<p>Hey guys,</p>
<p>So I was accepted to Cornell as an international incoming freshman (RD). I just got an e-mail from Cornell saying that they can't give me any financial aid.</p>
<p>While this breaks my heart, it was also expected, so I guess it's a bit better. Has anyone come across this in the past and have any suggestions for alternate funding?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>I got the same email. I feel like crying. :(</p>
<p>Why do they do this year after year? Don’t they understand how heart-breaking it is?</p>
<p>How many others have got this email this year?</p>
<p>Same situation here.</p>
<p>It is heartbreaking indeed. When I got the acceptance letter, I thought I would also be given financial aid.</p>
<p>BTW, are you guys put on waitlist or simply told you will have no financial aid? I am put on a so-called “financial aid waiting list”, which I’ve never heard of. Anybody knows what’s the chance of getting aid eventually?</p>
<p>thats it no Cornell for me now.</p>
<p>@DerekChiang</p>
<p>My letter doesn’t say anything about a “financial aid waitlist”! What exactly does your letter say?</p>
<p>It basically says that they have placed my name on the waiting list for financial aid awards, and they will reconsider my FA application again, “should one of the candidates to whom we have awarded aid decline our offer.”</p>
<p>Ah, so it’s like: people-who-got-aid > people-on-aid-waitlist > people-denied-aid</p>
<p>So that makes me a third-rate acceptee. Heh.</p>
<p>I also got put on the financial aid waitlist.</p>
<p>Hey guys - what were your family’s yearly income?</p>
<p>im one of those lucky people at cornell who got the international scholarship (back when they awarded 10-15 per year). two of the students that were there during the reception (there were 12 of us) had gotten off the waitlist. the admissions officers talked about their story and how they had been writing many heartfelt emails back and forth to the international admissions/financial aid office. and finally cornell felt like there was only one option, which was to award them the scholarship. so my advice is to start a conversation with them, explain how passionate you are about cornell, how much you want to attend, your plans of what to do here, research, student organizations etc. they feel good (don’t feel bad) when they justify offering a scholarship when they know that the student will have great impact on campus either academically or extra-curricularly. also say how badly you need the aid (but they probably do know that you badly need the aid, they just didnt offer any aid)</p>