Anyone got their FA $ yet?

<p>I'm waiting for my FA letter... Did anyone get it?</p>

<p>Not yet, I'm in upstate NY.</p>

<p>Sigh. What's up with Cornell? They said that THEY MAILED IT OUT FRIDAY... SO IT SHOULD BE COMING SOON!!!!!!</p>

<p>We got ours on Monday.
No grants, just loans and w/s.</p>

<p>yea, I got mine, but it's not that good.</p>

<p>i love the FA office !!! thankyou if not for them i wouldnt be able to afford going to Cornell...</p>

<p>If my family tries to negotiate with the FA office, could I possibly receive more aid?</p>

<p>eek. . . .it has the most loans out of all my financial packages.</p>

<p>I recieved mine, and it DEFINATELY makes Cornell appealing from a price standpoint...However, is Cornell an institution that progressively increases the amount of loan money you are required to take out each year after sucking you in with a bait-and-switch package? Have any current upper class Cornellians experienced a steady loan package, or have they increased it on you each year?</p>

<p>I'm still waiting...impatiently like an American haha! Well... from what I know, Cornell's FA tends to be not so generous to the middle class. But if you're on the lower end of the economic spectrum, they tend to give you more money!</p>

<p>I'm sorry but I must mention this... proper spelling is definitely...</p>

<p>Are you guys getting your final financial aid packages? Or are they tentative ones like I got in December (ED)?</p>

<p>I got mine, and it is awesome! I got 2 renewable scholarships (John something and Presidential something), and 2 sweet grants. I only have to pay $5,000 a year. Mmmmm. Unfortunately, I have 2 years of built up credit at the University of Washington, so it will be pretty tough to let go of that and all of the time I've spent. Sure would be nice to have my bachelor's at 20. Too bad I can't sell my financial aid to you guys lol, 1/2 price.</p>

<p>yeah i got a check for $15000 in the mail yesterday...;)</p>

<p>I'm So Mad.... I Sent My 2004 Returns And They Said I Didn't!!!!</p>

<p>does cornell typically give a lot of loans, because i got the same financial aid total packages from there and vanderbilt - but i got $7000 more in grants from vandy, with that amount being all loans from cornell.</p>

<p>Cornell doesn't give nice FA to middle class. It literally stands by its word on need based aid. So if you send them a FA package for reconsideration, they tend to try and adjust it or sometimes not bother. That's what I think.... Ask starmel18 or quynh2007 or norcalguy or perro etc. wharf rat too i guess</p>

<p>I'm so torn up. I really love Cornell , even though I fell in love with Cornell after I applied, because I applied for the heck since I dreamed Ivy League but was sure I would be rejected. although my family makes around 120,000 income a year, middle or upper middle class you would say, but my parents cannot contribute more than 20,000 to me a year. The total cost for CU is $43,866 , right? Cornell gave me a total of $11,005 in loans (W.D. Ford & Cornell Key Bank Stud. loan) and W/s. They expect my parents to contribute $32,860, of which I can contribute 2-3 Kfrom summer earning, but my parents cannot give me an additional 10,000 a year. Can I appeal or neogotiate with the FA office? Will it work? I guess I'm in the middle class crunch, oh boy no scholarship or grant, all loan and w/s. What should I do?</p>

<p>The only thing you can do is to appeal your financial aid award. Send your financial aid offers from other colleges to Cornell and tell them I really wanna go to cornell but those other college's offers are changing my mind. And also.... you should apply to outside scholarships.... Outside SCHOLARSHIPS DO NOT ELIMINATE FAMILY CONTRIBUTION. So either way, your parents have to shell out 20 - 32 K a year. That's from my estimates. OUTSIDE SCHOLARSHIPS ONLY ELIMINATE SELF HELP!! REMEMBER THAT. SO CALL UP CORNELL.</p>

<p>Dude, if your parents make 120 g's a year and there's ANY school they cant afford to send you to, then they are the ones who need to go to college....maybe take some financial management or accounting classes. Not to be a jerk, but there are kids who find a way to get themselves through Cornell with families that make 30, 40 thousand a year or less. I mean i know that CU is more generous to people who truly need it, but still.....</p>