<p>i'll have to see. i'm pretty sure i could get in, unless they discriminate against the obvious poor.</p>
Hey everyone. I read that nyu is very stingy, especially when it comes to an international student, like me. I wanna ask, then how does international student able to pay for this school, except loans. Frankly, I hate loans.
@IvyOrNothing Just apply and see how you go. Though they are mostly stingy in terms of financial aid, to few they can be quite generous! Without financial aid however, you really have no choice but to seek help from family as you are restricted by the visa in terms of working in the US.
My teacher who wrote the recommendation for me got a full ride to Courant in the 70s… I don’t know how much it would help my case but apparently NYU can be generous if they really want somebody…
So, how can I make them incline towards me?
I got extremely lucky. I joined the Navy specifically so I could afford to go to school in NYC but I didn’t realize that the GI Bill has a cap for private schools like NYU that only covers about half of my tuition. But I was willing go search for scholarships and take out loans to cover the remainder…
BUT, I got extremely lucky and besides the money I get from being in the military (GI Bill, Yellow Ribbon, Housing Allowance), NYU gave me a $23,000 Tisch scholarship. Why? I don’t know for sure 
I was willing to do anything in order to pay for film school…even if that meant giving up 4 years (turned out to be 5 1/2) of my life. If I’m honest, I would never suggest someone to make a sacrifice like that unless going to a certain school is a part of your all consuming dream
@iheartny27 Are you a US citizen? How about doing ROTC 
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@Awakening15 I went to a military school and many of my friends also did the ECP program (2 years) in order to finance their dream studies…
@the_nightboy What outside scholarships did you look into? I heard that Fastweb is like a crapshot.
NYU doesn’t have to give out generous aid, because it can always rely on plenty of worshipful suckers to go into deep debt:
Student-loan crisis: 10 colleges where students owe the most
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-colleges-where-students-owe-the-most-2015-09-11
NYU is in the same student debt league with dodgey for-profit colleges.
The study you cite looked at AGGREGATE student debt. Of course NYU would be on this list; it is the largest private university in the US, second only to BYU (whose tuition is subsidized by the Mormon church). NYU has, by not even close numbers, far more students than any other private university. Multiply all those students by even modest borrowing, and you will have a very large aggregate number, indeed.
The fact is, the average NYU student borrows significantly less than the average student at most other universities. NYU students graduate, on average, with less than $24,000 in debt (if I recall the current numbers correctly). This is below the national average, which I believe is around $30k. And, didn’t that recent database released by the Department of Education list NYU graduates as among the best in the nation when it comes to low default rates (an indicator that they are sufficiently well-employed to repay their debt).
Hardly in the same league as those “dodgey for-profit colleges,” wouldn’t you say?
But, go ahead and jump on the bandwagon of NYU haters if it makes you happy. Those of us with kids at NYU are hardly “worshipful suckers.” I couldn’t be happier to be sending my kid to NYU. And, based on the internship opportunities we’ve been seeing, it sure seems like employers couldn’t be happier to see NYU on a resume.