Aid award ranking worksheet
Paste each college's award letter as one dated line, and see which offer is really best once loans are split from grants — and the dollar gap your appeal has to close.
1 · Paste each award as one dated line — school, offer date, total, grants, loans
FIRST-LOAD
Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the aid award worksheet: your offer lines and the gap you need closed stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.
Perspective: Before: the reader compared offers by sticker total. After: they can name that one school is $3,100 cheaper in real grant terms to the aid office, because they ranked the lines themselves.
2 · Read the aid award worksheet
Paid layer: the appeal file
one-time step · the free reading above stays complete
Free tier
- one complete ranking
- the loan-burden split per school
- state link to take to a parent or counselor
What $9 one-time adds
- every offer kept on this device
- printable comparison sheet for the aid office call
- CSV of school, date, grants, loans and gap
A professional-judgment appeal or match negotiation that lands shifts thousands of grant dollars a year; independent counselors charge $150–$400 to assemble the same comparison and letter, and the schools that match offers ask for exactly this ranked gap.
Local history (this device)
- No saved runs yet — your first run files here.
Your purchase is handled through secure checkout. When you return, your extras are ready on this device — no account, no fuss, and your work stays private in this browser.
Boundary and sources
This aid award worksheet works only on the award lines you paste you paste. It does not promise any college will change its offer, does not file the appeal for you, and does not advise on FAFSA eligibility rules. The figures describe what you supplied, not what is true in the world. Confirm anything you plan to act on with each college's financial aid office, and a school counselor for deadlines before you rely on it.
- Every figure comes from the award lines you paste you paste; nothing is looked up, scraped or asserted as verified.
- Method: each line is scored on its total, grant and loan figures with loans weighted against the offer, and schools are ranked by the share of the award that is grant aid
- Sample values are labelled samples — illustrative by design, not your data and not a quotation of any organisation's policy.
Mechanism: competence-autonomy-loop