the right person and getting more money from them? Any answer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!</p>
<p>UCLA won’t care what you got elsewhere. They mostly only give aid to low income instate students.</p>
<p>jnm –</p>
<p>“Dreams” are dangerous things!</p>
<p>P.S. As a taxpayer in CA, I don’t want my tax dollars going to support non-taxpaying, out of state students. Fortunately, the state agrees with me on this. I’m not picking on you, but please understand that MY high CA taxes are what makes UCs (somewhat) affordable to in-state students.</p>
<p>I am an OOS and was awarded 25K aid last month from Berkeley. Out of that 25K, 17K was free scholarship (sorry, taxpayers), and the rest were loan/workstudy. </p>
<p>I chose not to go to Berkeley cause it was still too costly, plus, I got better deals from schools that fit me better. Now, where does my scholarship go? I know that UCLA also offers scholarship to OOS’s. Any chances that the schoarship money that the acceptees give up -cause they choose other schools - might go to someone like OP? </p>
<p>I have no good answers but am just trying to help. </p>
<p>I would research more and try appealing, OP. Good luck!</p>
<p>17K was free scholarship (sorry, taxpayers)</p>
<p>That was probably from donors/endowment…not taxpayers.</p>
<p>Schools use modeling software to give them an idea of how many offers they can extend and what yield they’ll likely get. So, if a school can really only afford - say - about 100 scholarships - the modeling software may tell them to award 200 and about 100 will accept.</p>