<p>Cornell is stingy!!!</p>
<p>very trueeee</p>
<p>Let me see, you just got your aid package announcement?</p>
<p>I strongly disagree!!!</p>
<p>our son got more $$ from Stanford, plus the weather’s better. opens up another spot on the Cornell wait list for you guys.</p>
<p>everyone that doesnt go doesnt necessarily opens up a spot cuz cornell is expecting about 50% yield so they accepted more than they can take</p>
<p>Alright, after getting my finaid award (FINALLY, form after form after form after form AFTER form), I must strongly disagree.</p>
<p>I feel a little bit overwhelmed now though, and worried about their generosity. What if I bomb completely??? BUT, eh, so it is.</p>
<p>The new financial aid initiatives helped so much. I was always worried about going to a private school over the UC’s, but the FA package made it so that Cornell costs wayy less for me.</p>
<p>they are stingy!!!</p>
<p>An alumna’s observation: They’re stingy if your family income is over $120,000, generous if your family income is under $75,000 and just manageable if you’re in between.</p>
<p>Then again…they have to provide FA for 10,000+ students.</p>
<p>What sucks is that my final FA offer was $4000 below the estimate they gave me. Did they really have to change it?</p>
<p>well at least they don’t expect you to take out $20,000 in loans per year :(</p>
<p>lol. if you think cornell is stingy now, wait till you’ve been there a few years. They nickel and dime you for EVERYTHING. My favorite thing is the book buy back at the end of the year. They make it convenient by putting together your booklist, and then they carry the books in the Cornell Store but they are sooooo expensive. Then what sucks is by the end of the year, the Cornell Store advertises that they will give you so much money back for your books. this is what happens:</p>
<p>1.. The instructor decides to not use that book anymore and to use a newer edition. meaning that that 90 dollar book you bought, you’re getting no money back
2. They don’t give that much money back and they don’t accept a lot of books back too. So you just have to be lucky in order to actually get a lot of money back.</p>
<p>I could go on and on. I like Cornell but it is indeed very stingy</p>
<p>Cornell meets 100% of student need and has always been and continues to be the most generous re: financial aid in the Ivy League. If you research and compare the financial aid policies and practices of all Ivy League schools, you will find this to be true. And, as far as the comments made about how expensive books are at Cornell, the Cornell Campus Store has a book buy-back program for work-study students who work there which made my books free every semester and was an incredibly generous, cost-saving benefit that I received.</p>
<p>^</p>
<p>Oooh, nice info. But is the work-study program available only to students from a certain economic background?</p>
<p>I have to disagree. My brother is going there this fall for hotel and he’s only paying a few thousand a year. Out of state too. It’s FA + scholarships + (i think) students loans.</p>
<p>Cornell is stingy as balls. $145 for a gym membership? $50/month for cable?! Various other ridiculous administrative fees. All this sh it is free at most other schools that have similar or even lower COAs.</p>
<p>yeh
the gym part is what i really dont get</p>
<p>Some schools work the gym fee into your tuition and so you have to pay it even if you never intend to use it…at least Cornell gives you the option of not having the membership.</p>
<p>i personally don’t find the gym membership fee too unreasonable. what i do find somewhat unfair is that [i think] ra’s still had to pay for a gym membership and for part of room or board last year. but the dorm tour guide for cornell days said they’re changing it for this fall.</p>