<p>A parent posted yesterday that her daughter was asked to send them and, and she was ultimately rejected.</p>
<p>That parent's daughter probably applied to either a small school, a school that doesn't receive many offers for financial aid, or a school that has it systematically done with little human interaction. I know this is sort of wishful thinking (even though I've been admitted to Stanford SCEA and would be very very happy to go there) but I think it's only logical that they won't ask for info you're not going to be admitted, especially for a school of Cornell's size+they have an individual finaid app. But, I guess we'll see in a few weeks.</p>
<p>WHY would Cornell prepare 32,655 financial aid packages, only to get rid of the vast majority of them?? It's completely impractical. I got this letter as well and I am really pumped right now.</p>
<p>i think this thread may be of some interest to all of you here:</p>
<p>there does seem to be some correlation between asking for FA papers this late and ultimate acceptance...and I guess some schools are just more direct than others. i'm trying really hard not to get my hopes up too much though, haha.</p>
<p>Fred:
No, they applied to Cornell.</p>
<p>I was deferred ED from CALS and did not receive a missing financial aid materials form. However, since then, I have submitted a letter of intent/continued interest, two additional recs (one from a Cornell alumni - my AP physics teacher) and my AP Bio teacher and have approximately a 97 UW GPA for my midyear (higher than my 94 UW average for 9-11th and probably top 1 or 2 in the class w/ most rigorous courseload). Last week, I also received a request asking for FA papers. Hopefully, this is a good sign...I really do not know what more I could have done. We'll find out in a few weeks, good luck to all :)</p>
<p>Bashi are you referring to Chedva? I PM'd her and she was not referring to Cornell, she was referring to Amherst. Her D did not apply to Cornell.</p>
<p>I just did a little celebration dance around my house. I am now thoroughly convinced that I have been accepted. Nobody try and ruin this high ahah</p>
<p>Not everyone applies for financial aid, I think there are a lot of kids that do not require financial aid.</p>
<p>True, and most people probably have their financial forms in so they wouldn't have the opportunity to receive the letter. We can hope though right?</p>
<p>I posted this in another thread already but I might as well do it again since the topic of this thread is very similar.</p>
<p>During the ED process, I made a thread in early December about missing financial aid forms and asked a number of applicants who were missing them to indicate whether or not they were contacted by the financial aid office. If I remember correctly, the 2-3 people who were contacted were all accepted (I searched for their names in the ED results thread). I then looked up the results for some of the applicants who were not contacted by the financial aid office and found one who did not get in. The rest either didn't post their results or I never found them. Just based on this, there appears to be some sort of connection between the financial aid office and the admissions office, at least as far as ED is concerned. It might be different for RD, but I highly doubt it. Having the financial aid office estimate packages for every applicant to Cornell seems highly impractical.</p>
<p>True Dat Yeaaaah I Am So Excited</p>
<p>i did not receive any letter in the mail.
hopefully its not the only sign of acceptance =/</p>
<p>Wait everyone who got one of these letters post your stats so we can see if it is reasonable to assume that we are admitted.</p>
<p>3.8 GPA
Unofficially number 1 in class
34 ACT
790 Lit, 730 Math SAT II's
3 Sport Varsity Athlete (not recruited)
Editor in Chief Newspaper
etc.</p>
<p>You might as well start a new thread.</p>
<p>Good call.</p>
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<p>hmmm, this seems to make sense. Yay, I'm getting excited now cause I got one!!!! Now, my spirit will have to fall a greater distance when april rolls around.</p>
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<p>I'll contribute.</p>
<p>hah! so not sending something on time might bring you the early results?</p>
<p>Yessir, let this be a lesson to next years applicants. After decisions officially come out, we'll make a new thread for people who got these letters to post what their results.</p>
<p>*what their results were.</p>
<p>I bet there's going to be a bunch of CC'ers next year who leave out a file on purpose just to get this letter haha</p>