<p>I'm a reporter for The Daily Princetonian covering an interesting story. (Please see last paragraph for info on contacting me about this.)</p>
<p>Two Yale students recently gave speeches at their high school about what they called "financial aid leveraging." This process involves getting into a school that is known for generous financial aid, like Princeton, and then using that offer to then get the other schools where you were accepted to match the package.</p>
<p>This has evidently worked for several students at Yale, who had taken their Princeton financial aid documentation from their acceptance letter and got an equivalent offer from Yale, often amounting to a savings of $15,000-20,000 over four years.</p>
<p>My question to everyone on College Confidential is, is this something that you would consider doing, and is it the right thing to do to get better financial aid?</p>
<p>Is this unfair to other people applying to financial aid at say, Yale, who don't have an offer from Princeton and can't get the Yale financial aid office to lower their amount?</p>
<p>If this causes students who would have loved to attend Princeton to lose out to someone with better stats who is using Princeton solely to get better aid somewhere else, is that right?</p>
<p>If you are interested in giving us responses to appear in an article in tomorrow's issue of The Daily Princetonian, please e-mail <a href="mailto:news@dailyprincetonian.com">news@dailyprincetonian.com</a> with your contact information and a reporter will get in touch with you shortly.</p>
<p>We look forward to hearing your opinions!</p>