<p>the paper i recieved just has the "suggested loans", so does that mean i did not recieve any $? my mom is a doc, but then again she is a single parent with 2 kids........wat did you get (excluding loans), and if you dont mind...family income/siblings/etc</p>
<p>single parent with 1 son at NYU CAS (sophomore), SAT 2250
EFC ~11K
My son has 15K Trustee Scholarship and 15K Milton and Carroll Petrie scholarship. Perkins and subsidized stafford loans, 4K work study</p>
<p>If you estimated your EFC and it came out to 50K, it is not surprising that you were not offered scholarships. They are doing less merit and more need when it comes to their money.</p>
<p>sue iunno. my friend ed'ed at stern and got 15k in merit aid; his dad makes 200k a year.</p>
<p>my parents make less than 50k a year so hopefully nyu will give me a decent scholarship/financial aid in regular decision</p>
<p>I got 20k a year in CAS scholarship
and the other 15k was in financial aid(grants,TAP)
2k eligible work study
and 3k in suggested loans.(only thing that i would have to pay back)</p>
<p>So NYU overall gave me alittle over 40k a year =D</p>
<p>How likely are appeals successful? Were there any scholarships that came along in the spring in addition to what ED kids got in december?</p>
<p>appeals can be suceessful. I had recieved an original 22K in scholarships and grants, however I asked for an appeal. It went through and I recieved an additional 3K. </p>
<p>The financial aid counselor said that appeals usually consist of an additional 1-6K, dependable on your status, and It took about a week for my appeal to go through.</p>
<p>I thought NYU was going to stop doing merit aid this year and focus on need-based? </p>
<p>Though I'm not sure which would help me more, yet.</p>
<p>I only got like 10 grand. :/ I know, I should be grateful that I got anything at all, but I still have to find a way to get 40 K in other scholarships.</p>
<p>what exactly are merit scholarships based on?</p>
<p>Someone on here said they aren't really merit scholarships in the true sense of being merit-only. If you have need, you may get a pretty nice scholly. But I don't really have first hand knowledge of this.</p>