<p>I know NYU's aid is pretty bad. There's a teacher in my school who's still paying back her debt to NYU and she's probably in her 50s already. </p>
<p>So I heard that NYU's aid consists mostly of loans. My family's income is less than NYU's tuition for one year (how incredibly sad). Will most of my aid (should I actually get into the school) be in loans, even though I obviously cannot pay for NYU?</p>
<p>Why does NYU have such horible finaid anyway?</p>
<p>NYU usually offers scholarships and grants to the top 5% of applicants. Ranging from $1,000 - 25,000.</p>
<p>From what I’ve noticed, NYU maxes out loans at $25,000. All the rest will probably need to be outside scholarships/grants or private loans.</p>
<p>Lol.</p>
<p>NYU does not appeal to students needing financial aid.</p>
<p>don’t apply</p>
<p>Um. I already did. NYU isn’t my ONLY school. I was just wondering what their financial aid package would be like.</p>
<p>I got a grant for 15k/year and loans for my financial aid. Definitly apply for outside grants and stuff because NYU’s aid won’t cover it. I wouldn’t say you shouldn’t apply, though.</p>
<p>Our son would like to be a film maker.</p>
<p>We will not qualify for need based financial aid, so we have a really hard time justifying sending him to NYU or USC if he gets in unless he gets some kind of merit based consideration.</p>
<p>We feel bad because they are supposedly the best and most well connected schools for film and yet the full tuition just seems too high.</p>
<p>Question:Is there any point in sending in FAFSA info to USC and NYU? Won’t it hurt his chances for any merit based scholarships when they see we have had a good income for the past few years? (We use most of it to go back into our business, but it still shows up as income.)</p>