lildreamerqueen

I have to disagree. My brother is going there this fall for hotel and he's only paying a few thousand a year. Out of state too. It's FA + scholarships + (i think) students loans.

Caillebotte

Cornell is stingy as balls. $145 for a gym membership? $50/month for cable?! Various other ridiculous administrative fees. All this sh it is free at most other schools that have similar or even lower COAs.

snowman1206

yeh
the gym part is what i really dont get

dewdrop87

Some schools work the gym fee into your tuition and so you have to pay it even if you never intend to use it...at least Cornell gives you the option of not having the membership.

brokenpiano

i personally don't find the gym membership fee too unreasonable. what i do find somewhat unfair is that [i think] ra's still had to pay for a gym membership and for part of room or board last year. but the dorm tour guide for cornell days said they're changing it for this fall.

vladsinger

I do find it quite annoying that Cornell works in so many ways to charge extra for things. Considering my family is forking over pretty much the full ~53K out of pocket since I got screwed over due to my visa status, I wish that they would give us a break.

To be honest, it's probably more of a psychological thing - because the extra fees really aren't significant compared to the massive cost of everything else - but it does negatively impact my perception of the school as a whole when they keep adding just a little bit more for services that I would have expected to be included.

SummerSnow

I think what you guys forget, is that cornell is a land grant university. it doesn't have the same amount of available fund as other universities