"“If you or a teenager you know are admitted to a name brand / expensive / rich college and their financial aid package isn’t enough, write them and ask them for more money.
Mention the other schools you were admitted to and that you received strong financial packages from them. DO NOT mention specific numbers unless it’s a named scholarship — eg “presidential” or “provost.”
At least five of my students this year got between 10-20k ‘extra’ in scholarship money just by soliciting for it"
It's actually true for many products. Many cheap supermarket house brands are often made by the big premium brands just in a different package. Some hygiene products are available from dozens of different brands but in reality, there are only two companies in the whole country that make it and with the exception of some slight changes to colour and fragrance it was all the same stuff.