Does Cornell give varying amounts of Financial Aid Grants on a first come, first serve basis? They’ve emailed me saying that I’m missing a part of my FinAid application (which I am not, and will contact them soon regarding this issue). I submitted my CSS profile to them as soon as I could, way back in October.
They say that my financial aid application cannot be reviewed until my “missing information is completed.” Does this mean that I’m technically no longer among the “first” applicants, since they haven’t even reviewed my application yet, and therefore I’ll get less money than I should have? Or is Cornell one of those schools that doesn’t go on a first come, first serve basis?
The Verification Worksheet.
So send it in…with any supporting documents they are requesting.
As I mentioned before, I’ve already sent in everything, including that, so I plan on contacting them regarding the issue. My question is that since it’s so late in the game to be applying for financial aid, will I bet getting less money than I would’ve normally gotten, had I never had this “missing information” problem early on? Or is Cornell FinAid not first come first serve?
Really, you should know Cornell is a Meet Full Need school.
This is not the hill that you want to die on. The net-net is the school states that they don’t have it. Submit the form again.
Get the name of the person that you will be sending the information to and request a confirmation that it was received.
Until the school gets the verification form, you can not get a dime of financial aid.
Institutional aid at places like Cornell is not “first come, first served” in the sense that they rank everybody who met the deadline. They will consider you to have met their FA application deadline as long as the initial documents (FAFSA, Profile, anything else they initially require) were in on time, which it sounds like you did. Selecting you for verification does not take away your “on time” status.
Now, once you have been selected for verification, you do need to timely respond with everything asked or you do risk losing your “on time” status. There may be deadlines to respond in any communications they send you. You need to meet those.
I see. I contacted them, and they claimed to be missing one page of the Verification Worksheet (which is odd, considering the fact that I submitted all of them). I resubmitted the missing page though, so I’ll follow up and see if they receive it this time around. Thanks guys.