Negotiating MBA Scholarship Offer

On the same topic. What's the best way to negotiate anyways? Let's say before paying the deposit?
What all tips and tricks can we use?

Yes, once you accept and put down a deposit you lose leverage here and should probably just move forward without negotiating. Congrats on receiving an offer!

Hey Rohit6 and luckymba:

If you want some specific advice about how to nicely negotiate your financial aid package, please read over what my business partner – Adam Hoff – wrote on the Amerasia Consulting blog.

5 Tips for Negotiating Your Offer of Admission — Amerasia Consulting Group

Today's blog post is about negotiating your offer of admission ... except that it's not.  Because "negotiation" is not what you do when it comes to securing more financial aid from a business school.  The term of art for what you are going to be doing is "asking."

Let us explain...

Source: 5 Tips for Negotiating Your Offer of Admission — Amerasia Consulting Group - <https://www.amerasiaconsulting.com/blog/2011/03/21/negotiating-the-offer>

My take on this topic is in line with the rest of the comments here. First you are NOT negotiating but simply asking a school if there might be any more they can do. You are in a better position here if you have NOT already paid your deposit AND if you have a better deal from a similarly ranked school. And then you have to be exceptionally NICE and polite about it- you explain your situation and your real needs and if you have it- the other offer that is so tempting... but then you explain you want to just see if you can find out if the school you want more can possibly match what you have elsewhere- and how that would make your financial situation better for x reason... As long as you are polite and don't treat the school like you think you deserve more or that you are playing schools against each other...just see if you have any wiggle room. I think situations like this are better done in a call- maybe use email to set up a time to talk. And be sure the first thing is how excited you are to attend this program... and then explain your situation... like another similar ranked school has offered this .... and you feel like you'd like to at least check to see if there is any flexibility there. Then you wait... and you are polite and gracious through the process... and who knows... something good might happen but as long as you are not aggressive or impolite about it, no harm should happen either! If you would like to walk through your messaging with people who were on the adcom side before talking to the actual school- we at Stratus have former adcom people and we can do that in a very small amount of time... so to find out more on this... go to this link: https://stratusadmissionscounseling.com/ ... b-visitor/

congrats