Nope not yet
Have any accepted students gotten their financial aid yet?? I logged into the student center and it still says “inquiry access denied” for aid year 2018. Not expecting much $$ but hopefully I’ll know soon either way!
Was anyone else’s financial aid calculator and reward significantly different? 
I haven’t received my financial aid yet.
How do you notify your current university that you are transferring out?
Just got my financial aid. Very disappointed but also not surprised.
@Praelu8 My school’s online portal has a “university withdrawal request” page, maybe check if yours has something similar. Or you might have to go through the advising office.
@aihcxx - Very disappointed??? Why?
Does it vary significantly from the online calculator on Cornell website?
@aihcxx im thoroughly surprised. i knew i wasn’t going to get much but they literally told me i don’t qualify for need based financial aid AS IN i didn’t get a penny. I at least thought they’d through me a thousand
Wait so it’s true? If you meet all the requirements, you’re in? that’s fantastic. It just seems too good to be true.
@igaspard Same. I knew that my family’s income was probably still too high, but our financial situation has changed a lot in the past year (sold the house, parents divorced, new job) so I was hoping that there was a chance we could qualify. Getting told outright that they’re giving me absolutely nothing was a little painful. My sister is currently a junior in high school, so maybe I’ll get some need-based help when she goes to college.
@cricketfan I never trusted the calculator in the first place because my family’s financial situation is weird- my parents filed joint 2015 taxes but finalized their divorce right after that, so our FAFSA was mostly estimates and not at all a reflection of our current situation. Lots of calls back and forth to various financial aid offices trying to sort out our forms, guess it was for nothing. I tried to run two separate calculators but it was not accurate and got too confusing.
@igaspard - Did you run the numbers on the Cornell’s online calculator ( http://finaid.cornell.edu/cost-attend/financial-aid-estimator ) . Did you not qualify based on that also?
@aihcxx - So sorry to hear about your parents. I know that this ‘non-offer’ from Cornell must feel like a double whammy.
That settles it for me. While I was leaning towards Community College for my freshman year, I was still toying with the idea of going to a 4-year university where I have been offered admission. With the experience of the two of you, CC is the only logical option for my family, financially. The Cornell online calculator shows that I could get some decent grant but now I don’t trust it anymore.
While I hope for the best, I must be prepared for the worst.
@cricketfan I think I made a mistake in my last post with the tax years- parents divorced (which was absolutely the best decision for everyone involved) after filing LAST year. So it wasn’t as much of an immediate double whammy as it was a long, slow wait to see if separate incomes and a loss of assets (paid-off house) would be a help or not. I would say that if your financial situation is relatively steady year-to-year and you can enter accurate data into the calculator, there’s no reason not to trust it. CC is definitely a good financial decision though.
@aihcxx - Thanks for the reassurance. I had guessed that you were talking about 2015 taxes (filed in 2016)
So far my family’s financial situation is fairly stable and predictable so I hope you are right about the calculator. Still Cornell cost will be a good chunk of change (even with the estimated grant) so CC is a safe bet for me.
Thanks again for your help in answering our questions here.
Do check in once in a while to give us tips on what to do/not-do as you navigate your sophomore year.
@puppyluver36 - Was your FA offer significantly lower than the online calculator on the Cornell website?
@cricketfan yeah by like 20-30k
@puppyluver36 - That sucks. I will brace myself for this next year. At least FA news won’t come as a complete downer, now that I have your data point.
On a side note, did anyone here apply for any outside scholarships in the past year while waiting for the Cornell decision? If yes, then can you share some pointers on what worked for you guys?
I plan on using all my spare time in the next 12 months to apply for as many as I can. Not sure of the hit-rate though.
@puppyluver36 @aihcxx How did you see your financial aid?
@throwaway2101 They emailed me.
Did anyone try to log onto decision.applyyourself and press forgot pin and entered their email to see if their decision was ready? Not sure if it works, but I know a couple people did it last week
I just got a “Transfer Option” letter from HumEc for Spring 2018. It outlined a minimum GPA and some courses I would have to take and said I would have to do a new design supplement with the new application. Do you know if fulfilling all of these guarantees admission? Or does it just give you priority in their review of regular transfer applications?
@ruby21 - Everything that I have read and understood in even communicating with the Cornell admission officers indicates that this is a guaranteed admission if you meet the requirements. They will not explicitly say that because technically it is not because of the conditions of GPA and other things (e.g. no criminal activity).
Still it is best to do the following after you accept the offer:
*) Read the instructions for your college very carefully.
*) Pay attention not just to the minimum GPA requirement but also requirements such as no grade less than B.
*) Identify the classes you will need to take for your Freshman year at a university or Community College and get it approved by the Cornell consular.
Then work your butt off in the next year to exceed those requirements by a wide margin so that there is no doubt about letting you in.
I am in the same boat as you and there is also a CC thread for the Guaranteed Admission 2021 where you can look up messages.
Good luck