grovestreet

Cornell is stingy!!!

Elgguj

very trueeee

khrushchevtm

Let me see, you just got your aid package announcement?

Tsenguun

I strongly disagree!!!

freshnup

our son got more $$ from Stanford, plus the weather's better. opens up another spot on the Cornell wait list for you guys.

IHateS@T

everyone that doesnt go doesnt necessarily opens up a spot cuz cornell is expecting about 50% yield so they accepted more than they can take

khrushchevtm

Alright, after getting my finaid award (FINALLY, form after form after form after form AFTER form), I must strongly disagree.

I feel a little bit overwhelmed now though, and worried about their generosity. What if I bomb completely??? BUT, eh, so it is.

yousonofatree

The new financial aid initiatives helped so much. I was always worried about going to a private school over the UC's, but the FA package made it so that Cornell costs wayy less for me.

whereswallace

they are stingy!!!!

dewdrop87

An alumna's observation: They're stingy if your family income is over $120,000, generous if your family income is under $75,000 and just manageable if you're in between.

Then again...they have to provide FA for 10,000+ students.

Made_in_China

What sucks is that my final FA offer was $4000 below the estimate they gave me. Did they really have to change it?

thekristin1129

well at least they don't expect you to take out $20,000 in loans per year

cuapplecider9

lol. if you think cornell is stingy now, wait till you've been there a few years. They nickel and dime you for EVERYTHING. My favorite thing is the book buy back at the end of the year. They make it convenient by putting together your booklist, and then they carry the books in the Cornell Store but they are sooooo expensive. Then what sucks is by the end of the year, the Cornell Store advertises that they will give you so much money back for your books. this is what happens:

1.. The instructor decides to not use that book anymore and to use a newer edition. meaning that that 90 dollar book you bought, you're getting no money back
2. They don't give that much money back and they don't accept a lot of books back too. So you just have to be lucky in order to actually get a lot of money back.

I could go on and on. I like Cornell but it is indeed very stingy

collegeconnecs1

Cornell meets 100% of student need and has always been and continues to be the most generous re: financial aid in the Ivy League. If you research and compare the financial aid policies and practices of all Ivy League schools, you will find this to be true. And, as far as the comments made about how expensive books are at Cornell, the Cornell Campus Store has a book buy-back program for work-study students who work there which made my books free every semester and was an incredibly generous, cost-saving benefit that I received.

Ealgian

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Oooh, nice info. But is the work-study program available only to students from a certain economic background?