What do I need to use Financial Aid Appeal?

What changed; The numbers; Available documentation; The school and deadline.

Is Financial Aid Appeal free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Financial Aid Appeal

Q: How do I know the Financial Aid Appeal output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: The change and its date are in the first two sentences; Every number has a then/now pair and a document; The ask is a specific dollar amount and aid type; One page; one human sentence; zero adjectives doing evidence's job.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-17 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-students

Write a financial-aid appeal or scholarship request letter that aid offices act on — factual, documented, and specific about the ask. Use when asked to appeal my financial aid, write a scholarship letter, ask for more aid after circumstances changed, or respond to an aid decision. Produces the appeal letter with the changed-circumstance case documented, the specific dollar ask, the evidence list to attach, and the follow-up plan.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸What changed — job loss, medical costs, family change, competing offer — with dates

▸The numbers — original aid, current gap, family contribution then vs now

▸Available documentation — termination letters, medical bills, the competing school's offer

▸The school and deadline — appeal windows are short and hard

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓The change and its date are in the first two sentences

✓Every number has a then/now pair and a document

✓The ask is a specific dollar amount and aid type

✓One page; one human sentence; zero adjectives doing evidence's job

✓The deadline and follow-up dates are real calendar dates

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not write a hardship essay — offices process documentation, not narrative

Do not leave the ask vague — "whatever is possible" is a request for the minimum

Do not exaggerate or shade the numbers — offices verify, and a caught embellishment ends the appeal and taints the file

Do not ultimatum with a competing offer — preference plus facts, never threats

Do not miss the window while polishing — a good letter today beats a perfect one after the deadline

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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