I got a call back from Cornell about my deferral. It’s a pretty personal call if you went to the info session. The guy who I talked with was Dr. Scott and he said he remembered me and my family from the visits. If anyone seeing this as a 2021+applicant: if you can, visit the campus and go to the info session!
Hey, does anyone know what the actual, concrete financial aid numbers for Cornell will be based on? I filled out CSS, and the result cuts it close for my family’s ability to pay. But I know I will be filling out FAFSA soon…so which of these forms will yield my actual EFC? I have heard FAFSA is less intrusive financially (doesn’t consider your primary home as an asset, the way it should be in my opinion…) and therefore can be more generous. Was CSS just a way for Cornell to provide me with preliminary numbers to consider, and won’t actually be used to calculate my real financial aid, or do they use a combination of CSS and FAFSA? Did CSS try to predict the FAFSA numbers in order to create more accurate preliminary financial aid numbers? Does EFC typically go down after the FAFSA is in, or is there usually no change?
For international admitted students does anyone know when the declaration of finances form for 2016 will be available? Need to send it for visa.
does cornell require students to minor???
^No.
@CCSenioritis Were they willing to tell you the reasons for your deferral? I was just wondering what they were willing to talk about and help you with. How long did it take for them to call you back? (I already called HumEc and they told me they will call me back too.)
@rhdhtai Yeah they talked about my demonstrated interest in Human Development and then told me what they would like to see as an update for my application. I called them around December 15th and they got back to me on Jan 7th. They’ll get to you this week or in the weeks to come but if you have any questions go ahead and ask them when you get your call. For me they talked about how they liked my interest in HD and about my upward trend and how they want to see a’s and b’s on my senior mid year transcript and also another letter of rec. It’s personal so it’ll depend on your application.
@CCSenioritis Wow! That’s actually great! It’s nice to see that Cornell actually cares about its deferred applicants and will help you.
@rhdhtai Yeah I think it was also def helps that we applied ED to humEc because not that many people do so that way we get more personalized calls.
@CCSenioritis honestly, what you described to me is what I was hoping for and even more. Imagine this, if this is how personalized and individualized they are towards applicants, imagine how they are to their students!!
Does anyone know anything about using a huge scholarship offer from another university as a “bargaining point” at a school? I just got upwards of 100k (over 4 years) from a school that I’m not super psyched about but it’s hard to turn down an offer like that. I’d like to use it to say something like “Hey Cornell, I have this amazing offer from _____, but even with that and the offers I have from other schools Cornell is absolutely still my top choice and I will absolutely attend if admitted, turning down the other scholarships”. Is that a thing I can do to show demonstrated interest (I was deferred ED and I’m looking for more stuff to send them) or is it really frowned upon?
I think if another Ivy offers you a better deal you can use it as leverage and they’ll help you but in my opinion you’re risking it even doing that (if that’s a real thing, I’m not 100% sure)
Yeah I sounds good in theory but it also sounds very risky to use another college as leverage.
I’ve actually heard from many people that they compare financial aid packages for leverage, like “college Y offered me this much financial aid. Can you give me more?” or something haha although i don’t have any personal experience o/
@chootimes I think that’s only within the Ivy League schools but i could be wrong. So like they could consider raising it if like princeton or brown gave you a better offer.
Ah, I see. Makes sense. :’>
No, you need to get admitted first. They are not going to make their admission decision based on where you got admitted. If you do get admitted then they may consider your FA offerings from other schools if they really want you, and they would only care about their peer schools.
I agree with @oldfort. “Peer school” are the operatives words here. 100K from X university/college is not going to be much leverage unless it’s a peer school in the eyes of Cornell.
@CCSenioritis I applied RD is there anyway Can I show demonstrated interest I can go to any visit because I live in California.
When do those accepted ED have to reply/enroll? It seems, based on this link, that we can reply as late as those who get in RD (May 1): http://admissions.cornell.edu/apply/application-timelines