Subject: Don't Lose Merit Scholarships

It's Financial Aid Awareness Month! Learn what you need to know about maintaining scholarship eligibility and appealing financial aid.

Not All Scholarships Are Automatically Renewed: What You Need to Know!

Getting offered a scholarship is great—but keeping it for four years isn't a guarantee. Click HERE to sidestep the common pitfalls of scholarship renewal with tips from the former head of academic recovery at a top university. 

You Can Appeal Financial Aid

If your student's financial aid offer isn't as high as you hoped, you can submit an appeal to be considered for additional money. Click HERE to learn what a financial aid appeal is, and how to write a successful letter of appeal.


Looking for help? R2C can review your appeal letter and give you expert feedback before you submit it to the school. Learn more HERE.

Use Our Compare College Offers Tool to Help Appeal Financial Aid

For the past few years, through our Compare College Offers Tool, we've worked to bring transparency to how colleges are awarding financial aid. We're accomplishing this with your help—crowdsourcing and sharing student acceptances, merit scholarship offers, and need-based aid. 

 

If your student has received any acceptances, please share them now and see real data from this year and past years. You can use this information to decide if your student should appeal for additional financial aid.

(Information shared is anonymous.)

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Debbie Schwartz

Founder, Road2College

I'm a parent, like many of you, navigating college admissions and paying for college. With an expertise in personal finance, analysis, and marketing, I'm working to give families the information and tools to make smarter financial college decisions.