Does Cornell apply need-blind policy to internationals

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<p>Does Cornell apply need-blind policy to international students? OR in other words, do they consider the ability to pay when their review the application?</p>

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<p>Yes they are need blind for international admissions.</p>

<p>However they do not meet full need for all international students.</p>

<p>Therefore you may be accepted and be asked to pay full price, even if you applied for aid.</p>

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<p>Are you sure??? I think they aren’t need blind for internationals?</p>

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<p>Ok, chendrix, so basically your saying how much aid I would get depends on how much they want me, right?<br>
so i guess it wont hurt my chance if i show them my parents super low income, am i correct?</p>

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<p>I do not believe Cornell is need blind for international. What they did was to include other internationals in the pool for Mexicans and Canadians. Of course, that pool is a lot smaller than the pool for American residents. It would hurt your chance if your parents have very low income, unless you are a super applicant.</p>

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<p>oldfort, where u get this info from? I’m really confused rightnow. I called the FA office up this morning and was told that they are 200% sure that need blind policy applies to internationals. I can’t tell if they lied to me or not but well, honestly idk. Any admitted internationals help me?</p>

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<p><a href=“https://www.finaid.cornell.edu/apply/international.cfm[/url]”>https://www.finaid.cornell.edu/apply/international.cfm&lt;/a&gt;

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<p>It doesn’t sound like need blind to me.</p>

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<p>well yeah, but i dont care how much money they have for internationals, what I want to figure out is do they consider my ability to pay when their reviewing my applicaiton</p>

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<p>Yes, yes, yes. What part of “limited basis” is not clear to you. If they have limited money, then it is an issue.</p>

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<p>I don’t believe your FA need is taken into account for the purpose of admissions.</p>

<p>However, this means you may be accepted but not given sufficient financial aid to actually attend.</p>

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<p>There was a series of e-mail correspondences last semester with prospective students and the admissions and financial aid offices asking these exact questions:</p>

<p>From their own lips, they said:
a) They are need blind when it comes to admission to the university (as with US Citizens)
b) They do not guarantee full need met aid for international students (unlike with US citizens). Although now with a mixed international/canadian/mexican aid pool, there might be more resources available to non-north american internationals.</p>

<p>So I don’t believe oldfort’s answer is correct. This has been an issue for some time now, but I believe the correspondence last year cleared it up.</p>

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<p>nice, thanks guys</p>

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<p>chendrix is correct - int’l students may be admitted BUT they are not guaranteed fin aid - and yes, I do KNOW this.</p>

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<p>It was need-blind for EDers at least. The FA is due February for internationals and they didn’t download CSS profiles until really late so they apparently didn’t even get to see your FA.</p>

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<p>You guys probably are right when it comes to admission, but amount of aid they give someone would depend on how strong an applicant is, whereas they would meet American resident applicant’s full need if admitted.</p>

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<p>^probably</p>

<p>Speculation:</p>

<p>Only the top percentage of accepted students will get aid (though not all of them will get full need). </p>

<p>And out of those people who get FA, the stronger the applicant, the more the university tries to meet the need.</p>

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<p>I would tend to agree. The stronger the applicant and the more the school wants him/her, then more likely the amount of aid they will be given.</p>