Need-based grants and endowed scholarships for Cornell undergraduates, with awards sized to each student’s demonstrated financial need.
About this scholarship
- Cornell grants are awarded after federal, state and other external grant or scholarship funding, up to demonstrated financial need.
- Endowed scholarships are awarded together with Cornell grants to students who match donor-set criteria for each endowed fund.
- All Cornell financial aid is need-based, and it offers no merit, athletic or talent-based aid.
- Admissions for international undergraduates is “need-aware”, which means interest in or need for aid is one factor among many in admission decisions.
What the award includes
- Grant amounts vary.
- Cornell meets 100 percent of admitted international undergraduates’ demonstrated need, with aid offers that include Cornell grants, an annual work-study award and reasonable student loans, depending on total family income.
- Grants and scholarships in an aid offer don’t need to be accepted, but work-study and loans do.
Who can apply
- Be an undergraduate applicant or student who shows financial need.
- Eligibility is based on the CSS Profile for first-year students, and on the FAFSA for continuing students.
- The FAFSA is for U.S. citizens and eligible non-citizens only.
- International students need to complete the CSS Profile when they apply for admission if they want grant or scholarship aid at any point during their undergraduate course.
- Returning international students must complete the CSS Profile each year to renew their aid.
- The listing is open to 226 nationalities.
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