<p>R12…,</p>
<p>Has your daughter heard yet? Just wanted your input. I started looking at the #s. It turned out that NYU’s tuition was a little over $38,000+ for 2009-2010 academic year. Add $16,000 to this for room and board. (NYU website put down close to $14,000 for room and board with total bill of $58,000 for the year). Actually, around $12,000 for dorm sonny prefers and another $4000 for the full flex meal plan, in addition to inflation for acad yr 2010-2011 along with out of pocket expenses (inevitable with all the restaurants and shops around) and the NYU bill is close to $60,000+ per year. Sticker shock is starting to hit, even with sonny’s scholarship (we are grateful for it but, it still falls short). I am figuring we have to put out at least $140,000 out of pocket even with the $100,000 scholarship. (Realistically, it would be $160,000 with inflation included over the next 4 years). OOOUCH! No wonder they say this is an expensive school! I can’t even imagine without scholarship and without aid!</p>
<p>Sonny is sold on NYU but I am looking hard at the CUNY Macaulay program (if sonny gets in, results shortly). The CUNY program seems to have even more students winning undergraduate and graduate awards.</p>
<p>Sigh, what a difficult process! Even when you get in with scholarship!</p>
<p>Don’t meant to complain, but it is a real world dilemma. Just want to hear your feedback.</p>
<p>Thx for ur patience guys…am I right to assume that those who applied to cas, but got transferred to lsp because the regular sch is full?or did they initially apply to lsp ?</p>
<p>mahedontist…one doesn’t apply to lsp…you just end up there through a decision by NYU.</p>
<p>evolving…I have known NYU was $60,000 a year. It’s sad that so many people don’t. This is why I was “explaining” to some who said that DEANs was a full ride. It’s not. It’s full TUITION. Which is a GREAT thing…make no mistake. But, for example, my daughter has two friends who go to NYU and their parents are FILTHY rich. So, even with $25,000 up to full tuition…it’s still very pricey, and I always try to give kids those numbers on other threads when they’re talking about how much it costs. </p>
<p>THAT is why we can only afford it IF daughter were to have gotten a big scholarship. And that is why it’s frustrating that, with her efforts, she didn’t. NYU IS known to give what I’ve heard called “hybrid” aid. They look at you application and say yes to scholly, but then look at your FAFSA and make the decision based on whether or not it looks like you need it. This doesn’t seem to always be true. I read one person on CC say they got a big scholly without filling out FAFSA. Another person recently said they got one in late April (maybe it was on this thread…and felt it MIGHT be because someone else didn’t accept theirs?..maybe we could hope for something like that).</p>
<p>So…yes…$60,000 is a BAD starting place (our in state STARTED at $20,000…and my child “earned” her way down to nearly nothing). It’s hard to make that decision. Only each one of us can do that. We know our own situation. Can we make the payment…isn’t always the answer to whether or not we can actually AFFORD it. I’m still fighting cancer and my pills are CRAZY expensive. There is no where for that info on FAFSA. My future earning potential looks bleak. I’ve only come out of poverty in the past few years…no where on FAFSA for that. NO savings. No retirement. No spouse. </p>
<p>So…YOU have to look at your situation and decide if you can still pay that steep balance. But, if your son wants to go there…I hope you can. We try to give them what we can, and it’s sure TOUGH to have to say no. I wasn’t able to go to college (no parents, no money) - so I REALLY want my daughter to go where she wants. But…of course it all comes down to cash…we can’t have everything we want. SHE is not even stressing about this - only I am. But we’re not the first to be in this boat…nor will we be the last. Just wish I’d know more about the process, earlier in her educational “career”…to have better guided her. </p>
<p>LUCK on your decision! I hope you’re getting more sleep than I am right now! I’m practically sleepwalking at work!</p>
<p>R12…,</p>
<p>I was reflecting on the other thread about how we see greatness through our children’s achievements in this grueling process. I have to add the badge of honor that should be pinned to parents like yourself (and yes, moi also). You seem to have really achieved a tremendous amount as a person and as a parent (for we nurture what nature has provided in our kids). I am so impressed with what you have accomplished. Even your involvement here shows your attention to detail and use/dissemination of info (very effectively) for guidance in the college/ life process here.</p>
<p>Kudos to you! I wish you well in your battle with your health. I hope your daughter appreciates your greatness as a parent (single, no less!).</p>
<p>Ahhh…“if wishes were horses (and good intentions actually got us anywhere)…we all could ride”. But thanks for your kind words anyway. Same back at you. My daughter has a friend in one of her ECs whose Mom just disappeared (our school educates the TOP and the BOTTOM economic level in our large city…it’s a crazy diverse school). I think the Mom is “back” now, but … the kids were kicked out of their apartment while she was gone, and all are in a shelter now. No matter how bad or good we think we have it…there is ALWAYS someone above and below us in our rewards or our struggles.</p>
<p>R124687…</p>
<p>OIC…thx for your guidance…</p>
<p>I would not exactly call NYU’s financial aid hybrid. </p>
<p>There are still 2 kinds of aid—merit and financial aid.</p>
<p>However, once you qualify for financial aid, they will give you more (or less) grant/ scholarship money based on how much they want yoiu to attend (or your “merit.”)</p>
<p>True merit aid still exists, but it is available less and less. MLK scholars are chosen and given a merit scholarship regardless of need. Music/ art/ and theatre programs still offer talent merit aid regardless of need. The scholar’s programs throughout the school will admit students regardless of need, but whether they will receive any scholarship $ is based on need. </p>
<p>So if your D has need, she may get it through financial aid, even if it is not a merit aid scholarship like MLK. Just understand that NYU seldom meets full need. So don’t expect to get $60K minus your EFC. Some kids get that, but very few.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>“The scholar’s programs throughout the school will admit students regardless of need, but whether they will receive any scholarship $ is based on need”</p>
<p>well, I wouldn’t say that’s entirely true; my EFC is pretty high so I wasn’t entitled to much financial aid, but they gave me a scholarship. It wasn’t a full-tuition scholarship like the MLK ones but it was still a merit scholarship, and it wasn’t need based because my parents could’ve paid tuition out of pocket if it came down to it. And I definitely wasn’t in the top 10% of applicants either, grade-wise. I think there are smaller scholarships which most people haven’t heard of given by individual NYU departments. </p>
<p>@R1246 - it sounds like your daughter is pretty smart; she will probably get into at least one Ivy-league school, and they have much better FA than NYU does…hope everything works out. Who knows, she may get a scholarship at NYU too. And I’m guessing you’re relieved she’s got the full ride at State U to fall back on!</p>
<p>Yeah my EFC is 0 and I’m first gen, do I have a chance for aid?</p>
<p>to Alix, just wanted to say thanks for backing up us LSPers. whether or not its an “acceptance” technically, I’m just happy that it wasn’t a rejection. call it whatever it you want, because we’ll be graduating with the same exact degree as everyoneeee else.</p>
<p>my friend got into CAS today…she’s from northern jersey.</p>
<p>Your friend got into CAS today from New Jersey? Was she one of those big scholarship recipients? If not, then I guess CAS letters have started coming out!</p>
<p>i dont think she was a big scholarship recipient.</p>
<p>@sansri88 was your friend LSP’d? or regular admit to CAS??</p>
<p>Alix,
If you are entitled to any financial aid at all and you have filled out a FAFSA that NYU has on file, then you are in the category of receiving financial aid. (ie, if your EFC is $45K, but the cost of attendance at NYU is even higher.)</p>
<p>Our EFC number was higher than the cost of attendance at NYU, so we only qualify for those merit scholarship that don’t consider the FAFSA at all.</p>
<p>The Dean’s Scholarship at Steinhardt does consider your FAFSA (D is a Dean’s scholar and does not get any $ for this recognition), whereas there are merit aid scholarships for music talent that do not require the FAFSA to even be filed. (D receives an annual scholarship based on talent.)</p>
<p>I do agree that there are probably other sources of scholarships available that are not publicized. But they may or may not require the FAFSA being filed and need.</p>
<p>My EFC is 0 and I’m a first generation american/college student. Will I get a decent amount of aid?</p>
<p>@universitygirl she said cas. Not lsp’d</p>
<p>then im guessing they already started sending out letters…</p>
<p>@cowman
You probably will get considerably more aid than most of the students venturing into NYU; however, the university states that although they have a large endowment, their financial aid is not the greatest. So I guess all you can do is wait, but you’ll most likely get a pretty nice amount. </p>
<p>I’m from Long Island, anyone hear anything within NY that didn’t receive any scholarships? Agh, why can’t it come faster…</p>
<p>@sansri88 thanks for the update… off hand, do you know her stats!? :D</p>