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<p>Ah…I think I understand. </p>
<p>When your financial situation changes midyear, you discuss this with each financial aid office…and it is called a “special circumstance”. Financial aid offices are given a lot of discretion in dealing with special circumstances. Some will discuss them and others will not. That is up to each financial aid office. Also, the extent to which these offices offer additional aid mid-year due to financial issues is also variable and is at the discretion of each financial aid office.</p>
<p>So…it is very possible that one school will work with you and another school will not. It is possible that the school that is willing to work with you has not already exhausted its resources. Perhaps the other one has. </p>
<p>If you filed the FAFSA with both schools last spring, you should at least be eligible for Stafford loans from each school. Beyond that, your federal eligibility would be limited (you said earlier that you didn’t qualify for a Pell grant). There just isn’t all that much “federal” grant money out there. </p>
<p>Some schools have more grant money than others to begin with (institutional grant money…not Pell grants). These schools might better be able to make an adjustment to your financial aid mid-year. Schools with less institutional resources typically set an amount per year they are willing to disperse in financial aid. It is possible that the second school (the one that won’t work with you) has simply exhausted its institutional grant funding. And for institutional funding…they answer only to themselves.</p>
<p>In any case…good luck to you. I hope that your special circumstances appeal to the school that has indicated it WILL work with you will net you some help.</p>