<p>There was a post here from someone who said that "his college" would yank the package of any applicant who directly mention's another's school's offer when requesting a review of the aid package. Sounded harsh to me. Can't imagine any college doing that. However, now that the admissions offers along with any aid and awards are being mailed, what do admissions and financial aid officers think about appeals?</p>
<p>More specifically, if a student whose clear first choice is a given school but the package is less than a comparable school, should this issue be mentioned? Do colleges want an opportunity to rethink someone's offer package under such circustances?</p>
<p>I frankly can’t understand how it would hurt … </p>
<p>If a student mentions other offers to me, I simply tell them that we are not in a position to match. I don’t blame him for trying!!</p>
<p>Kelsmom, does your admissions office ever try to work something out if the student has a stellar profile of the sort that the school wants to have.</p>
<p>If the student has a stellar profile, he or she would have been offered an excellent merit scholarship. That would be the best we can do as a public U with limited means … but we have some excellent scholarships. Our NMF scholarship is a full ride, so there would be no need to bargain on those. Other scholarships go up to full tuition. </p>
<p>We have two public U’s in the state that have better need based aid for 0 EFC students, and we can’t compete on the need based end … we just don’t have the money for that. So if the stats are stellar, the money is probably already there. It’s the ones with high need and not-stellar stats that often are the ones asking us to match offers.</p>