<p>It is a learning experience worth getting to sit down with a financial aid counselor and go over the figures and the methodology and try to negotiate the process. For that alone, the student should do this. Getting any real money out of the process is a very slim chance, in my opinion. </p>
<p>But, I did not think my college son would get some of the funds he has managed to get in the last three years and they have added up to a very nice amount. If he had not tried, he wouldn’t have gotten a dime of that money. We did not count on him getting it, however.</p>