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• Adrienne shares why financial aid is important to her personally
• Adrienne tells us what SAI and EFC are, and she explains these terms and how they are calculated
• Lisa and Adrienne have a good conversation about why financial aid is so confusing, especially when you are talking about colleges that require the CSS Profile
• Lisa and Adrienne talk about a school with an expensive sticker price, which may end up costing the same as your state school
• Adrienne talks about appealing an aid award
• Adrienne talks about how important it is for a family to be specific in their request for additional money
• Adrienne gives a very concrete example of how a conversation for a school to reconsider their original financial offer that is productive looks like
• Lisa asks Adrienne what is the best way for a family to initiate an appeal for reconsideration for more money, and Adrienne shares some of the different approaches that different schools use
• Adrienne talks about how a family can know how much merit aid they can expect to get from a school
• Adrienne talks about how more and more colleges are doing an early

You can also listen on Episode 539, and Episode 541