You have spent countless hours visiting various schools, narrowing down your choices to a handful of top picks, filling out and agonizing over applications, and waiting impatiently for the acceptance letters to arrive. Now comes the hard part.

Because you don’t want to graduate from college saddled with crushing debt, much of your decision on where to attend college may be based on the size of the financial aid packages you were offered. If your top choice(s) did not open up their wallets wide enough, and you still have time to meet your award letter deadlines, all is not lost!

Under certain circumstances, you may be able to appeal the award: Read the rest of this entry »

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