negotiating financial aid?

[frangeo27]

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Is it possible to negotiate for some more financial aid after you receive your award letter? I will begin Med School in August, and right now my top choice (USC) essentially gave me nothing but a subsidized stafford and told me to take out loans for about $69,000 the first year (that's their budget). That seems so ridiculously high to me. Do you think it's possible to negotiate, something, anything with them?

 

[njbmd]

Moving thread to Pre-allopathic as this is a Pre-Allopathic issue. Allopathic medical students may respond to this thread in that forum.

 

[Sol Rosenberg]

You can try (and it doesn't hurt to try,) but realize that you really have no leverage, and are negotiating from a position of huge weakness.

Sorry, but this is one aspect of the process that TOTALLY SUCKS.