Financial Aid Planning - Four Steps to Reviewing and Appealing Awards

The final step in the financial aid process is to closely review your financial aid award letters. Most families assume these letters are the final offer from the school. While in many cases this is true in many other instances an aid award can be increased substantially.1. Compare Estimates with Awards: The first step in this process is to take your financial aid estimates that you developed during your planning process and compare them to the actual financial aid award. If the percent of need met and the relative mix of aid, grants and scholarships versus student loans, is fairly close it

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