<p>hi fellow ccer's </p>
<p>i am wondering whether or not to attend nyu as i have recieved 15k in scholarships, leaving my parents to pay the remaining 39k of the tuition. my only other viable option/back-up school is uc santa barbara. your opinions would be greatly appreciated along with your reasons for them...thank you.</p>
<p>i am in a similar financial position. i received a 10k trustee scholarship. so i plan on taking a private loan every year for $35k on top of the $5.5k in federal loans. i’ll end up with about $160k in loans after four years. what are you guys inputs? i know a lot of nyu students take out loans. anybody with loans to this caliber? do you guys suggest against this plan?</p>
<p>bump… I think i will go into massive debt probably 200K… need advice as well</p>
<p>frankly, is it worth it to go to a fabulous university if you’re going to be paying off debts for years and years afterward?</p>
<p>i don’t really think so. you can get a comparable, albeit not as amazing, education somewhere else for much less.</p>
<p>just a thought…</p>
<p>unless you have a cosigner, NOBODY is going to lend you 35K for 4 years. </p>
<p>DO NOT TAKE ON THAT KIND OF DEBT FOR ANY SCHOOL UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE</p>
<p>JUST GO TO UCSB AND PARTY HARD!!seriously, save the money for grad school and UCSB is only like 10 positions lower than NYU on the national rankings…UCSB ROCKS!AND NYU AS WELL.but the price…</p>
<p>it depends what you’re majoring in. It’s one thing to take on that debt when you’re going in to finance, but if your goal is to be like a history teacher or something you’ll get a good education, but you’ll be paying it off forever</p>
<p>so thanks for all the replies thus far but please keep in mind that UCSB is not exactly a cheap school either as i wont be receiving any fin aid so in total it will run me about 27 k a year to attend.(compare that to nyu 39k a year) keep the replies coming, your advice is very helpful!!!</p>
<p>I would go to a community college for 2 years and the go to a UC. At that point you can probably get UCB or UCLA.</p>
<p>I know it’s not as much fun, but it’s only 2 years and paying back huge debt is going to make life much less fun for 20 years.</p>
<p>going into that much debt for any school is nuts.</p>
<p>I’m in a similar situation and my college counselor told me that you can call NYU, tell them that they are your first choice but mention you have more scholarships/aid from another school you are considering (if that’s true). You can ask them if there’s anyway they can give you more money so you don’t have to go to the other school. Mention expenses the school doesn’t know about. (ie. your parents are still paying off their own student loans or you have other siblings in college right now) </p>
<p>Also, have you been applying for private scholarships? You should sign up for fastweb.com and apply for as many as possible.
If you can reduce it to something manageable to debt might be worth it. You should try to have it paid off by the time you’re 30 or 35.</p>
<p>if you work your butt off to get your loans down little by little while still in college (ie. work over breaks and summers, private scholarships) i think it is feasible, but only if NYU is really woth it, if youre in stern or tisch, hell yea, but if youre in CAS for math, hell no. im gonna have to take out 35 a year… but im in tisch drama double majoring in drama education or drama therapy.</p>