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<p>Go to the Financial Aid and Scholarship forum and do a Search for NYU, what you will find are many people saying how NYU is expensive, not generous and how they ‘gap’ (leave room between financial need and the aid they give) students regularly.</p>
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<p>Despite it’s name, NYU is a PRIVATE college, therefore there is no such thing as residency or state aid, all students pay the same tuition.</p>
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<p>Let’s be frank, without the ability to get significant merit aid, which is very difficult as a transfer, you can’t attend any of the schools you’ve listed with little debt.</p>
<p>You need to start at square one, since you are a NY resident, you need to look at the public colleges for the state of NY:</p>
<p>[SUNY:</a> Complete Campus List](<a href=“http://www.suny.edu/Student/campuses_complete_list.cfm]SUNY:”>http://www.suny.edu/Student/campuses_complete_list.cfm)</p>
<p>[Welcome</a> to CUNY - The City University of New York](<a href=“http://www.cuny.edu/index.html]Welcome”>The City University of New York)</p>
<p>And to some extent Cornell, but it has a mix of public and private colleges within the university, so you have to be very careful and read everything closely:</p>
<p>[Cornell</a> University](<a href=“http://www.cornell.edu/]Cornell”>http://www.cornell.edu/)</p>