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<p>I think you’re looking at this question the wrong way, jratliff. For you, this may be a question about what you deserve–and maybe that’s the way everyone should look at this situation–but for the college, it’s about economics–and that’s how I think the college (the people with the money) will look at it. </p>
<p>They’ve already got you. And evidently they got you on sale, so to speak. But when they got you, that freed up the additional money they might have spent on you to use elsewhere. And I’m sure they’ve already used it on somebody else’s scholarship.</p>
<p>You say that you could just transfer to some other college that would make you a better offer, but that may be harder than you’re thinking. Very few colleges have much merit aid for transfer students. In addition, it would cost you time, money and inconvenience to transfer. And the exact monetary costs of transferring are hard to know up front. Besides the costs of applications, test reports, etc., there’s also the possibility that you’ll lose credits in the transfer, which would also cost you money.</p>
<p>From the college’s perspective, it’s an issue of institutional budgeting. They budgeted for merit aid in the class that you entered with, and they projected their costs for that merit aid over four years. They’ve spent that money. There is new merit-aid money coming into the pipeline, but it’s not earmarked for your class; it’s for the people who will be entering next fall as freshmen.</p>
<p>So, yeah, you can ask. Indeed, you should ask; asking doesn’t cost you anything. But I don’t think they’re actually going to come through with more money, for these reasons.</p>
<p>Sorry.</p>