Xeo78 wrote:
Hjort wrote:
If you are not going to attend unless you receive more aid from the school, you have little to lose and much to gain by approaching them for more money.
Hjort,
Do you have anything to lose either way? What can the school do, retract the offer? If you ask nicely that is..
I have a friend at Thunderbird right now that leveraged the scholarship offer game against Simon. He was upfront about him desire to study at T-bird, but just couldn't foot the bill. After three months of haggling, T-bird called his bluff (for personal reasons he never wanted to attend Simon) and gave him a potential merit based scholarship contingent on the results of his first semester. Nevertheless, he still enrolled. Business is business, he just wasn't a good negotiator at the time.