<p>The following is financial aid award for New Paltz</p>
<p>$4,239 TAP
$5,500 Pell
$1,000 Work/Study
$3,500 Direct Sub. Loan
$2,000 Sub. Loan<br>
Total: $16,289 out of $16, 400
I won a $2,000 scholarship for my first year so debt will be about $20,000 after college.
Do you guys think they might give me more?
Also, I want to go to Hunter for Political Science, which school is better in terms of money, financial aid, and academics.</p>
<p>Would you live at home if you went to Hunter? Would that result in no debt, and no need for work study? </p>
<p>I think both are great schools.</p>
<p>Yeah I would have to live at home if I went to Hunter and yea no debt nor work study. At the same time, I want the dorm experience.</p>
<p>You can always go to New Paltz for a year or two, and then transfer back to Hunter.</p>
<p>Yeah that makes sense, thanks for the suggestion!</p>
<p>I don’t really see the point of incurring two years of indebtedness for “the dorm experience” only to transfer back to Hunter. If you’re already in at Hunter and that’s where you really want to go, and you wouldn’t incur any debt there…why not go there?</p>
<p>Personally, I think the dorm experience is a bit overrated, and I say that as someone who lived in the dorms all four years of college and was an RA for two. It’s sometimes nice to live in the dorms, but when you go to a city school where no one lives in dorms and everyone is commuting from home or their own apartments, it’s not as important. Not to mention that at my LAC most upperclassmen moved off campus after sophomore year (and many after freshman year) so the dorm experience kind of sucked a bit after my second year of college. All of my friends were living on their own, yet my college required me to live on campus as part of my scholarship.</p>
<p>Not to mention that the college experience is largely what you make of it, and the dorm experience doesn’t have to be part of it. Also don’t forget that you’d be trading the experience of attending the same place (with the same classmates, friends, experiences, etc.) for four years for the dorm experience for two. IMO the former was more important to me, but that’s going to vary by person.</p>
<p>I agree that the dorm experience is highly overrated, but that is something many kids have to find out on their own.</p>
<p>I really don’t understand how anyone could say there is nothing to the dorm experience… I learned a lot by living in the dorms a million years ago and that includes learning to move off campus in a town a whole lot more affordable than my home town of NYC.</p>
<p>Not to mention, if my daughter chose to stay home we might kill each other!</p>
<p>I would choose New Paltz. I think you will have a mich richer overall college experience there. I think the dorm experience is a valuable one. I was communicating with a girl on CC for a while who was at Hunter and was miserable and she transferred to New Paltz.</p>
<p>It is a great privilege to have the option to have a dorm experience. That’s why it costs so much. Both schools are great, in my opinion, and I know a number of kids who have done well at each. My friend’s daughter now lives in a an apartment with roommates and commutes to Hunter and she would not trade this for any dorm experience but this does require a lot more work than simply getting a dorm room at a residential college.</p>
<p>I think that OP is better off starting at New Paltz, getting the dorm experience that OP wants, and then transferring to Hunter. OP is interested in politics. There are great internships to be had (non-paying, but OP wont need WS) in NYC. OP can go for these in upperclass years.</p>