<p>yea same here, i really regret procrastinating on outside scholarships. my efc was also 0, and i need about 13 grand from outside sources too O.o
my parents, who are more excited than i am about me going to nyu, are encouraging me to take out loans and go for it tho. if anything i can always transfer haha. and i activated all that online and facebook stuff cuz i got excited lol :/</p>
<p>I’m LSP, so I don’t have merit-based aid. It’s all need-based. We can’t get merit-based until after freshman year, I think. But I got a Liberal Studies Scholarship, which I’m pretty certain was need-based.</p>
<p>does anyone know how much they take like unique situations into account? b/c i’m a quadruplet. So we’ll have four kids in college next year. And my parents make like 250k so I typically wouldn’t qualify for finaid… but obviously i could really use it… especially once my parents taxes go way up…</p>
<p>wow that is pretty unique…</p>
<p>haha yeah usually it’s good unique… but i’m the only one who hasn’t decided on a college however all of mine are about 50K… so all of us added together is… like 150K without finaid… so haha we’ll see how that goes considering that’s less than what my parents get after taxes… i mean i don’t have any problem taking 50k of loans a year if that’s what it takes… but obviously that’s not the best case scenario haha</p>
<p>Wait, so if Stern didnt send you a likely letter you didnt get in???</p>
<p>I find that scary/hard to believe</p>
<p>^^ That’s clearly not true… They are called likely letters for a reason. Only certain people get the likely letters; a good portion of the accepted pool still hasn’t heard back yet so we will soon.</p>
<p>Why can’t they just email it to us? tired of waiting :(</p>
<p>i hope not…just my train of thought…or self denial – if they send likely letters to EVERY admitted student, then what’s really the point of acceptance letters?</p>
<p>so what exactly IS the point of the likely letters?</p>
<p>@big</p>
<p>probably to keep themselves in the mind of students who applied to other competitive schools. </p>
<p>no, i’m serious. NYU knows that certain applicants applied to schools of equal caliber or better, and they’re thinking, “wow, we really want this person. but what if xyz university wants them too? we want them to want US!” so they send out the letter to keep themselves fresh in the mind of that applicant.</p>
<p>well they better not send those letters to every admittee! lol i want them too! darn</p>
<p>@ miss</p>
<p>thats weird. Cause NYU and Fordham are really the only ones I have applied to, other than UTKnox and a local state U…and how would they know?</p>
<p>Likely letters are to inform candidated who have got accepted earlier. NYU likes to inform a lot of candidates of acceptance as early as possible, but can’t do that because they are in a gentleman’s agreement with other colleges. Thus they use likely letters… and a LOT of them</p>
<p>Aren’t the likely letters the same as invites? I think it’s so that people they want the most can make travel arrangements to an admitted student event</p>
<p>which means if you DIDNT get one esp. for stern, ur chances are a lot less… its like carnegie 1st vs 2nd wave</p>