<p>A friend brought a whole book that documents all her family expenses (with receipts) to appeal Cornell financial aids. We live at an expensive area, and the expenses show that her daughter could not attend Cornell with the financial aids. The Cornell financial aids official showed the book to other parents and said that this was exactly the document every appealing family should bring to Cornell for appealing. However, Cornell did not increase a cent of her daughter aids. The girl had to transfer to another school. She attended Cornell during her freshman year due to higher financial aids because her brother was in college. When her brother graduated, the aids dropped so much that her cannot afford. </p>
<p>I agree with Cortana431 that appeal is useless at Cornell unless there are some significant unexpected changes. Cornell is a relative “poor” school among the top schools and has to use some of its money to match better financial aids from the other 10 schools. Cornell also selects some students for better financial aids. For others, it s hard to get better aids by appealing.</p>