NYC College Visit Suggestions Requested

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<p>Daughter has her heart set on a college in or near New York City, but would need merit aid to make that happen. EFC has to be no more than $30K. GPA = 3.55 UW, 3.725 Weighted, SAT=1230 so far, NHS, band and Japanese club. So, this won't be happening at NYU or Fordham. We can probably visit one or two schools in NYC later this summer, and I would appreciate any suggestions that might be realistic for her.</p>

<p>She would probably major in a humanities / social science field, and she might be interested in law school later on. So far, I'm thinking Wagner College on Staten Island, but I don't know much about it.</p>

<p>Thanks for any suggestions you might have.</p>

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<p>Wagner is a terrific school, but very small and it doesn’t give full rides. However it is a beautiful campus with a shuttle bus to the ferry. There is also a St. John’s campus on Staten Island. It is neighbors with Wagner, so you should hit both on the same trip. There are some schools right in New Jersey which are super close to manhattan, like rutgers, seton hall, drew, Fairleigh Dickinson. Marist is a fantastic school at easy commuting distance.</p>

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<p>I can’t speak to merit $, but there are lots of schools in NYC. They include:</p>

<p>All of the CUNYs; while they might not offer merit money, they are comparatively inexpensive
FIT–which is a SUNY
Long Island University (has a Manhattan campus, but I’m not sure which UG majors are offered there)
Manhattan College (Riverdale, the Bronx)
St. Francis College (Brooklyn)
St. John’s U
St. Joseph’s College
Mt. St. Vincent
Marymount Manhattan
Eugene Lang/New School
Stern/Yeshiva, if you are Jewish
(Some of the others are Catholic, but most have non-Catholic students too.)</p>

<p>Of course, there are other specialized schools, like Pratt and Parsons, Cooper Union, etc.</p>

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<p>Will she consider a suburban campus on Long Island or NJ or CT or slightly upstate NY where she can get into the city easily? If so, that would open the options a hundredfold!</p>

<p>Otherwise, Queens College or Fordham might be worth a look.</p>

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<p>Schools on Long Island ( Nassau County)- Hofstra, Adelphi, CW Post, SUNY Old Westbury. She would probably get great merit aid to Post; not sure about the others </p>

<p>Try the CUNYs- Hunter, Queens, Brooklyn College
Westchester- Marist College
You can also try Ramapo in NJ and some of the Rockland County schools- Dominican and St. Thomas Aquinas.</p>

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<p>Also note that the CUNYs–Queens, Brooklyn, Hunter, and CCNY–have dorms so you won’t have to pay NYC rents. When last I checked, they didn’t have meal plans but they were talking about the possibility.</p>

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<p>You can also try SUNY Farmingdale in western Suffolk County- an easy ride into the city on the LIRR. The school recently turned into a four year school. You can also try Stony Brook. Although it’s further out on the Island it’s still not a bad train ride into the city. The SUNYs come in at about $30,000 for OOS without merit aid.</p>

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<p>I would not say that Fordham is out of the question.</p>

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<p>There is also Pace University with campuses in Westchester and lower Manhattan. My friend’s daughter received merit aid with lower stats than your daughter.</p>

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<p>Pace university, that’s where I’m going if you want info I can help. Also try city college, Brooklyn and queens, Manhattan college, LIU, SUNY purchase </p>

<p>I think everyone up to now has nailed it</p>

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<p>Also in Westchester is SUNY Purchase, best known for the arts, but it does in fact offer a wide variety of other majors. Your daughter’s scores are just above their middle percentile.</p>

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<p>The student seems admissible at Fordham but is not likely to get enough merit aid to bring the COA to 30K:</p>

<p>[Traditional</a> Rose Hill and Lincoln Center Fordham University Aid](<a href=“http://www.fordham.edu/tuition__financial_a/undergraduate_studen/types_of_financial_a/traditional_rose_hil_2158.asp]Traditional”>http://www.fordham.edu/tuition__financial_a/undergraduate_studen/types_of_financial_a/traditional_rose_hil_2158.asp)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the ideas, everyone! It has given us a lot more options to research.</p>

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<p>Dorma at the CUNYs are VERY limited, and unlikely anyone other than Honors students will get it. There are “private” dorms, but I wonder about supervision (and they are very expensive, and not generally located on campus).</p>

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<p>Is the 1230 on all three sections, or just CR+M?</p>

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<p>Marist is in Dutchess County, not Westchester.</p>

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<p>If we knew why, that would help.</p>

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<p>Though Staten Island is certainly in NYC and Wagner is in the NE corner of the borough, it is about an hour and a half away from midtown Manhattan.</p>

<p>So, again, the question I posed above is important – what exactly about NYC interests your d? I’m pretty sure it is not Staten Island.</p>

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No it isn’t. Also there are shuttle buses right to the ferry. I agree that the likelihood is that the student/family is not interested in Staten Island, but who knows? Maybe she is interested in musical theater and a truly stunning campus with no diversity. Stranger things have happened.</p>

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<p>SUNY New Paltz is also a pretty easy trip from Manhattan, and Hofstra is very popular.</p>