<p>I know a male URM with stats similar to “Applicant 2” that was accepted to Cornell last year. Of course, his URM status helped since male URMs with high stats are highly desirable by top elites.</p>
<p>But, what was surprising was that his FA package from Cornell was not affordable. Divorced parents, mom had a modest income, dad made about $17k. The student was a twin, so 2 in college! We really thought that with twins and the NCP dad’s low income, that Cornell would only really consider the mom’s income and expect very little. Yet, that was not the case. Even an appeal got nowhere.</p>
<p>On another note…I don’t like that when there’s divorced parents, each parent isn’t given his/her own “family contribution” by these schools. Instead, there is just ONE combined family contribution and then you have divorced parents arguing about who is supposed to pay what. </p>
<p>Anyway…he went to MIT. Better FA package.</p>