<p>Hi everybody! I'm a high school junior and I was wondering if any of you could tell me if theres any chance of me getting a full ride to NYU. My single mom only gets about 30,000 if we're lucky cuz you know he job market. What do you guys think my chances are? We really can't afford to pay a lot, but NYU is my dream school! Thank you!</p>
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<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/new-york-university/961156-has-anyone-ever-been-given-full-ride-scholarship-nyu.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/new-york-university/961156-has-anyone-ever-been-given-full-ride-scholarship-nyu.html</a></p>
<p>From former posts, full rides to NYU are rare. To get a full ride, a student has to have tippy top test scores and GPA. </p>
<p>NYU often does NOT care that you’re from a lowish income family. They will gap you or include large loans (that your parent must qualify for and are a bad idea).</p>
<p>Also, much can depend on the NYU college that you apply to. Some of the NYU colleges have little/no scholarships to give.</p>
<p>Since you need a lot of aid, do not get your hopes up with NYU.</p>
<p>4kidsdad has directed you to a good thread. </p>
<p>Just to let you know the way it works, getting a full ride ANYWHERE is not easy, especially when it involves getting your room, board and expenses paid, and that means without loans or other self help. It’s very, very rare that happens. </p>
<p>There is an old thread about full ride scholarships by Momfromtexas that gives you a good idea where to look, how to look, for as close to a full ride as one can get. </p>
<p>NYU has given generous awards to those they most want, often out of staters, high test score kids and other things they are seeking to get. If you love the school, certainly put it on your list, but make sure you have some schools that you know you will be able to afford that will take you to make sure that base is covered. Then you can buy all of the lottery tickets you can manage.</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone for this, if it helps, I got a 2350 on my first try at the SAT. I also am doing a med internship at a pediatric neuroscience clinic, which is the career in pursuing. And I’m and out of stater.</p>
<p>Gelila, yes, you do have a shot at a generous package from NYU, but it is not a sure thing. My friend’s son got a very nice package with stats like yours, and they were not a full need family. He got his best aid offer from NYU which can happen. NYU tends to integrate their packages with federal money which some schools do not do which can give additional leeway when you are tight on money.</p>
<p>I would, in your case, also apply to some school that guarantee to meet full need and have a no loan, all grant aid policy or a limited loan policy, especially since it looks like med schools and loans for that are in your future. Look at Columbia, and the ivies. Look for some guaranteed full rides.based on your stats.</p>
<p>It doesn’t matter that you’re OOS for NYU. NYU is private, so that doesn’t matter. That only matters for state schools.</p>
<p>since you do have high stats, you would have a good chance at good aid. HOWEVER, since you’d need a “full ride”, get THAT may not be possible at NYU. </p>
<p>So, while you might be given a $25k per year merit scholarship for your high test scores, it’s unknown how NYU would cover the remaining $35k…since the school does NOT meet need.</p>
<p>Is NYU now requiring CSS Profile? Is it not requiring the financial info of the non-custodial parent, too? If so, then this student may have to consider that as well.</p>
<p>Since you do have high stats, you need to include schools that meet 100% of “need.” But, again, if you have a NCP, then that may be an issue. Is your dad alive? Does he have a good income?</p>
<p>Actually, Mom2collegekids, it can matter if you are OOS for NYU. OOS and not from the surrounding states, does give students applying to NYU a bit of a boost. So it is with a number of private colleges. It isn’t the same situation as the state school, but a lot of selective colleges want the geographical diverstity, and though they can fill their classes with well qualified local and within an hour commute kids as well as those in the state itself, they want some kids from other states and areas. </p>
<p>Given the OP’s stats, I give her a good chance of NYU acceptance and close to a full ride–I didn’t catch the part about a NCP in the situation here, but yes, that would be a consideration in most all schools that tend to meet full need. If that is an issue, the OP should also look at those schools that do not ask for NCP financials. </p>
<p>However, NYU does not tend to just leave the PELL and the Stafford out of the aid packages for their full need students. at least from what I have seen, and with the OP’s stats, she is a good contender for some schools that would. Getting a no loan package would be very nice and is possible here. But not likely at NYU.</p>
<p>Ok well about the other parent, my father, after they go divorced moved out of the country and was never heard of. That’s really all there is. Also since NYU seems to be rough, what other colleges could I go for? I’m pursuing neuroscience and psych double major or neuropsych if available. And I really don’t want a traditional college campus, and near a big city. Preferably NYC, which is why I considered Columbia, but I heard its a crapshoot so it’s not too definite.</p>
<p>Give a look at Fordham. I think you could do very well there.</p>
<p>WHat you want as a major is very specific and specialized. You need to compile a list of colleges that can provide this opportunity. I also suggest that you look at some alternativer majors. Most students change their majors. To tie yourself to something so narrow and miss some other great opportunities would be a shame. My friend’s son just had to be a micro biology major with certain requirements which eliminated a lot of good possibliitles for him. Two months into the school year he switched majors to something far more general so ended up paying more than double for his education because he did not look at some less expensive options like his own state university because he wanted some narrow major. Many doctors go into neuropsych, in fact most of them, do so from backgrounds other than that double major you want to have as an undergrad. It’s not like you have to do that in order to do get where you want, and you may pay dearly for that option, only to find you change your mind, or it doesn’t make one bit of difference.</p>
<p>You need to file a NCP waiver for a lot of schools that do require PROFILE and should get to work on that with your counselor. The colleges are not just going to take your word on your story. You need to file a form and come up with required evidence as requested. Otherwise anyone can write off an Pain in the neck absentee parent that way. You are asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars of money, so don’t think it’s going to be easy to get. That you have the numbers and the proflie is just step one of the process. For financial aid, there is proof required of every thing you put down on the forms. So that’ not all there is, as far as the schools giving money want to know. Where is he, is he supposed to give you support, can he give you support,what efforts has your mother made to get the money she should be getting out of hiim? That she wrote things off as too much trouble to get , does not mean that a school is going to want to come up with the money she should have fought to get. Why should they? On the other hand, some schools will let it go. It all depends on the way the financial aid office is structured.</p>
<p>I don’t know how “rough” NYU will be for you. For some people it was the best financial aid package, as I said earlier. If you want money, you should have a number of alternatives on your list so that if one thing does not come through, another will. Schools do not part with their money easily. THe schools with the most generous awards are the hardest to get into because more people want those awards and they also tend to be the better known schools.</p>