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Asking a college to review its offer
If your family's situation changed, or another college offered more, you can ask a college's aid office to take another look. AidAhead drafts a letter from the facts you enter and shows how that college takes requests.
Steps
- Tap Colleges, then the college, then "Build an appeal letter".
- Pick the school year.
- Tap "Add a change" and choose what changed. Enter the facts and amounts.
- For another college's offer, tap "From its letter" to use the numbers from a letter you saved.
- Read the letter under "Your letter". Tap Copy or Share.
- Fill in the parts in brackets: the student's full name and ID, and your name.
- Gather the documents listed under "Documents to attach".
- Send it the way the college asks, shown under "How the college takes requests".
Good to know
Only your facts
The letter states only what you entered, with your numbers, and the offer from the letter you saved. Nothing is made up or added.
Each college's process
For the colleges we've researched, AidAhead shows the college's own page for requests and what it said when we read it. For others, it links to the college's financial aid site.
Other colleges' offers
Some colleges review offers from other colleges, some only need-based ones, and some don't. When a college's page says it doesn't, the letter leaves that offer out and tells you why.
No promises
A college decides each request on its own. A review can leave the offer as it is.
Privacy
AidAhead never stores the student's full name or ID, and it doesn't send the letter. You do.