<p>I'm totally paranoid that Cornell will rather take someone else over me because of my financial situation. I mean, my family has had a hard year, and we cannot afford all that much. We can probably manage about 12,000 (1/3 of income), but that's it. Is Cornell one of those schools that is genuinely need-blind or do they just say that to get more apps? I figured that if they were really need-blind, they wouldn't ask for financial aid stuff until after they accept people.</p>
<p>how should we know?</p>
<p>Cornell really is need-blind. My parents are divorced and my father forgot some tax returns. It wasn't until after I was accepted ED that they contacted me and said they couldn't process the information until they received them. So basically, I got in before they even touched my financial stuff. And my aid was actually pretty good. (Minus the loans I'm going to have.)</p>
<p>i really hope they are need-blind, i am from canada (half-foreign) and my parents got like 20k for me per year and i put that (that was stupid though). anyway, i really hope to get in :)</p>
<p>yea, you definitely shouldn't have put that...b/c I put 2,500 and they insisted that my parents would contribute 10,000</p>
<p>On your part 1 or part 2 (I forget which) you can check whether or not you will be applying for financial aid. I believe that will be seen by your admissions officers. That's not really going to hurt you at all, because such a large portion of applicants apply for aid, and there is no visible difference between a student from an inner-city family of 8 living on $40K/year and an upper class only child living on Park Avenue, NYC.</p>