<p>NYU has offered me a generous amount of financial aid. Around $53,000. Can I appeal this decision? Even with this aid/scholarship, my family will find it real hard to send me. </p>
<p>If there is a way to negotiate, how do I go about it? I really have no idea. </p>
<p>Yeah I was admitted and got NOTHING for aid. And there’s nothing for me to do to appeal cuz the decision is made. I have no options - no work study (I’m international), no government loans, no nothing.</p>
<p>Hope your situation works out. Sorry I’m not of any help…</p>
<p>I’m considering appealing as well, it would be nice to get another 5-10k but something’s telling me that they won’t be willing</p>
<p>I got around 10k, with 55k in loans. is that even possible?
Sorry I can’t help I’m commenting so I can see when anyone answers lol because I definitely need to appeal 
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<p>@yalesoon same here. 55000 in loans is ridiculous</p>
<p>Yeah, 55k take forever to pay off. :o</p>
<p>Again, is there any official way to appeal? Like in UCLA, there’s this form, “Request for Reduction” or something on those lines which halves your total COA. </p>
<p>NYU is notorious for bad financial aid packages. Be thankful you got over 50k. They won’t budge.</p>
<p>@Bouncer @Kaybee3 - 53K is freaking amazing. I’ve seen a lot of really large aid packages posted here this week - I don’t think those are “bad financial aid” packages at ALL. Mine isn’t close to 53K but it’s way more than I expected and I’m incredibly grateful. I don’t see where having to take out $10 - $15K in loans per year to get a NYU degree is not worth the ROI - my flagship state school costs $25K a year and won’t provide nearly the ROI. Graduating with $40K debt total after 4 years isn’t unreasonable these days. I guess it all depends on what your other offers are.</p>
<p>I guess it’s all perspective, but after reading all the comments leading up to decision day about “horrible” NYU financial aid packages, I think that’s a undeserved and very general impression. I was very surprised to see so many people accepted to NYU getting 60% or more of costs covered by scholarships here, me included. Pretty sure any of the people on the waiting list would jump at the chance to have a “bad” financial aid package of $53K to NYU.</p>