My daughter completed the application and set up that my ex-husband is emailed so he can complete his portion for the financial aide. The site states that email sent but he stated he never received it despite her submitting to him on 3 separate occasions. Although is was his fault of not alerting her that he never received the email and the deadline was missed, she will not be receiving any financial aide to attend NYU. How did this happen? We are all devastated. Any advice on how to follow up? If indeed this was a glitch on the website why should my daughter be penalized?
It is your responsibility to make sure all required submissions are submitted. It is NOT NYU’s job to do that.
Has the non-custodial parent form been filed…yet? If so, contact NYU and ask them what this means.
If not…does your kiddo have acceptances that don’t require this information?
Just be advised…even IF your forms had been submitted on time, NYU might still have been unaffordable. The school does not guarantee to meet full need for all students…and they don’t. And it’s expensive.
But give them a call.
The Profile was available for submission October 1. That’s almost 6 months ago…and really lots of time to resolve this BEFORE the deadline passed.
But call NYU and ask them.
The deadline was for February 20th and she advised several times that the college board will be emailing him so he could set up his account. She sent it to him via the college board portal 3 times. He never notified her that he never received until she received her acceptance yesterday. When looking for financial aide information she noticed that his section was listed as no response received. When she called him today, that is when he told her nothing was received and assumed that his information was no longer needed. he has never been involved in her school and it was like pulling teeth for her to get his email address. In the event he is telling the truth that nothing was received, how can this be followed up if there was indeed a glitch? NYU agates that it was too late.
@nancy168 What was the NPC for you for NYU. NYU is awful with providing need aid and often unaffordable. How much need based aid did you need?
Have you contacted collegeboard.org, https://pages.collegeboard.org/contact-us#css, to request a trace history of the email? Or, is there a chance that the email was delivered to the father’s junk/spam mail? I hope this helps. Good luck!
Thanks will follow up
Another question: did your daughter ever receive any notices from NYU, either via her email and/or NYU portal, stating that this information was needed before the 2/20 deadline?
Was there a way for your daughter to check for items completed on her NYU portal?
Yes she did and checked with her father and he checked his spam junk mail and saw nothing. I will definitely follow up with the link you sent for them to trace the email
Full tuition would be 75K per year. Would need the most 60k. As I’m a single mom and have another daughter in college
@nancyf68 There is almost no chance that she would get 60k a year off 75k. NYU is HORRIBLE with need aid. What is her safety? Or stats?
She has a 3.7 GPA and scored 1320 on SAT
Does she have other acceptances with sufficient aid or low enough costs to attend?
She was accepted to Stevens Institute of Technology and has received scholarships that will cover half of the tuition. NYU was her first choice.
Can you afford Stevens?
No instate public university applications? What state are you from that this wouldn’t have been a choice.
We live in NY
@nancy168 No SUNYs? Can’t she still apply to those?
there is a STEM scholarship at all SUNY schools that pays tuition. Yes, there is a commitment to stay in the state afterward.
But really instate costs for SUNY schools is modest…
No applications to any SUNY schools?
You cannot be devastated if Stevens and NYU were your only schools. the ex isn’t even obligated to do the NCP part but even if he did, what difference would it have made? What uni does your college DD attend?
Stevens half off scholarship is only half off tuition, the COA is @ 70 000. Where are you getting 44K a year? Your Ex isn’t the problem here at all. What is your FAFSA EFC?
If it was “pulling teeth” just to get the ex’s email address and he’s never been involved with her schooling, then I’d wager that he’s lying about never have received the emails. I bet he never had any intention of filling out the form. The idea of tracing the emails, even if nyu agreed to do that, is really just silly. The emails were sent, he ignored them. Having nyu trace and say that the emails were truly sent to his email address gets you nothing. Heck, maybe he purposely gave you all an incorrect email address. Have your daughter send him an email, not related to this at all, and see if he responds.
This is all sad, yes, but with that average SAT for NYU, it is highly doubtful that your daughter would have rec’d much from them anyway. NYU’s need-based aid essentially has a merit component…meaning that even with need, the student needs high stats in order for nyu to open it’s pursestrings.
Try running nyu’s online net price calculator with just your financial info and copy/paste the results in your thread… if the results are inadequate with just your info, imagine how bad the results would be if your ex’s info had been included.