<p>How do I got about negotiating with a certain schools aid package? I got a surprisingly high loan. How can I humbly tell them that JHU is offering me a much better aid package hoping that they will lower the loan? thanks</p>
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<blockquote> <p>How can I humbly tell them that JHU is offering me a much better aid package </p> </blockquote>
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<p>Be determined, not humble. Be honest and open. Let them know that you'd like to attend their school as your first choice, but the difference in required loans between them and JHU is a problem that will cause you to attend the latter. This will be most effective if the school in question considers JHU to be a peer school (though in reality it is indeed the peer of any school in the nation).</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Would an Ivy consider a top LAC as a peer school?</p>
<p>It depends on the peer school as a top LAC is all relative. I do think that the Ivies they will negotiate with the "little ivies" (definitely Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, maybe Middlebury, Wesleyan) more than they will negotitate with a school that is a "top LAC". </p>
<p>My D is a sophmore at Dartmouth and I did request a financial review from them giving them the package that I recieved from Williams along with my reasons for the review. Dartmouth did meet the Williams offer.</p>
<p>However, both schools already knew that there is a large overlap of students being admitted to both shools. Richard Nesbitt, Dean of Admissions and FA at Williams even went on record that they know it is a 50/50 split when it comes to students choosing between Williams and Amherst/Dartmouth.</p>