<p>Hello, So I want to go to NYU-Poly next year (fall 2013) and I recieved generous aid for the 2013-2014 Aid year-total of $33,500 (tuition is $41,800 ish). I have no problem paying the tution for the first year, but the problem arises for the following years. </p>
<p>I have hears, that next year NYU-Poly will completely be NYU School of Engineering. I am worried that the tuition will skyrocket up, and the grant provided by poly will plummet.
All of the $33,500 was need-based (EFC=0), I missed out on a $10,000 scholarship by 10 points on SAT(I have 1390, I need 1400 for the scholarship)- I will appeal to school to give me that scholarship. </p>
<p>My question is after they merger, will the POLY Grant, which is very geneorus, stay or will it disappear- I asked the FinAid office and they said yes it will stay, but they were iffy about it. Anyone form Poly can help me here. </p>
<p>Another Question: How do I appeal Poly to give me $10,000 Scholarship-I know if they give me it will exceed tution, but I don't mind them taking some money away form the Poly Grant. This way the scholarship can be grandfathered in after the meger. </p>
<p>Currently RIT is offering me a Full Ride- actually my aid is -3,500 dollars apparently. (I am being offeref 41,000ish when tution is $38,000ish) I have the package to prove it. Can I Use it to appeal to NYU Poly to give me more aid. </p>
<p>I really want to go to Poly, but Money is a big concern. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I’m kind of in the same situation as you that my EFC is 0 and i’m committing to Poly as well. It sounds like Poly will keep this poly grant and scholarship tradition. On my acceptance letter it says that with the NYU merger, it will provide even more generous FA. I think you can use RIT’s FA package and appeal to Poly. Goodluck!</p>
<p>NYU is well known for having terrible FA. I think that assuming Poly FA will stay the same or go up is very naive.</p>
<p>@limelnlord It said that on my package too. But the fact that NYU is crap with FA, makes me doubt that. I doubt it will hold true next true. But I really want to go to Poly. I went to the Accepted Students Day yesterday, and absolutely loved it, I even made bunch of friends. </p>
<p>I am going to poly this week, to meet with a FA advisor, and negotiate. </p>
<p>You are majoring in Chem E right? Or are you one of the Comp Sci majors i met yesterday?</p>
<p>And Limenlord did you get your FA package and Acceptance letter online or in Mail. I haven’t gotten anything online, all was through mail but many got it online, so I am just wondering. thanks</p>
<p>I was questioning myself about the whole NYU and FA thing too but then I kind of do trust the fact that FA will still be generous because Poly already has its own money and then with NYU merging, I can only imagine more money being distributed to Poly… My friend that attends there said they have a 2 million surplus or something. </p>
<p>I actually didn’t go to the accepted students day yesterday ): But I heard it was fun. For your information, I’m majoring in ChemE. I’m going to try attending the next event! I went to the scholars dinner a month ago.</p>
<p>I got both my FA and acceptance letter in the mail. Then yesterday morning, they sent me an email about myPoly account and portal and i can access my FA online, register for classes, see my schedule etc thing. But it’s all empty until May or June when we register for classes I think. </p>
<p>Btw, what did i miss out at the accepted students day?</p>
<p>What is scholars dinner? I never got anything like that. Is that for Honors College students? </p>
<p>We basically go to do to labs for our majors, so I went to CS labs and it was great. Then we had a chance to talk to FA officers and Counselors and thats about it. </p>
<p>Where are you from?</p>
<p>are you going to commute?</p>
<p>How would you pay for the uncovered expenses with a 0 EFC?</p>
<p>I will commute, I will get a job to cover for those expenses.</p>
<p>NYU tends to keep its financial aid commitments to its students. Statistically, one can see this on the Common Data Sets. I believe BobWallace pointed this out. It is never a guarantee,but is standard that they would.</p>
<p>Are you trying to say that, since NYU give me good aid this year, It will give me good aid next year, as long as I demonstrate need?</p>
<p>If not, what are you trying to say?</p>