<p>Overall, how is the financial aid at Cornell? Will Cornell match a scholarship offer from WashU?</p>
<p>^ @Brian98 - Cornell’s financial aid policy is to only match FA offers of prospective students who’ve been concurrently admitted to the following schools: any other Ivy League institution, Stanford, Duke, and/or MIT.</p>
<p>Here is a decent place to start if you’d like a rough idea of Cornell’s general FA practices:</p>
<p>[Financial</a> Aid Examples - Cornell](<a href=“http://www.finaid.cornell.edu/types-aid/financial-aid-examples]Financial”>Types of Aid | Financial Aid)</p>
<p>Ok, but what about in general? Are they pretty good at meeting need?</p>
<p>there is a financial aid estimator on the cornell.edu website.</p>
<p>there’s the estimator, but I would like to know if they are willing to negotiate</p>
<p>you can appeal a decision. You can share other decisions, but then it is up to them. Last year when I shared better offers from Dartmouth and Duke, they did not change our package. But the policy stated above was not yet in effect. They have a form that you have to fill out if you want to challenge a decision.</p>
<p>No, they don’t really negotiate. They meet full need, based on their institutional methodology. If one of the schools Colm listed made a better need-based offer, they will match it (for the ivies) and “try to” match it for the others. The packages that those schools offer are typically pretty comparable. They won’t match anything merit-based, and don’t ever give any merit-based aid.</p>