Negotiating scholarship offers for an MA

[kasserole]

I've been accepted to my top choice, School A, with a 2k scholarship. School B and C gave me almost 20k. How do I negotiate with school A to give me more money using B and C as bargaining chips? Is this a thing that people do for MA programs? Thanks

[catcatcatdog]

Congrats on your options!! I don't know if people negotiate for MA programs, but I did for my PhD -- I just wrote to the director of graduate studies at School A and explained that School B had offered me about 10k more (I did have to send a PDF copy of my offer from School B as proof). A couldn't fully match B, but they did up my offer by 8k, and seemed to think this was a perfectly legitimate move.

[rising_star]