How to Successfully Appeal a Negative Financial Aid Ruling

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In the world of college financial aid, there are circumstances when a decision is made about your college aid that is negative. For example, either your grades slipped and they suspended your financial aid, or a student conduct, sports or other issue has caused the aid to be suspended. There are variations across schools that will cause this to happen but there is a way to get reinstated or to get the rules to "bend" a little in your favor.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Step1

Make a list of all the college staff, starting with the person who signed the financial aid suspension, all the way up to the University President, including the head of the Board of Trustees.

Step2

Begin with a visit to the person who signed the financial aid suspension. Be at their mercy. Beg, grovel, plead, make promises, swear that you'll do better. Let them know that you know they have the power of personal discretion to turn your nightmare into heaven by changing the ruling. The fact is that they do have total discretion to do whatever they want, so do your best to plead their mercy.

Step3

If you don't get the financial aid suspension removed, then go up the list the plead your case, one by one, all the way up to the University President and Board of Trustees. If you do this with every staff person in that line of command, you will get reinstated. Initiative counts for 99 percent of success when attempting to get financial aid decisions reversed.

Step4

If you still do not get your financial aid suspension lifted, then it is time to call in the big guns--your parents. Have them follow Steps 2 and 3 and if all of that fails, they you start all over again. You will wear them down and they will restore your financial aid just to get you to stop coming in.

Tips & Warnings

Always be submissive and nice.
Dress in a tie and jacket for every visit.
Brush your teeth.
Take notes at every meeting of some type. If nothing else, ask for their email address, phone number, and best time to call them back.