Asking for More Financial Aid? Here’s What To Do.

College-bound students and their parents are busy comparing financial aid offers from colleges; soon these families will raise the question, “Can we ask for more money?”

College-bound students and their parents are busy comparing financial aid offers from colleges; soon these families will raise the question, “Can we ask for more money?”

Letters of appeal have poured into financial-aid offices this year at colleges around the Philadelphia region - and the country - as cash-strapped families seek more money to keep their children in school or to get them started.