<p>i heard if you apply ED and get accepted, you dont get much financial aid??</p>
<p>no. Think about this logically:</p>
<p>You need $20,000 FA (assume you'd get it if you applied RD and were accepted)</p>
<p>You get accepted ED, and Cornell gives you $12,000 FA. </p>
<p>Scenario #1: You don't matriculate-you have this option, ED, if you really can't afford it; Cornell's yield goes down; Cornell's rankings go down.</p>
<p>Scenario #2: You matriculate. Your family is trying to find $8,000 somehow. You work mad hours at a campus job, and your family is overstressed and stuff because of the finances. You drop out after 1st semester or freshman year, and go to a State College for mad cheap. Cornell's freshman retention rate goes down. Cornell's rankings go down.</p>
<p>It's in both your best interest and cornell's best interest for you to get enough FA. Alot of people I've talked to said they got MORE than they expected ED. The general concensus is not to worry about your FA ED versus RD.</p>
<p>How generous is Cornell compared to Princeton?</p>
<p>I thought USNews took yield out of its equation?</p>
<p>You really can't beat Princeton for FinAid. There are lots of threads about how good Princeton is for FinAid.</p>