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Schools:The Duke MBA, Class of 2009
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22 Mar 2007, 20:01
Hmmm....
I called and asked who to speak with regarding financial aid issues and was given the name of an assistant director for financial aid, or something like that. The scholarship letter (it was actually an email) was "signed" by the admissions director. The email was from "admissions-info@." I get that you should call for these negotiations, but I just can't pull that off. I have a beautifully worded email (merci, monsieur); I just need that nice "to" field filled out.
Perhaps tomorrow I will call and ask more specifically for someone I can talk to about merit-based scholarships. Yeah, I thought about it some more and I totally can't call and talk about it. I am SO looking forward to that negotiations class. I once talked someone DOWN from the initial offer she'd given me for the car I was selling. And then in my first-ever (and only) salary negotiations, I immediately caved on the first offer and then tried to back-track. I got nowhere. You can take the girl out of her small midwestern town....