<p>So I was offered $6,000 a year from a public state university, along with a good amount of financial aid which brought what Ill have to pay to around $15,000 in total.</p>
<p>If I show another private school this information, will the perhaps consider giving me more aid or scholarships? If so, how should I go about this?</p>
<p>Thanks guys.</p>
<p>Not likely, unless you are a compelling student that the private university really wants.</p>
<p>As a rule, what Polarscribe says is true. But it never hurts to let a school know, especially if the gap is not that huge. My son was accepted to one of Cornell’s land grant colleges which gave him an in state rate. That parlayed into an increase in some merit money from his first choice private. But the competing school was ivy and my son was already given a merit award and admissions felt that the additional award to make the cost more comparable was worth it since he guaranteed he would come if more funds came his way. It was not a huge difference either.</p>
<p>Schools are less likely to match an offer from a school they do not regard as a comparable.</p>
<p>Be sure to ask nicely. You are asking for a reconsideration. Don’t make it sound like you are pitting two car salesmen against each other.</p>
<p>cpt:</p>
<p>It was my understanding that only Cornell was the only Ivy to offer merit money. Is that incorrect?</p>