<p>Are there any full tuition scholarships for transfer students in the city?</p>
<p>I have a 4.0 GPA, and many EC's.</p>
<p>I don't care how crappy the school is, I just want to go for free in the city.</p>
<p>I’m assuming, you’re talking about New York City, and specifically Manhattan.</p>
<p>If so, Columbia, NYU, Yeshiva University, The New School, Pace University, and CUNY, are I believe, all the four year comprehensive colleges in Manhattan.</p>
<p>The “crappiest” of all of them is CUNY, specifically, City College of New York. But that’s in Harlem, which may not be attractive to you.</p>
<p>If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. I’m a life-long resident of the NYC area.</p>
<p>Full free rides for transfer students just DO NOT EXIST. Especially not at the schools in Manhattan (if you’re even talking about NYC) and ESPECIALLY not at the schools listed. </p>
<p>Unless you do something extraordinary, there are NO free scholarships for transfer students. (By ‘extraordinary’, I mean “transfer to Cooper Union” and be one of the TWENTY students they accept a year. All Cooper Union students go for free, but it’s an architecture/art/engineering college.)</p>
<p>NYU DEFINITELY does not have them, we have the worst transfer student financial aid.</p>
<p>The closest thing to a free ride that he can get, would probably be from CUNY. Their tuition is only $12,849, and their average financial aid package is $5,215. But with a perfect 4.0 GPA, he’ll be getting more than that just the average package. In CUNY, he’ll come close to a free-ride, if not get it.</p>
<p>Even for OOS? I’m a NYCer too and I had close to a free ride for the year and a half I was at a CUNY. Most of that money came from a scholarship that was offered to NYC HS graduates with a certain GPA.</p>
<p>Who knows. I’m sure he can get a scholarship with that stellar GPA. Not all scholarships in CUNY are for native New Yorkers. </p>
<p>BTW, It’s a real shame in this country, if a student with completely perfect grades, can’t get over $8,000 in aid.</p>
<p>Also, OP, why the city? Don’t get me wrong, I love the city as much as the next guy, but com’n, “I don’t care how crappy the school is”? That’s a bit ridiculous.</p>
<p>Sorry to break it to you, but the city isn’t that special to not care how crappy a school is as long as it’s in the city.</p>
<p>There are many great, affordable schools in NJ (the OP’s home state). I would way rather go to a good school in suburban NJ, than go to a “crappy” school in Manhattan.</p>
<p>People think of the city like it’s some sort of holy land. Especially people from NJ, who haven’t seen much of it. They’re a bit delusional.</p>
<p>Frankly, I think the OP is trying to go to college for all the wrong reasons. You shouldn’t sacrifice the quality of the education you’ll receive, for being in a city where you can catch a Broadway show.</p>
<p>I go to one of CUNY’s CC and it’s not free. I have scholarships that I was given because I graduated from a NYC HS but they don’t cover all of my tuition as missamericanpie said. I still have to pay some money. I would get a free ride if I qualified for fin-aid but I don’t, my parents make too much money for me to get fin-aid at a CC.</p>
<p>To be honest, this isn’t a great time to transfer to any of the CUNY schools. The NY state TAP just lowered their funds which means that the likely hood of you getting a good fin-aid package is slim. NYC is going through a serious budget crisis. Am assuming you are an OOS, so TAP does not apply to you but if you are depending on fin-aid I would pass.(Am not discouraging you)</p>
<p>I agree with Jerzey Jon though, the CUNY schools are horrible. Their cheap but they have alot of issues.</p>
<p><quote>People think of the city like it’s some sort of holy land. Especially people from NJ, who haven’t seen much of it. They’re a bit delusional.</quote></p>
<p>I agree…when I was in high school, I would have done anything to move to the city; any city. Your school quality really will have an impact on you, whether or not you think that you can deal with anything so long as you’re in “The City”. As you begin to realize that the city isn’t a vacuum of merriment that you may believe it to be from the outside (and by ‘you’, obviously I mean ‘me’ too), you’ll find that even your school, your only refuge, can give you no help at all.</p>
<p>The New School won’t give any aid, either. The best bet, I think, would be to look up “best financial aid packages” (on Princeton Review and other review sites), and go to each school and try to figure out by their wording whether they are friendly toward transfer students. These will usually be the highly selective schools…</p>
<p>CUNY Colleges seem to have a stark lack of Transfer student aid, especially for OOS students. I have been going to a commuter junior college, and I have made the most out of it. I honestly feel like I can make the most out of any college that I head to, and I want to live in the city so that I can rent an apartment with my girlfriend.</p>
<p>I hope you’re rich cause there is no way you can afford to live in the city. Even the rich people who lived in the city has moved to other boros because it’s too expensive. Paying for rent is one thing, but you have to eat, pay bills etc. Plus life in NYC ain’t easy and it’s miserable, so if you think it’s anything like whats shown on tv then you’ll be disappointed. There are so many people here struggling to get by it’s not even funny.</p>
<p>I encourage you to really think about this.</p>
<p>I’ve heard the same thing, someone told me, if you are not going to NYU or Columbia-- (or Fordham in Manhattan) then skip the city, but its your choice</p>