<p>Will a school typically match a financial aid offer from another school? ie: If I received more financial aid from BU than Northeastern, would Northeastern be willing to match BU's offer?</p>
<p>No. Not as a rule, and not if you make it a challenge. It has to be approached v-e-r-y delicately and even then the school might decline. If you’re lucky, they might come up a few dollars, but a full match is rare, from what I have seen. My son did get more money from a small LAC, not well known with an Ivy league school to show, but that wasn’t even a full match, just to give you an example. </p>
<p>The best way I can suggest, is to find out who your admissions officer was who admitted you. Call to thank him/her personally, let him know how much you so want to go there, and how you love that school, …but there is this matter of money, and another like school that you are not as enamored with has given a better fin aid package, and ask for advice as to how to approach the financial aid office, who to speak with, any help your ad officer can give you in this matter. Then you call financial aid, armed with the info from admissions. But, you are not likely to get a full match unless there has been some error in the calculations. Maybe, maybe, a thousand or two more.</p>