<p>Please excuse the roughness of these numbers, but keep in mind I rounded on the side against my argument.</p>
<p>Fall Term: 108 Days (September 8 to December 23)
Spring Term: 115 Days (January 19 to May 12)</p>
<p>Okay, so that's 240 Days of potential education experience per year at NYU.</p>
<p>Estimated costs: $54,441
Let's call it an even $50k, because I might get low cost housing.</p>
<p>$50,000 / 240 days = $208 PER DAY!</p>
<p>So, every weekend you spend kicking back is costing you $400 (or $600 if you don't have Friday classes). Take a two hour nap in between classes? $17. That better be the best damn nap you've ever had.</p>
<p>I'm not going to not do it, however. I'm enrolled, I'm excited, I'm anticipating all there is, and I have $27,000 in scholarships to take a little bit of the burden off my family and myself. However, I will remain always aware of how much this experience is really costing, because then I'll remember always to use it, to be a part of it, to immerse myself fully instead of letting class after class drift by.</p>
<p>Wow. This school is just so expensive. But, you have a lot in scholarships!</p>
<p>The education is free, the degree is what you’re paying over $200,000 for. Don’t go through your college years anxiously counting the pennies when you should be soaking up that education. Stay level-headed until after you graduate, then get anxious about letting that $200,000 piece of paper go to waste.</p>
<p>After my son graduated, I took his diploma to have it perma-plaqued and framed. As I left the diploma behind at the store, I joked that they should be verrrrrrrry careful with it, as it cost $200,000. </p>
<p>(I don’t think the clerk in the store got it.)</p>
<p>lol at VeryHappy’s comment^ in reality, you’re paying that much for a diploma saying you graduated from “so and so” university. and hats off to you for not being the typical college student who party without realizing they’re paying to be there. I’ve always dreamed of going to NYU, but it’s just too damn expensive. ='(</p>
<p>Well no, you’re not just paying for the diploma. You’re paying for professors’ salaries, construction of new buildings, utility costs, and maintenance. You’re paying for food, and for people to serve it to you, for computers in the lab, and for keeping the library up to date and organized. You’re paying for the location. You’re paying for everything NYU has to offer, and so you better use it to the best of your ability.</p>