<p>Thanks for all the info everyone. Very helpful. I want to study in NYC because it’s my life’s dream to be there. I’ve wanted to since I was a child, I’ve financed several trips there myself and it’s where I feel most at home. I currently live in Italy (originally from the UK) so I’ve lived abroad before and travelled extensively (I’m not rich by the way, I fund my travels by working as an English teacher) and NYC is where I belong. It’s not that I want to study in America, per se, it’s that I want to study in New York.
I want to study music, specifically singing and the course I am looking at is at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. Which, incidentally, has the highest number of international students of any university in the US.
I could get a co-signer with good credit history fairly easily as long as they do not have to be from the US. </p>