Received my FA today. Unfortunately, it was the worst package of my “100% need met” schools.
net price = COA - grants
primarily considering the following,
Cornell: net price of 41k (+ 7.5k loans)
Vanderbilt: net price of 31k
Rice: net price of 38k
This is without the National Merit Scholarship at Vandy, which would replace work study, reducing Vandy down to a net price of 29k/yr.
From Cornell’s FA website, they would strive to attempt to match offers from other Ivies, Duke, Stanford, MIT, excluding all the other great non-ivies. Considering Cornell/Vandy/Rice are peer schools, would Cornell still increase grant/ lower loan to bridge the gap between itself and Vandy? Anyone have any experience with this in the past, successful or not?
You can only ask. I have known kids who got some concession from Cornell with a Vanderbilt counter. But I’ve seen Cornell simply refuse even when the offer is from other Ivies. It all depends upon the specific circumstances. Can you not get the National Merit Scholarship at Cornell?
Last year, someone I knew tried to get CMU, a school that actively encourages those who have better offers to submit them for a possible match, to match Vanderbilt, could not get them to budge.
I was just wondering if any of the accepted students here have received their financial aid decisions. Are they sent by e-mail or by post? I’m an international student, by the way.
@hagzzz , I suppose you can mention that “15,16,19 usnews, 14.9, 11, 14 acceptance rates,
Vandy and rice have higher sat ranges…” to Cornell’s financial aid.