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<p>Not entirely true. Highly selective schools will sometimes sweeten their finaid offer if you can show that a peer school, say another Ivy, is offering more based on the same EFC. But I doubt they would consider Delaware to be a rival or peer school. </p>
<p>After you get the other offers this Friday you might be in a position to, if not outright haggle, at least raise issue with Yale and see if they’ll move in your favor. But by no means should you ever “make stuff up.”</p>