International Admissions/Financial Aid Statistics???

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>Anyone know how many internationals they accept in total (preferably Engineering specifically)?? </p>

<p>I can only find how many enroll. <a href="http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000176.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://dpb.cornell.edu/documents/1000176.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Anyone know how many of the accepted students applied for FA (or any numbers that may give an indication)? </p>

<p>I don't need exact numbers; I'm just desperate for the slightest indication of the likelihood of getting FA (and how much) as an ED acceptee (I won't know until April).</p>

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<p>Ok, does anyone know the answer to this simple question at least: </p>

<p>Is INTERNATIONAL financial aid need-based or merit-based? </p>

<p>Logically, they only give FA to the top of the accepted pool, but I think Cornell claims to be need-based even on the international level.</p>

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<p>it is need based. It is just not granted to everyone.</p>

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<p>if it is need-based, then they just raise the requirement to get FA? So they just give it to the people who really need it? </p>

<p>But if that’s the case, then that means most of the people who get FA would have a low EFC, but they give so little to each person that people with a low EFC wouldn’t have enough to go. </p>

<p>So nobody ends up getting sufficient FA. </p>

<p>Yes, it’s need-based, but is it also tied to merit too (like they look at your admissions application and your EFC)?</p>

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<p>It’s need based in the sense that “you only get what you need” as opposed to a merit based scholarship which can cover your entire tuition, even if you make 500k+.</p>

<p>It is merit based in the sense that they will only give these need-based financial aid packages to those who they really feel should get them.</p>

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<p>So out of the admitted pool that applied for FA, they choose who they should give FA to (based on Common App + supplementaries). Then they give need-based FA to those people, and depending on how much the admissions want that student, they meet x% of that student’s need? Or </p>

<p>So if the admissions really wanted that guy, full need would be met? And if the admissions wanted that guy (but wasn’t like the very top of the pool), then partial need would be met?</p>

<p>Or they just meet full-need for the top x% of the accepted pool and don’t meet anyone’s need partially? Because according to CB, if they give FA to someone, they meet that person’s full need.</p>