On getting additional merit aid

Colleges and Universities A-Z Northeastern University
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Hi

My son has been admitted to NE for this coming fall sem, with some merit scholarship. Given his stellar grades in the first-sem of his final year, we would like to explore any additional merit aid possible. How do we go about this? Should he contact the univ, or should I as the parent?

thanks
-br

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Either is fine, they just want matriculation and what’s best for their budget. I would wait until a few things happen:

  1. You have all options on the table if possible.
  2. You can safely say that if they were to offer X much more, you would be committing. If a college gets such an offer and they deem it sincere, this can sometimes work.

This is unlikely to work in my opinion, but it can’t hurt to try.

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Thanks PengsPhils.

Our state schools (CA) admits/rejects come early Mar.
Would it be too late to wait till then, to check on this with NE ?

-john

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I think early March would work. Lots of kids won’t hear from schools until April 1. April is when the “fun” parent/child money conversations happen. :slight_smile: