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Merit aid of the sort we've been talking about on this thread is not to be found at the Ivies. Cornell has a few small scholarship programs, but they give only "book" money (<$1,000/yr). Some Ivies will bump finaid awards for applicants they really want, but others (Harvard I know for sure) refuse to do this. But all in all, you're not going to get a significant merit award to a school in the Ivy League; it's prohibited by the League's admissions standards.
On the other hand, I know some "not poor" students whose Ivy finaid rivaled their merit aid + finaid at other private schools.
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