What if the net cost of NYU comes out higher than the NPC indicates? When you apply ED, you are stating that you will attend if accepted. Yes, insufficient financial aid is a reason to say no to an ED offer.
@MYOS1634 what do you think of the advisability of applying ED for this international student with financial constraints?
You have to get recent data right from the source. NYUās Class of 2027 acceptance rate was 8%. I doubt Tandonās was higher than that. NYU Sends Out Offers of Admission to the Class of 2027
NYUās NPC is also notoriously bad for domestic students, let alone internationals, so I would not trust that net COA number. Their FA is also not as generous as other schools, and they require certification of 4 years of the net COA for internationals prior to enrolling your first year. NYU is NOT a good ED choice.
https://www.nyu.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/how-to-apply/international-applicants.html
I agree with thumper that applying ED might not make sense for you, as you have significant financial need. Talk with your parents and see what they think.
yikesā¦ nevermind!!! thank you so much for your help, I didnāt know their calculator was so bad!
My safeties would most likely be SUNY new paltz or oswego.
No worries, thereās no way you could have known!
If you get a student visa, you will not be able to apply for a work visa. The rule is that a student visa is for studying, not for working. You will be allowed to work for your college (you wouldnāt qualify for work study, but you can do a non work study job), but only for up to 20 hours a week. Summer employment is restricted, and OPT or CPT is required. See this link for a detailed explanation: Employment | ICE.
Hm I see, if I am allowed to work for my college I could still get paid, right? I could use that money towards my tuition. Iām thinking if I could get paid internships after my freshman year and use that money towards my tuition 
" Work with an employer that is contractually affiliated with the school is on-campus employment even if the work site is not located on the campus (such as a research lab affiliated with your school)."
Youāre getting ahead of yourself, because youāre planning to pay with a job you donāt know if you can get ā¦ but you canāt get a visa in the first place without proving that you have adequate funding to pay for school. Thereās no way youāll get a visa if your game plan for paying is to earn money once you start school. I strongly suggest picking a school that you think you might want to attend & talking to someone in their international student office. They will be able to explain things to you.
As an international student, you probably will need a student visa to study here. To get that, you will need to complete a certificate of finances demonstrating that you have at the ready the funds to pay your costs here for collegeā¦full costs. This can include already approved financial aid, and loans. It can NOT include potential sources of incomeā¦like possible earnings from a job.
In addition, the amount of time you can actually work is somewhat restricted. You will not be able to work enough to fully fund your college costsā¦or even half of them.
@happymomof1 @kelsmom @MYOS1634 @Mwfan1921 do you know the number of hours an international student can work here while attending college?
Up to 20 hours a week, and these are typically minimum wage jobs. Definitely canāt count on them to pay for college. And as you said, proof of existing finances is required to get an F1 student visa.
Are you here with a parent as part of your parentās visa?
And Alfred.
Because theyāre instate publics.
You may be eligible for work study, but it CANNOT help you pay for tuition -it can help with personal expenses and, if you save from one semester to the next, for books. Typically you work oncampus about 8-10 hours as a freshman (15 max and only as a sophomore bc hours worked has been studied and 6-10 is actually positive for the student and 15+ is severely detrimental to grades -and ofc working a lot affects activities, which are how you build your resume for after college so theyāre not optionalā¦) Your work study award is typically $1,500 per semester, as in, the maximum you can earn working on campus. You need to find a job yourself -it can be working the breakfast shift in the cafeteria, helping the IT helpline, tutoringā¦ depending on your status -freshman, sophomoreā¦- and previous experience or success in specific classes. Youāre assigned a nulber of hours and are paid, usually a couple hundred dollars, twice a month.
Your bill for tuition, fees, room, and board, can sometimes be paid in monthly installments, but often itās due half in July half in August or September. So work study canāt help pay for this.
Have you checked with your GC that you DO qualify for the 7 free SUNY apps but not for EOP or HEOP?
Ed is only advisable if the college meets full need for admitted internationals. It IS highly advisable if thereās an affordable meet need school.
Does NYU meet need for internationals?.(they also have a very dubious reputatkon wrt FA and a lousy NPC). Basically Id never recommend NYU for ED if one needs FA, but feel free to change my mind due to their new āmeet needā policy.
Also, I donāt think a NYS student with this level of financial need who isnāt HEOP has a real shot compared to HEOP candidates.
URochester meets need and is more reliable, but indicates a 33k, ie., out of budget, net cost, so I donāt see NYU Tandon as a real possibility ED.
What kind of visa do you currently have?
Sunys will consider you a NYS resident AFAIK but your status (undocumented, H4, F4ā¦) could matter.
The rules for H-4 visa holders are different than those for F-1, which was why I asked: āUnder U.S. immigration laws, H-4 visa holders are allowed to study at any U.S. university. However, H-4 visa holders are not permitted to work in the United States. An H-4 visa holder is only allowed to apply for work authorization if the principal worker with the H-1B visa is applying for lawful permanent resident status (LPR) or has received an extension of H-1V status beyond the six-year limit.ā
The problem ED-wise is that very few needs-met schools guarantee full-need-met aid to admitted international students. Schools like NYU, Rochester, and Northeastern definitely do not - on the contrary, they rely on the money they get from international students to balance their domestic financial aid budget. Of the schools who do meet need for internationals, only 7 are need-blind, and theyāre all extremely reachy. (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Dartmouth, Bowdoin and Amherst) The others who meet need will also be need-aware, meaning that the more aid you need, the harder it will be to be accepted.
If you can identify a need-aware school that will meet your need if you get in, and the net cost fits your budget, then thereās no harm in applying ED and that may in fact be the only way to have a realistic shot at acceptance. But it will be an uphill battle to get in, because generous schools are also competitive schools, and high need puts your at a further disadvantage. (Although, you arenāt a $0 EFC student so the disadvantage isnāt as significant as it could be.) But NYU likely is not the right school to shoot that shot at. Have you run the NPC for Lehigh? Thatās one that could be worth evaluating - not too far from home, needs-met aid, strong engineering.
No, my family can afford those colleges without the job, I was just wondering if thatās an option for me later on. But I am able to pay regardless of the job
yes! they work in this country. so they are able to pay for my college tuition- I donāt need to rely on a job of my own
But can they pay a LOTā¦because some of your colleges might actually costā¦a lot.
I talked with my GC before and she said I donāt qualify for the 7 free SUNY applications- thatās because both my school and I donāt qualify as economically disadvantaged and that is true. Which is fine because I can afford the application fees.
They can pay in the 20-30k range that Iāve seen with the instate SUNYs 
Iāve confirmed this with them so I know theyāre viable
Awesome. Itās good to have confirmation that you will be able to afford the schools.