<p>i received an email of accpetance from the clive davis department of recorded music at tisch nyu.
but as i went to check my financial package i was extremely shocked that i've received ridiculously little.. just a few thousand dollars of tisch scholarship. everything else are loans. it's like theyre saying "hey we're gonna accept you cuz you're quite talented.. but were expecting you to decline our offer on your own because we prefer to have some other moderately skilled rich kid in our program." i've applied for fafsa for my family makes less than tisch's tuition. is the financial package i received with my letter of acceptance the final one? or is there still more to come..</p>
<p>Welcome to NYU. They didn’t get their reputation for being lousy for financial aid without working for it.</p>
<p>You can “appeal” - they may increase your package by a nominal amount, but it won’t be much. So basically you are looking at what you are going to get.</p>
<p>If you filed FAFSA, then your aid package is what you’ll get.</p>
<p>What was your EFC? </p>
<p>Did you get a Pell Grant in your FA package.</p>
<p>NYU is not affordable for most people. Where else did you apply?</p>
<p>This is often considered an “admit/deny.” The college pretty much knows the family can’t afford it with the package that is offered. With that said, occassionally some admit/deny student actually has a rich grandparent who ends up paying. But other than that, the school pretty much knows a tiny percentage of their admit/deny students will actually attend.</p>
<p>No I don’t think for one moment this is admit/deny…they just aren’t known for meeting need.</p>
<p>NYU does not meet 100% need for most of their students. They are upfront about that. But they are need blind in admissions. And they are a large school that accepts a lot of students. So many of the kids that are accepted are gapped. Because it is a very expensive school, the gaps can be huge in dollar amounts. NYU is also the caliber school that usually meets more of accepted students’ needs, so this red flags their policies even more. Many schools with that selectivity are need aware but tend to meet the need of the students they accept. NYU does not operate that way. They operate more like a state school does in terms of financial aid packages, but their prices are right up at the top of the private schools’.</p>
<p>i applied to several places but only got accepted to tisch, suny stony brook, and syracuse.
i heard that syracuse is pretty good with producing music… but i’m assuming that tisch is way more prestigious. but really is it worth 60,000 of loans? i’m considering just attending class for a semester or a year and transfer. i figured that other colleges would like a student from tisch rather than suny.</p>
<p>No. Nobody will care, much less be impressed by, where you spent the first semester of your freshman year before transferring.</p>
<p>You need to go to a school that makes financial sense for you and your family. No school, no matter how allegedly “prestigious,” is worth mortgaging your future and subjecting yourself to a debt load you can never repay.</p>
<p>Colleges don’t work that way in terms of transfers. If you do well at a SUNY, you can transfer to other schools. Better that way. Tisch is a big name school and it can help when looking for contacts in NYU but I don’t think it’s worth that much in loans.</p>
<p>Agree with everyone here. From the music perspective, was it the Bandier program at Syracuse? If so, jump on it if the financial package allows it. </p>
<p>Do not go into major debt for any undergrad pursuit, especially in a music field.</p>
<p>*i figured that other colleges would like a student from tisch rather than suny. *</p>
<p>No…that is NOT true…and there’s no point in accumulating debt for ONE or TWO semesters at NYU…that would be unwise.</p>
<p>You would need your parents to co-sign such loans…and if they can’t qualify or don’t want to then it’s a “no go.” It’s waaaaaaay tooooo much to borrow anyway.</p>
<p>im south korean and its very sad that the name of the college is all that matters where i came from. i got accepted to tisch by producing music merely by my own effort. by that i mean i never had a proper education in music nor producing beats. the acceptance letter from tisch means a lot to me. and i feel like a semester or two of TISCH education would not hurt. i know that 32 students got accepted this year to the clive davis department of recorded music including me. and it seems like all 31 of them are going to attend NYU without hesitating. makes me wonder how they’re gonna pay for all that money… are they just filthy rich or did they receive more scholarship money?</p>
<p>If you got an affordable financial package from Syracuse, you should seriously consider it. It’s an excellent program, and there’s school spirit and active campus life. There is plenty of time to live in NY after graduation rather than spend all your money on NYU and be in debt the rest of your life.</p>
<p>If neither school is affordable, Stony Brook is a good choice. I don’t know details of their music program, but the school overall is well respected.</p>
<p>In any case, find a package you can handle, and any of those schools will give you an excellent education I’m sure.</p>
<p>* and i feel like a semester or two of TISCH education would not hurt. *</p>
<p>Yes, it could hurt - it could hurt you financially and it could hurt your future. Especially in a business like music, where many new grads spend a few years struggling stringing together whatever they can get before they get the job they really want. Also you may have to work your way up, and working to the top may mean starting out in a low-paying assistant position.</p>
<p>Especially if you want to do this in a city as expensive as NYC, taking on big debt for “one or two semesters of a Tisch education” will not make any kind of sense. You can’t put 1-2 semesters of Tisch on your resume. What will show is where your final degree came from.</p>
<p>Follow the money.</p>