<p>I’m thinking of something like’s cartera’s wording, but mentioning merit aid, since we don’t qualify for financial aid. Something like this:</p>
<p>“while NYU is my first choice, I am in a position that merit aid will impact my decision so the list may change once financial packages are received.”</p>
<p>or…</p>
<p>“while NYU is my first choice, merit scholarships may impact my decision since my family does not qualify for need-based aid.”</p>
<p>Help!</p>
<p>I strongly recommend against the second wording. Let the school determine whether or not you qualify for need-based aid, but think long and hard about disqualifying yourself from receiving it. I thought that we would not qualify for need-based aid because our EFC was a good bit more than anticipated when I filled out the forms for the first time. It turns out that we got $10K in need-based aid the year that we had two kids in college. Since I have been unemployed the last few months, we may qualify again next year. We were told that having established a baseline by filing the FAFSA and Profile forms every year made it easier for the school to grant need-based aid in response to the changes in our financial situation from year to year. Unless you have a very secure job and a lot of money in very conservative investments, I would strongly recommend filling out the financial aid paperwork, even if you know you will not get anything this year.</p>
<p>I was using “financial aid” in a broad sense that would include merit aid but that is probably not accurate. I like the first choice in your post.</p>
<p>Bassdad, we did fill out the paperwork, as it’s required for even merit aid at NYU. Thanks for all your help. Cartera, your PM box is full.</p>
<p>We are leaning toward saying:</p>
<p>“NYU and XYZ are my top two choices, but merit aid may factor in to my final decision.”</p>
<p>Because it is the truth. How does that sound? Or he will simply say NYU is number one, but merit aid blah blah. </p>
<p>And what would we do without all of you?</p>
<p>I personally wouldn’t mention another school. I vote for “NYU is my first choice, but merit aid…”</p>
<p>What SJTH said.</p>
<p>NYU is my first choice,but merit aid offers may impact my decision. This should be an additon to ranking the five schools as they have asked.</p>
<p>Since you are already giving them the rank order of the other schools, I think it is very important that NYU believes they are #1 (or any school who asks.)</p>
<p>I wonder why they would even want the other schools ranked, especially if he’s saying NYU is his first choice. Is it to get an idea who their “overlaps” are? Guidance counselor said the other schools are none of their business, but wasn’t opposed to my son saying NYU was his first choice.</p>
<p>It sounds like NYU is sending out these (emails?) in less than a week post-audition - that’s pretty impressive, and congrats to your two sons! As both of your sons auditioned for jazz, does anyone know if other areas (like, say, Vocal Performance . . . ) are doing the same?</p>
<p>Jazz/shreddermom, don’t be shy about mentioning the impact of merit aid directly. This is very similar to the job interview process, and you are now in the “salary negotiation” phase. Good luck!</p>
<p>My daughter received an email from NYU this morning saying that while she will not formally get her notification letter for another two weeks, she should look into making travel plans for one of the new student information sessions on April 9th-11th. The letter specifically said that these emails only went out to “specific students”. We are assuming this is good news. Has anyone else received this email? The question I have is: How exactly do we make travel plans with such incomplete information? The website only refers to April 9th-11th without listing any specific times of day for scheduled events. This makes it difficult to make any arrangements!</p>
<p>My son got that email yesterday, too! I called NYU and was told it means an acceptance. I believe further invite and RSVP info will come soon, before the packet. There a tons of posts about that email on the NYU forum. Congrats!!</p>
<p>My daughter got the email as well. From the massive thread explosion on the collegeconfidential NYU board, it sounds like it means you are in - congratulations!</p>
<p>While I certainly wouldn’t mind making another trip to NY, it would be nice to give the suitcase a rest so I hope that they have a local event. Does anyone know what the 13 cities are? Hopefully they won’t skip the Bay Area!</p>
<p>The year DD was accepted it was a post card and it went to those who were out of town and had to make travel arrangements. If you lived within a day trip of NYU they weren’t sent out so not getting one did not mean you weren’t in, but it did mean you got in if you did receive one. You can count on it and make travel plans.</p>
<p>We did not go that year since she had visited 2x’s already.</p>
<p>The weird thing about this email is that it doesn’t say which event or date you should consider traveling to - it just lists a bunch of dates and says more information will be forthcoming when the RSVP site is up and running. So it’s pretty useless, except to let the student “relax” with regard to NYU.</p>
<p>And for those still waiting, it’s been posted in the NYU forum that A) more emails are still coming and B) not getting an email does not mean rejection.</p>
<p>hi jazz/shreddermom, could you please post a link to where it says “A) more emails are still coming and B) not getting an email does not mean rejection.” as i cant seem to find that. Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Anxious, I saw both statements posted repeatedly in the NYU forum. I hope you’ll forgive me for not digging around and looking for links. But I can elaborate: </p>
<p>As far as A), it seems several people called NYU admissions and were told that more emails would be coming. As for B), several posters are likening these emails to snail mail invite postcards NYU sent last year to accepted student events, and apparently while the postcard meant acceptance, there were lots of students ultimately accepted who did not receive the postcards. </p>
<p>I can’t vouch for the validity of either theory, but I’m sure a phone call on Monday will tell.</p>