<p>Does anyone know if Harvard matches aid offered at Princeton? The offers only differ by $1500. If so, how would one go about obtaining that?</p>
<p>Contact the Financial Aid office and see what they can do for you. I have heard that they do generally attempt to match other need-based offers.</p>
<p>For peer schools like Princeton and Yale, Harvard will probably meet the aid package (considering they don’t want to lose potential students due to costs). Although, $1500 isn’t a huge difference between the aid packages, so Harvard may not budge much in this situation. </p>
<p>But, contact the aid office anyway and see. The worst that’ll happen is they’ll say no.</p>
<p>I’d think that Harvard would be even more apt to change precisely because it’s such an insignificant difference, rather than the other way around. But that’s just my perspective on it, entirely self-formed. If it were more significant, they would likely require further documentation of your financial situation to reconcile and explain the discrepancies in your offers.</p>
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<p>I agree: they don’t want to lose a student over so little.</p>