<p>i would kill to be in you admitted students position right now...well not so much kill =)//.but close</p>
<p>Didn't you get accepted to another ivy-league school?</p>
<p>lol what ?no im still a junior</p>
<p>edit...btw this is just some huge rant on how i want to go to cornell.</p>
<p>lol...oh...must have u confused wtih someone else!</p>
<p>Good luck next year.</p>
<p>hehe thanks...i cant help but be jealous of you guys that are totally done with this stuff...bahh.</p>
<p>Except some of us still can't get into Cornell, even though we're accepted.</p>
<p>Let's talk money, shall we? I don't get financial aid - my family is middle class. Thanks to that, I can never afford Cornell, even though they so blindly assume that my parents can just pay everything.</p>
<p>Let's not get hopes up or down - getting accepted is easy enough. Getting in is impossible for those who aren't getting aid or aren't rich.</p>
<p>damn souva...sorry for your situation and i might be in the same thing next year...there isnt anything you can do?</p>
<p>we've been there, beefs, and it makes senior year that much better.</p>
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<p>What was your aid letter like?</p>
<p>My family is middle class and we received a pretty generous FA package.</p>
<p>My aid letter offered me nothing. I do not qualify for aid. Therefore, I can't go to my favorite college because it equals more than $80,000 in debt for me (more than $60,000 of that debt on my parents alone). Let's not forget that student loans are limited, unfortunately.</p>
<p>o wow...so like...you cant go at all..did you try to appeal or w.e.</p>
<p>In my attempts at finding money, I've called, only to be told that only in a condition of strange new detail would any aid be granted. Yes, this means that a dream has been crushed and that I cannot attended a school I've worked so hard to get in.</p>
<p>It is evident that the definition of "financial need" is a very strange one. I can't afford Cornell. Doesn't that make me have a need?</p>
<p>Whatever the case, I don't want my story to stop your application. However, keep in mind your specific financial situation before getting your heart set on any school. College is a big investment that not all families can handle in the same way.</p>
<p>It is not the school's responsibility or obligation to make sure you could afford to go to that school. It is your parents' responsiblity to make sure you could go to the school you want to go to. If they did not put away enough money for you to go to the school you want to go, then they should have had that discussion way before you sent in your application. Cornell is need blind. If they determined that your parents could afford to contribute $X, and your parents decide that $x is better spent on (new house, new car, new business, vacation, or whatever), it's not the school's responsibility to make up the difference.</p>
<p>This sounds harsh and everyone's financial is different. But I am a parent and we have just made a hard decision to turn down a full merit scholarship to a good school for a dream school for our daughter. It is going to set us back a bit toward our retirement, but I would never have allowed my daughter to apply to any school that I wasn't willing to pay for.</p>
<p>Msouva is right - have a conversation with your parents on what you could afford before you get your heart set on a school. A sid note, if you want to go to Cornell so much, I would take out a loan to go.</p>
<p>20000/ year isn't bad at all</p>
<p>Whatever the financial status may have been, it was the deciding factor in my removal of Cornell from my college list.</p>
<p>I'm now going to go to Clarkson University in their Honors Program.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>OMG...i just read the things people did when they got accepted in some other thread...**** now i wanna go there more than ever</p>
<p>stop torturing yourself! spend this time on ec's or something that might actually help you get in. :)</p>
<p>"It is not the school's responsibility or obligation to make sure you could afford to go to that school. It is your parents' responsiblity to make sure you could go to the school you want to go to. If they did not put away enough money for you to go to the school you want to go, then they should have had that discussion way before you sent in your application."</p>
<p>It is their responsibility if they say that they meet 100% demonstrated financial need. As much as Cornell says it's affordable for everyone, it's hard to prove when you have accepted students turning it down for financial reasons alone. Some parents don't have extra money to put in, and some don't expect to contribute anything to their child's college education, and while that doesn't make it Cornell's responsibility to fund when parents don't feel like it, a student should be able to take on a reasonable package without so much debt.</p>