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Bschool2013 says
I’ve seen veterans get a deferral at Cornell. To your point about people trying to trade up when asking for a deferral, you have to put down the regular admission deposit, then a rather hefty deposit in the Fall and the Spring of what would have been your first year. This gets subtracted from your tuition when you show up (like Duke), but Cornell is obviously protecting itself from the trade up by charging what totals to a five figure deposit.
essaysnark says
Hey Bschool2013! Yes definitely, active-duty military are a primary candidate where all the schools are open to deferrals, and Cornell being even more military-friendly in the past few cycles, we’re not surprised to hear this at all. The staged deposit deadlines at Cornell are good to know about; that’ll certainly keep the accepted applicant hooked in all the way through to eventual matriculation!! It would probably be super painful to have to come up with those deposits, but also would be nice once you get to campus and have a less onerous tuition bill to deal with.
Thanks for adding to the conversation with firsthand experience from Cornell!!
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