Leveraging a scholarship??

I know I've had zero luck in the leveraging department.

I was pretty much told that while school X and Y are peer schools, school Z offered me things that X and Y could not and that I was "being shortsighted" in thinking that a difference of 30k or so over a lifetime should be a driving factor (even though I explained that I already about about 50k in undergrad loans). I was taken aback by that direct (unprofessional?) of a response. I get that schools think that they are better than the rankings and that they offer something unique but in reality job placement stats and salaries don't lie. And this IS a professional degree that requires people to leave their full time jobs for 2 years.