<p>Hi guys,</p>
<p>So I have been accepted as a transfer student to a school and they are offering me approximately $1000 less than my current school. I'm not sure how to approach the financial aid office at the new school to ask them to up the amount of aid. Any suggestions on the tone and wording of an email that I could send out? </p>
<p>Thanks very much.</p>
<p>Transfer students often get less aid. There is a whole thread about it a few threads down. To be honest, they really won’t care that your current school was giving you more. Each school has its own matrix for awarding aid. You can certainly ask, but unless some financial circumstance has changed since you filed FAFSA, it is unlikely you will get any more. (The Pell grant should be the same everywhere, so if you have that and it is different, then ask why)</p>
<p>Thank you for your reply swimcatsmom.</p>
<p>I just figured that it would be worth emailing them to see if they could match the $1000 anyway. I fully understand that transfers almost always get less financial aid than first year students. Still, I would like to send an email but am having a very hard time figuring out how to word it.</p>
<p>Sure, it’s worth Alan email, and $1000 would be doable for many colleges. Is this merit or need based aid? Is it a school that meets need and was your need met?</p>
<p>I encourage you to give it a go. Sometimes a school would be able t scrape up some additional amount. If it were $10K, you were needing, I would not think you have much of a chance at all, but for $1000, maybe the school can find something.</p>