nyu financial aid

Paying for College
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<p>You really should start a new thread and not revive a very old one.</p>

<p>Don’t expect much/any aid from NYU…especially as an int’l. And, since you already have a bachelors degree, that may limit aid consideration as well. </p>

<p>NYU offers limited financial support in the form of institutional grants/scholarships to international freshmen admitted to our New York campus beginning with the Fall 2013 term. Grants/scholarships will be based upon a combination of financial need and academic merit.
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<p>Your ability to work will be very limited in this country as an int’l. And, you will have to show all funding for the entire year (including housing, personal expenses, insurance, etc) before you’d be given a visa. So, you’ll have to show funding for over $60k each year.</p>

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<p>Just wanted to make sure you know that the tuition and fees is a little higher and does not take into account living expenses. Found this chart and thought it might be helpful (in case you had not found it). [Estimated</a> Expenses](<a href=“http://www.nyu.edu/life/student-life/international-students-and-scholars/legal-matters/obtaining-and-maintaining-status-/change-of-program-/expense-table.html]Estimated”>http://www.nyu.edu/life/student-life/international-students-and-scholars/legal-matters/obtaining-and-maintaining-status-/change-of-program-/expense-table.html) … this chart is from last academic year. </p>

<p>If you already have an undergraduate degree have you considered pursuing graduate training or a post graduate certificate? It may be less expensive in the long run.</p>

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<p>Well, since i can`t use bachelor of piano do masters or so in Musical Theater, i have to go with MT bachelor… So if i understood, i have to have over 60000$ on my account them to give me the visa even thou i might be getting scholarship? our family income per year is around 55000$ which is not much in US, but it is just fine in Serbia… oh this is all so difficult, i feel like least of my trouble are my auditions…</p>

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<p>If you receive a scholarship from NYU, you will be notified in April—before you need to apply for your visa.</p>

<p>But, yes, you will need to demonstrate that you have sufficient funding to pay for your tuition and living expenses for a full year before you are granted a visa to enter the US.</p>

<p>(And I don’t know where you’re getting your ideas, but the median annual family income in the US is around $51,000. Most US families cannot afford to send their child to NYU.)</p>

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<p>NYU may view you as a second degree student, since you have a degree. Granted, that degree many not be in US, but you still have a bachelors. They may end up not giving you any aid at all since 2nd degrees are rarely funded with institutional aid.</p>

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<p>There are not many masters programs in MT… However, you may want to explore 1-2 year conservatory programs like CAP21, AMDA, and Circle in the Square. These are not inexpensive, BUT are leas than private four year tuition, and offer strong focused training. </p>

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<p>Does NYU give MT scholarships? If so, how much are they? Are they based on superb auditions?</p>

<p>It seems to me that many/most performing arts majors at NYU are paying full freight or near full freight (with loans).</p>

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<p>NYU does give artistic awards; it does not have a MT program per se. CAP 22 was the MT studio but I don’t think they are in the picture any more. Even most of the awards, in fact, every single one that I know about are wrapped in need, not totally merit based, and test scores were high for those kids, in addition to them being talented and going through the audition process, they were definite NYU material academically. So it was with many if not most audition programs. The academic profile is very important in most such schools. If the one in a million talent comes along with abysmal test scores and horrible grades, there might be an exception, but as a rule Tisch and any number of the schools with these programs will tell you straight up that academics is a big part of the process. </p>

<p>Julliard and some true conservatories may not care. Juilliard didn’t even ask for test scores or transcripts. You just have to show an high school degree or GED before registering for classes. Has nothing to do with the admisisions process. Not so PA schools within most universities. They care.</p>

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<p>Tisch Drama does have a MT program through the New Studio. It is an internal studio (rather than an external like Cap21 was). Steinhardt also offers a more music focused MT degree.</p>

<p>Don’t know about artistic merit awards. </p>

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<p>So, are you saying that there are artistic awards after auditions…and high SAT/ACT scores are needed? If so, how much are the awards? And are they awarded to int’ls? </p>

<p>At a school that costs $60k+ per year, a $20k per year award won’t mean much to an int’l whose family can’t pay the rest.</p>

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<p>I don’t know ANYONE with a high merit only award that goes or went to NYU. And living 25 miles from NYU, I know and knew a lot of people who go and went there. Some people got very generous financial aid from there; those with top stats, and there was some merit tucked in there that may have put them over need. I know several people for whom NYU was the most generous in need. I also know kids who were accepted to HPY as well as NYU, who got loads of all kinds of merit money, but nada from NYU though they were accepted and invited to some preferred acceptance Day event. </p>

<p>My son was accepted to NYU but not to the studio he wanted, some years ago. He did not apply to the Steinhardt school, but TIsch and he wanted Cap 21 where he was denied. THe admissions director was very clear that academics play a strong role in acceptance even in the audition based admissions process, and my son’s high school was well aware of this and apprised us of this as well. </p>

<p>I believe that there are some pure merit awards, very few, but some, but they seem to be diversity type awards. I cannot say with certainty that there are absolutely NO artistic awards or academic awards with zero need, but I’ve never heard of anyone getting any that were not packaged in a need package for any undergraduate program. I’ve heard of $1K awards, up to $4K awards, but I am pretty sure those kids also qualified for some need and, yes, they had excellent academic credentials including high SAT scores as well as being good performing artist.</p>

<p>I have no idea what they would give to any international students or if international students can even get aid from NYU. SOme schools flat out won’t give money to internationals. I had heard that there are some programs with some monies for students from different cultures with financiing, but how they work, who is eligible, how much they give, I have no idea. I don’t see NYU EVER listed in the scholarships sections at my son’s Catholic school and they have their nose in any and every place that has money. They’ll have a brag box up over a $100 award. Nada for NYU, and I would say a dozen kids go there each year from there. It’s a top choice venue for kids here in the NYC area. So why would they pay for someone from here to come to their school when there is a line miles long of people willing to pay full freight PLUS* to go? Only if the kid has super high stats or something NYU really wants and is in short supply would they even think about it. And I haven’t even seen any of that. Plus it gets a a lot of diversity in terms of nationalities, religions, ethncities without doing a lot of recruitig just because of where it is located. </p>

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<li>I say PLUS because they have some crazy program where you go for 6 years–2 years of some precollege there to go for your 4 year degree, that I know some kids are in. No money from NYU, however. They are paying at least full tution (maybe they commute) to go there, I know. And commuting from where I live even though public transportation there is available, reliable and regular is horribly expensive. It would cost over $350 a month to commute there from my home. That is just for the fares. That doesn’t count getting the student to the trains station from home, and maybe some cab fare when you get stuck. You’re really talking about $4K right off the top to commute. If you don’t bag your meals, and let’s face it, most people do not, another $10 for food and drink is not unuusual. Then you got the books and supplies. That’s on top of the tuition which is way up there. Plus if you are in Manhattan, putting on blinders is tough to all of the temptations out there which cost mega bucks.</li>
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