Negotiating funding offers
One school has made me an offer of admission with 50% tuition, which is still too expensive for me to afford. However, I am still waiting to hear back from the other schools I applied to. If I want to negotiate funding with the school that made the offer, is it crucial that I respond right away and politely beg for more funding, or can I wait to see if other schools make better offers so that I can bargain by saying "University of XYZ offered me full tuition," etc. ?