<p>My parents make less then 30k a year, and my EFC is basically 0! I was accepted into both BU and Cornell. However, when I visited both...I loved BU and strongly disliked Cornell. Although Cornell is a great school, I can't make myself to like it enough to go. Now for the financial aid..</p>
<p>BU gave me 13k. That leaves me paying roughly 47k. The ironic thing is that..Cornell gave me 47k. Should I take on the debt that comes with BU, or go to a college campus that I strongly dislike?</p>
<p>What did you dislike about Cornell?</p>
<p>I am surprised that anyone would dislike the beautiful Cornell campus. I would choose Cornell.</p>
<p>Give Cornell a chance. If you don’t like it after a year or a couple of years, you can transfer to BU and you’ll still be in better shape than if you had never gone.</p>
<p>It depends. What is your intended major?</p>
<p>Tell your story to the financial aid and admissions folks at B.U. and see if they can give you more money. They probably don’t get very many students who want to pick their school over an Ivy.</p>
<p>This goes against my usual stance of choosing colleges based mostly on “fit”… but I suggest you go to Cornell… This is an absolute gem of a deal. Cornell for less money or BU for more money. I just can’t imagine seriously picking BU in this case. There is a good chance Cornell will grow on you and that you’ll like it. Often, you cannot get a good glimpse of the campus from just one visit.</p>
<p>This decision heavily favors Cornell. Far better job placement for far less money.</p>
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<p>Nope - you’d be the only one out there.</p>
<p>BU is nice but is not in the same class as Cornell. Take the offer at Cornell and be happy you have such a great offer.</p>
<p>Cornell is by far more prestigious.
Go to Cornell.</p>
<p>I know plenty of people who got into Cornell and picked BU over it (BU student here). I would however, agree with the advice that these people are offering you. I would first try and get more FA from BU - they likely did not expect you to favor BU. If you really can’t find any more money, please please please go with Cornell. Not only are the academics more renowned - it is much cheaper for you. The lack of debt alone is worth going to Cornell.</p>
<p>PLEASE TAKE CORNELL.
compare your love for BU to your love for your parents and yourslef (who would all be overworked to pay for your loan debts for BU) ;)</p>
<p>Your EFC is 0 and they want you to pay 47k/yr? That doesn’t sound right. If you really want BU, you should appeal.</p>
<p>I would agree about an appeal as something seems odd with your offer. It can’t hurt. The only bad news is that as tomorrow is 4/26 it is also quite unlikely that BU has any money left to move around. </p>
<p>That said, it appears that BU does not love you as much as you love BU. That should be telling you something.</p>
<p>EDIT: </p>
<p>This is a new poster. In another post, he/she mentions that he or his parents mucked it up and didn’t submit financial aid materials in time. Ballpark stats are that 50 percent of the students at BU get 20K in GRANT money (i.e. non-merit aid you don’t have to pay back). So … 13K probably is merit money. </p>
<p>AutumnApple also mentions that he/she applied to BU’s CGS program. I’m wondering if the poster is just messing with us. BU’s CGS program is the least competitive program at BU and that’s putting it nicely. That someone is applying to that program would (or could) get into Cornell is such an outlier as to raise questions.</p>
<p>**So, I smell a rat. A BU bound student trying to put his school on the level of Cornell. **</p>
<p>I really, really, don’t like the idea of someone coming in to a place who doesn’t want to be there, and wants to be someplace else.</p>
<p>That’s setting up a situation where the second something somewhat adverse happens there they will be whining about everything and poisoning the waters for everyone around them. It’s a mindset where someone is negatively predisposed towards their experience from the outset.</p>
<p>There have been some situations on CC where someone went to a school under this type circumstance, never gave the place a chance and predictably reacted very negatively to everything they didn’t like on the first place, and then transferred.</p>
<p>So all these people may tell you they would prefer Cornell, but the fact is you don’t, and you’re the one who will be going.</p>