Did anybody think that maybe the family could not afford to pay for cornell?
No. Cornell has tons of grant money available to meet the needs of low income families.
What a college thinks you can afford and what you actually can afford are often different. High Point may be able to offer more generous academic money to a student. A student may be average for Cornell and get no academic money and the same student would be very above average for High Point and get significant academic money. Leaving college with zero debt verus $100-200K in debt
