scholarships

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<p>anyone know of good scholarships to apply for? i'm broke and i need $$</p>

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<p>hmmm…</p>

<p>wouldnt this affect your finaid at cornell?</p>

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<p>probably, but it should be better overall</p>

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<p>lol</p>

<p>try fastweb.com </p>

<p>but other than that…i’ve only seen like research/internship scholarships and money for URM to prepare for grad study</p>

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<p>Unless you can get a scholarship that either
a) pays in cash
b) pays more than the amount of grants that you are receiving from Cornell</p>

<p>then scholarships are not worth it.</p>

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<p>Many do pay in cash, its kinda not scholarship season though now. Scholarship apps are generally due anywhere from october to may, and the grants realize themselves a few months after that. The only real way to get cash reliably and quickly is to get a job.</p>

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<p>Not necessarily. I remember asking about the Robert C. Byrd scholarship on this forum and people wrote that it would only cut into my grant, but my FA package shows that I’ll be getting the money in addition to my original grant. So, you never know…just need to look around a bit for the right scholarship.</p>

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<p>is Robert C. Byrd scholarship from an entity outside of cornell? or is it an endowed/named scholarship?</p>

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<p>How sure are you that your grants weren’t reduced by the same number the scholarship was awarded?</p>

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<p>Its something awarded outside of cornell (I believe its a NY state thing, thought it might be a nation scholarship)</p>

<p>I would imagine it would be possible to check because I think that the scholarship is something that is awarded conclusively after april 1st (and thus does not effect your inital fin aid package). If the grant from that point till the actual grant changes by less than the value of the scholarship, then you know that you did actually get some money from it. </p>

<p>I know that for a friend of mine at harvard, they let you get up to $4000 in external aid before scholarship money starts decreasing your grant money, but I do not know cornell’s policies on this sort of stuff.</p>