<p>As if Congress passes some bill it would affect FA now. :> </p>
<p>Agree with @GA2012MOM, I don’t think any bill passed would affect FA until at least spring semester. In any case, I have to agree with the majority of the posters above me. Just kindly contact Cornell and decline the offer of admission.</p>
<p>I don’t know if you understand. This is early decision. How am I supposed to simply decline their acceptance?</p>
<p>I’m not saying that congress will affect FA. I’m saying that they are required to make a decision by the end of the year, and that decision will instantly affect my financial situation. In order to withdraw from Ed, I’m going to need proof that I need more aid, and the 2014 tax forms that will be affected by the decision will be my proof, if the decision works out.</p>
<p>Sorool they will take your word for it that the FA doesn’t work for you. You won’t have to prove anything. I’d think you have ot let Cornell know way ahead of having the tax forms done anyway, isn’t the reply due soon?</p>
<p>Congress isn’t passing anything until next Jan and even then big things won’t be scheduled for some time. It’s unlikely to change 2014 taxes which is what 2015-16 FAFSA is based on. The Cornell FA is not going to be based, in the next two weeks, on what congress might do next year and how that would change your taxes.</p>
<p>Just suck it up and go to Cornell.</p>
<p>I read your previous thread here and it’s hilarious:
<a href=“Should I withdraw from Cornell ED? - Cornell University - College Confidential Forums”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cornell-university/1710033-should-i-withdraw-from-cornell-ed-p1.html</a>
You dislike Cornell’s “terrible weather, isolated location, and its brutally rigorous curriculum”, yet what type of weather do you think UChicago has? Are you aware that UChicago’s curriculum is/was so difficult that a massive amount of its student body dropped out or transferred not that long ago? (How did you think UChicago got the reputation of “where fun goes to die”?) It’s the only university I know of which lists the accomplishments of drop-outs in its alumni magazine because they form such a large part of the U of C’s alumni base.</p>
<p>Seems that you’re getting worked up and about to make a decision based on a mixture of speculation, stereotypes, and hearsay. I agree with a previous poster that there seems to be a lack of critical thinking going on here.</p>
<p>I know that if I was Cornell and you turned down ED when our fin aid met your need, I’d call UChicago and urge them to pull your admit.</p>
<p>Congress is on winter recess for the next 2 weeks. If I understand correctly, they passed a 2 week extension of many expired tax breaks just before recessing and sent to Obama for signature. They will take that up again in January to try for longer extensions. But I think that will be for 2015 taxes. Though Congress has been known to pass some late retro tax rules changes that throw the filing season into a mess, so I am not 100% on this.</p>
<p>I know this thread is about what to do now and not what you should have done. What to do now should include a long hard look in the mirror and some reflection about who you are and who you want to be. What your ethics are and what you think those ethics might bring you in your future.You might draw up some quite serious New Year’s resolutions based on these reflections.</p>
<p>“I don’t know if you understand. This is early decision. How am I supposed to simply decline their acceptance?”</p>
<p>No, I don’t think <em>you</em> understand. This is early decision. If you sincerely do not want to go there, you will have to suck it up and have an actual conversation with an actual person and explain your mistake. If you can’t do that, you’re going to Cornell. Poor thing. Best of luck to you and happy holidays.</p>
<p>You made a decision. Now live with it.</p>
<p>Hopefully you’ll learn to take decisions more seriously in the future.</p>
<p>It’s not as if this is life or death in any case.</p>
<p>This is ludicrous. You apply ED to a non dream school (let me guess, you wanted the admission bump?), you get in, but now you realize Early DECISION means?</p>
<p>Look, you have a couple of options: let Cornell know now before they give you any FA offer and they realize you never applied in good faith and risk losing admission to Chicago; or you can wait a few weeks, get the FA offer, and see if the offer is good or not. If it’s not adequate, great, you dodged a bullet this time. If it’s an adequate offer, well, see above.</p>
<p>The point is, there is no magical painless way out of this mess you created (unless Cornell’s offer is inadequate). Call Cornell and talk to your admissions rep. Tell them about your doubts. They’re human, maybe they’ll be sympathetic (word of advice - skip the act of Congress BS).</p>
<p>This situation was made possible by UChicago that now has a better finaid than ED Ivies while still practicing non-restrictive EA to get more applications. Shame on them.</p>
<p>I can’t really blame Chicago here. If UChicago is someone’s dream school, then applying ED to another school that the student doesn’t even really like is a strange choice and not something that Chicago really could have controlled. The only reason the FA package is even an issue is because the student thinks he needs to give evidence/a reason to get out of the Early Decision agreement; I get the feeling that even if the financial packages were dollar-for-dollar identical he still would prefer Chicago over Cornell.</p>
<p>I am amazed that the OP doesn’t seem to get that what she has done was wrong and continues to make excuses. If my kid did this, I would make sure she was making phone calls to Cornell with a major mea culpa. Also, does the OP know there is a Chicago adcom here on cc?</p>
<p>Another reasons this is an issue is that the student did NOT completely submit her financial aid documents to Cornell ON TIME. She therefore didn’t get her financial aid award when she got her ED acceptance…as most applicants ED did. She now has two weeks more to make her “decision”.</p>
<p>To the OP…in my opinion, the right thing to do is call Cornell BEFORE they go to the trouble of crafting your ED financial aid package. Tell them, you made a mistake and wish to withdraw your admission offer there. If you wait U til you actually GET that financial aid offer it will MORE look like you are gaming the system (which I think you are doing anyway). </p>
<p>So…Monday morning…9:00. Call Cornell…and tell them you are not able to attend there.</p>
<p>Otherwise, from my seat, it looks like you are waiting to see if Cornell’s offer is a better one.</p>
<p>And to the poster above…why shame on U of Chicaco? I say…shame on this student.</p>
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<p>This situation was made possible because a family chose to violate the rules for applying ED.</p>
<p>Life is full of choices and it’s not unusual that choosing one thing requires giving up something else. UChicago has every right to change their marketing to attract applicants from the Ivies. It may require students to make a difficult choice, but it’s hardly the fault of the college if students try to have it both ways. </p>
<p>This is really sad. OP if you can’t even pick up a phone to call a real live person, you are going to have MAJOR problems getting through a university education. You can’t text your way out of this one. </p>
<p>Didn’t your high school counselor explain that you will self-advocate in college? No one is going to hold your hand and fix your messes. </p>
<p>Grow up, be a big girl, and be prepared to go to a community college because it sounds like you are too chicken-fit to do the right thing, by having some integrity, and calling the Cornell office immediately. </p>
<p>The longer you wait, the better chance of both schools’ rescinding their offers. You can’t come to California because our schools won’t give you a dime.
Problem solved.</p>
<p>Was not getting FA docs to Cornell on time a conscious choice?</p>
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<p>No, they did not violate any rules. Cornell does not prohibit ED applicants from applying EA to other schools.</p>
<p>OP assumed that chances to be accepted to Cornell are low so she needs help from ED.
OP assumed that chances to be accepted to UChicago EA are low
OP assumed that chances to be accepted to both Cornell ED and UChicago are very low.
She gambled and won the biggest prize. Now she can weasel her way out of Cornell acceptance and go to UChicago. This is how UChicago wants it based on their policies. UChicago wants the most desirable students. If they had REA then some of them would not apply.</p>
<p>I had assumed OP is a guy…</p>