<p>Sooo i just got accepted to Cornell on Friday and I'm super pumped! I really really want to go. However, they are going to have to give me a good financial aid package for me to go. If they go by what FAFSA says i need to contribute, I think i will be able to go. Has Cornell been known to give aid that is in the same ball park as what FAFSA says, or is there a chance it will be way different?</p>
<p>It would be nice if for once people would try to look stuff up on their own. If you go onto Cornell’s website under financial aid it says Cornell meets complete need. No loans, nothing. This is based on your FAFSA and the CSS Profile and a form you turn into Cornell directly. By the way the last two forms were supposed to be filed like January 2. You can still do it, but I’d hurry up if you want any money.</p>
<p>According to the U S News College Rankings, Cornell was ranked #17 for financial aid resource rank. I also been accepted to Cornell and is nervous on how much my parents have to pay. I am sure the parental contribution will heavily influence them.</p>
<p>ok first of all, i have checked cornell’s website and i know that they meet what ever your need is. Second, I’m just asking if they determine your need the same way that fafsa does, because after you fill out fafsa it tells you what your contribution should be. Third, i filled out my financial aid paper work months ago.</p>
<p>Sorry Matt, some people on this site are really *****y.</p>
<p>And I think that they base most of their financial aid methodology on the FAFSA and the CSS Profile. I don’t think they have their own Institutional methodology. Congrats btw!</p>
<p>BTW, FAFSA’s aren’t due until May. You can’t even do them until your taxes are done!</p>
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<p>Not entirely true 
You can go ahead and submit your FAFSA using your 2008 return, then submit a correction when your 2009 return is processed. I had to do that one year when there was a delay in the completion of my parents’ tax return. </p>
<p>You are right in that the FAFSA is not due until May 1st. Although, if it can be helped, I would not wait until then. </p>
<p>To the OP: Cornell’s FA policy has changed drastically since I was there but, for what it’s worth, my EFC was usually $2,000 less than what FAFSA estimated.</p>
<p>Cornell gives out pretty good financial aid package. They use an institutional method and do not base it on just FAFSA. They do have an financial aid estimator on their site and you can try it out to see the ballpark figure you can expect from them. I did try it out for my son, and their EFC estimate is way lower than the FAFSA EFC number. Hope this helps.
<a href=“https://www.finaid.cornell.edu/apply/faestimator.cfm[/url]”>https://www.finaid.cornell.edu/apply/faestimator.cfm</a></p>