<p>I really want to apply to NYU EDII because it's my dream school and I want to show admission officers that I'm committed to their school. Unfortunately, I'm not at all able to afford NYU. My dad is a single parent who doesn't make enough money at all to send me to school, my mom doesn't pay any kind of child support or anything, I don't even know where she is, and all my other family has absolutely no money to help me with. </p>
<p>I know that I can apply for FAFSA and other scholarships but I hear that NYU doesn't do very good with giving out financial aid... Is this true? I also can't afford to just take out a ton of loans that I'd have to pay back once I graduate because 60K a year adds up quickly and isn't a very nice number by graduation... :/ Help!</p>
<p>NYU is extremely expensive and does not give generous need-based financial aid. If you do not have a lot of family financial contribution to draw on, NYU is very unlikely to be affordable.</p>
<p>What are the qualities that make NYU your “dream” school?</p>
<p>The most important college to consider is not a dream school but a safety school. That is, a school you know you can get into and afford. Have you identified one or more schools like that?</p>
<p>As BobWallace said, the most important thing for you to do is identify a school (or schools) that you can afford, be admitted to, and would be happy to attend. Once you’ve done that, you can apply anywhere else you want, including NYU EDII. Just because most of their admitted students get crappy aid doesn’t mean they all do . . . after all, they have to give their aid money to someone! Just don’t count on it . . . and make sure you have a good back-up plan in place.</p>
<p>By the way, NYU is affordable for some low income New York State residents, through NYU’s HEOP program. See here:</p>
<p>OP, just a word to the wise–when posting on CC in the future, make the title of your post relevant to your topic. In this case, for example, “How can I afford NYU?” would get a lot more knowledgeable responses than “Help!” There are a number of really savvy posters on CC, but not many of them have the time or inclination to read every single post on the chance it may be one that can help with–so give them a clue!</p>
<p>Sorry I’m kind of new to this website, what is OP? Haha… </p>
<p>Sorry about the title! I just really needed the help so I thought it was fitting haha thanks for the tip :)</p>
<p>I live in Maui, Hawaii… </p>
<p>The only school that I know I can get in to and actually have some yearning to go to, and probably get good scholarships for, is University of Oregon… BUT, I really want to be in New York. I’ve wanted to go to a school in New York since I was in 7th grade but didn’t really find a school that fit me so well until I really began to consider NYU in the 10th grade. NYU is just the exact kind of school I want to be in, it’s a school but it’s also a community. NYU is bigger than just the buildings you take classes in but you really get to be a part of the city. I forget who said it but I was watching a video and someone made the statement that, “NYU has no boundary between the school and the community. It’s a whole”. - and that’s exactly what kind of school I want to be at! Aside from the atmosphere I also feel that NYU has great academics and that it would be the right school for me - assuming of course that I’m even accepted. NYU is not a safety for me, I know that with my lack of EC’s I’m not a guarantee but I would be the happiest person ever to be accepted… </p>
<p>Affordability wise, my family is really not “rich” at all and I can’t exactly “afford” anywhere… My whole life I’ve wanted to go to college and all of my family, for the most part, supports that, but no one has the money to send me…</p>
<p>I said UofO only because of all the schools I want to apply to, that would probably be the one with the lowest standards, making it my “safety school”. I also have connections with the school so that’s also a beneficial factor.</p>
<p>The only school that I know I can get in to and actually have some yearning to go to, and probably get good scholarships for, is University of Oregon</p>
<p>Oregon wouldn’t be your safety school because you don’t know how you’d pay for it. O is very expensive as an OOS school.</p>
<p>Why do you think O would give you scholarships? And how much? O isn’t known to give much scholarship $ to OOS students.</p>
<p>From Hawaii, you’d need at least about $35k per year in aid. O isn’t likely going to give you anything close to that.</p>
<p>what is your GPA and test scores?</p>
<p>Edited to add:</p>
<p>SAT was a 1610 and ACT was an extremely low, 21</p>
<p>Your test scores are modest. Your test scores would need to be MUCH higher to have a chance of affordable merit from O and other schools.</p>
<p>Scholarships are given to “buy” top stats students to come to a school.</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids My test scores are not my best because I took those while under so much stress and pressure due to family problems and other difficulties that I did not study whatsoever, hence, why I left out my test scores in this post. I know that I can do way better this next time I take them because I’ve been able to relieve myself of the pressures I had previously and I’ve gotten to be able to begin studying now, months before the test. But thanks for the input.</p>
<p>@WayOutWestMom, I’ve looked into the WUE program a little bit but I thought UofO was a part of it, another reason I was claiming it as a safety, I guess I got it confused… Unfortunately, ha…</p>
<p>WUE is not going to help you anyway, unless your family can afford the 150% tuition rate . . . even as a WUE student, you still won’t be eligible for financial aid at these out-of-state schools.</p>
<p>If your GPA is good and your test scores are crap, fix the test scores. Try out practice tests for both the SAT and the ACT, and figure out which is a better fit for you. Some students do much better on one than the other. But, regardless of which test you take, you still need to prep!</p>
<p>If your GPA is crap also, then your options are more limited, but, either way, I’d suggest looking at all of the following:</p>
<p>You’re not “stuck” - there are affordable schools. You just have to decide which is more important - your dream of living in New York or your dream of going to college?</p>
<p>My GPA is a 3.86 UW, 3.95 W. (I calculated the unweighted because my school only shows weighted so I might be off a bit but that is the lowest it can be, I made sure of that. So it’s either a 3.86 or higher.)</p>
<p>I can’t stand Hawaii and absolutely do not want to go to college here… I would go crazy…</p>
<p>Try Fordham University in the Bronx and Manhattan. Both campuses are in the heart of NYC, but slightly easier to get into and affordable. It’s a little bit smaller of a school but their Bronx campus is very traditional and their Manhattan campus, very urban. Check it out.</p>
<p>Kaikai: Aloha! Sister’s ohana is in Kihei! Try the WUE and hit CALIFORNIA. Have you even looked at schools in our state. Weather is so much nicer and temperate. Small kind far. Did you visit the Manoa campus??<br>
Nephew went there and got Kamaina scholarships then got a job transfer to Washington state and employer paid his tuition.
Your family would be stuck with a large loan amount if you went to NYU. Look at the suggestions here and think hard about your debt. The mainland is big and there are lots of schools. So think about it.</p>
<p>OP, if you can get your scores up, you might want to apply to Barnard as well as the other schools posters here have suggested. I think you might be a very interesting applicant to any of them.</p>
<p>When you are looking at schools and your family is not going to be able to pay the full costs for you to go to certain colleges, in many cases, it’s most of the schools, then you have two very important issues to address in your process: Chances of admissions, and chances of getting the money to pay for the school. </p>
<p>NYU might be a possibility for you. It’s likely to depend largely on your test scores, your continued performance in school, the difficulty of the classes you take. Though NYU does not guarantee to meet full need, it does do so for SOME of the students it accepts, namely the ones they most want. The test scores are very important in the chances of you getting full need met. I’ve known kids who got their best packages from NYU, but they were all top of the top students with very high SAT1s, grades and taking difficult courses. So by all means, give it a try and see what they come with, but I do not suggest doing so ED unless you want to go through the trouble of turning them if there is not the award you wanted, which is frankly highly likely will happen–that you get gapped.</p>
<p>There are a of schools in the NYC area, and you might want to check them out. Other than Columbina, most of them do not guarantee to meet full need. But you can give it a try. Manhattan College, Fordham, St Johns, are all some possibilities. Check out other options.</p>
<p>But the most important schools of all on your list will be the ones that are pretty sure to take you and that you can afford. That’s the true challenge of the college search is to come up with such schools. THe rest is all gravy.</p>
<p>(also you may not be aware that you cannot just take out any amount of loans that you “need” they are, in fact, fairly limited in comparision to the price tags of many schools)</p>
<p>I know…
I’m looking for other schools as safeties, but I’m still hoping for NYU or Columbia (huge reach for Columbia). I’m also applying for the Gates Millennium Scholarship and even though that’s a really low chance of me getting it, I’m just trying to hope for the best.</p>
Unfortunately, ha…</p>