<p>i’ve looked on its website regarding financial aid but i’m looking for more insight…140k for parents income</p>
<p>Have you tried their estimator? We found it to be quite accurate. No one can give you an answer based just on your parents’ income since there are multiple other factors considered including parental and student assets, parental age, family size, number of family members in college, etc…</p>
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<p>We found Cornell’s financial aid to be fairly generous for middle income families. With 140K income, your family will probably be asked to make a fairly substantial contribution to your education but not to pay full price, and you will be asked to take $7500 in loans per year. On top of the loans, and on top of what your parents are expected to contribute, you as a student will be expected to contribute approximately $3K per year from your savings and summer earnings. (The amount differs a bit each year from Freshman to Senior year, and will also vary according to your income and savings – my S has about $3K in savings and his student contribution is a few hundred above the “minimum” freshman contribution.)</p>
<p>Which college are we talking about?
If you’re not going to one of those public ones… then you’re looking at maybe 25-30k aid per year (two semesters). Your parents and you will pay the rest (around another 25-30k).
Remember, this is only an estimate.</p>
<p>140k may or may not get some aid. My family was around 100k last year and got around 20k in grants from the school. People lower than 100k typically receive aid and Cornell tends to be very generous in that regard.</p>
<p>Also, no college at Cornell is public. It’s just that some are funded by the state of New York for social and economic purposes.</p>
<p>I think it’s <100k = free or very close to it; over and below a certain number (120k?) and you get over half; above that number and you get less than half. Just guessing, of course.</p>
<p>My D will be attending one of the “contract colleges”. Our income was $163,000 and she received “zero” finanacial aid. Total cost is around $40,000 per year. Endowed Cornell colleges are around $55,000.</p>
<p>^As it said on my financial aid form, $57,052.
Such a large price to pay…</p>
<p>My family’s income is around 120k. My brother is in Cals and we got almost no financial aid, but next year both of us will be at Cornell. I am in Arts and Sciences. I received over 40k in grant aid. It was the best deal out of all of my schools including a full tuition scholarship. Contract colleges have little financial aid besides the reduced tuition. 57k is a lot versus 40k, but the endowed colleges give much better financial aid. Also, the contract colleges do not give grant aid.</p>
<p>*Also, the contract colleges do not give grant aid. *</p>
<p>That’s not true. I’m a New Yorker in CALS and I got 20k in grant aid.</p>