<p>P.S. I honestly have an inexplicable urge to contact all other Indian supermen who studied at top US univs to give such endowments :P</p>
<p>i know that cornell just redid its aid this year and my familly definitely benefitted; my only concern is that they might go back on this in future years…</p>
<p>have they released any statement about whether or not they will continue this policy for several years… yeah its probably not going to happen that i will know.</p>
<p>cornell is not my first choice but this kind of aid makes it the obvious choice, but i dont want to give up first chioce if my aid is going to disappear after one year…</p>
<p>i submitted a non custodial waiver because i have no useful contact with my dad( he ignores our calls and wont do anything for me) and he wont help pay for college they have received it along with a letter from my counselor they are currently reviewing it and i was wondering is their a chance that they will not accept my waiver because if they dont their isnt really a way to get the information they need from my dad</p>
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<p>My suspicion is that financial aid will likely be the last thing that a lot of these schools will cut. That said, anything can happen in the current economy.</p>
<p>kking1400, i had the same problem and they accepted mine. i didnt even have contact information from my dad so yeah. my letter that had to be included was from my counselor, who knew nothing of the situation besides what i told him (‘i dont know my dad, can you write this waiver letter?’). i dont think theres much of a chance itll get rejected. if theres a problem, they’ll most likely ask for a different additional letter to back up your story.</p>
<p>I was very fortunate with Cornell’s FA. My family is upper-middle class but I also have a twin brother going to college next year and a sister already in college so despite my family’s pretty good income my parents were still not willing to pay much for tuition. Luckily Cornell gave me a 40k grant which makes the decision to go there alot easier for me. Does anybody know around how much Cornell grants can drop if a sibling graduates college because my sister is graduating next year and I’m hoping that won’t dimish the grant too much</p>
<p>bump wqeifwee</p>
<p>My brother dropped out of college during the middle of my senior year and Cornell took away $3,000 from my grant money in the middle of the year and I had to scramble to find a loan. That was probably the only time I ever truly hated the school :)</p>
<p>Okay so I contacted Cornell today and after telling them that UPenn gave me much better FinAid, they agreed to match it (getting rid of the loans in my package and adding some money to the grant). However, does anybody know if they will return to the old FinAid package next year? Because it would be horrible if I turned down Penn, who will give me comparable aid all four years, for Cornell if the latter will lower my package once I’m already a student and they don’t have to worry about losing me…</p>
<p>Is anyone else still waiting for finaid?</p>
<p>circumlocution2, I am.</p>
<p>I got an email the day I got my admission packet saying that they received all my documents and they were reviewing my award letter and that they would send my financial aid package as soon as possible. I’m getting worried…</p>
<p>I’m getting worried too… my parents won’t even let me register for Cornell Days until I get the package.</p>
<p>Aww. I’ve already signed up, so if they give me a horrible financial aid package, I’m going to be -devastated-.</p>
<p>We’re still waiting, too. I called the finaid office on Monday and they said the letter would go out by the end of the week.</p>
<p>@NJBKitty
so Cornell is one of those school that will match other’s financial aids? because northwestern gave me about 20,500, but cornell only gave me 12000</p>
<p>No it isn’t.</p>
<p>Cornell won’t even consider matching financial aid unless it’s from another Ivy, MIT, Stanford, or Caltech, since other schools are allowed to give merit based aid.</p>
<p>ok, so I emailed the fin aid office asking about how I submitted my application the saturday after i got my acceptance letter and asked when i would probably receive my package.</p>
<p>They said I might have to make my decision to enroll or not without seeing the package since they havent processed anything yet. </p>
<p>If I enroll and then see that i cant afford it after they send me my package, can i still withdraw or appeal the aid?</p>
<p>@ananya77041</p>
<p>You could try, but like chendrix said, I don’t know if they would budge. When I was talking to the Cornell FinAid office originally, telling the woman how my family really can’t afford the package I was given, she was pretty apathetic. But as soon as I mentioned UPenn and their aid package, she was willing to help out…</p>
<p>ok, so I called today, and it appears they never got my 2008 returns. my dad’s salary dropped from 156k to 132k from 2007 to 2008. will this have a big impact on my aid?</p>
<p>Maybe, I would guess depending on the circumstances surrounding that drop but Idk, I’m just as clueless… I’m almost done with my To-Do List… Last thing gets faxed in today…</p>