<p>I've been hearing about how bad the FA is at NYU. What are the stats of the people who get big scholarships/money to go to NYU? athletes? arts majors? business?</p>
<p>any help appreciated!</p>
<p>my son is none of the above, his scholarship $$ was 30K year 11, 31K year 2 and 32k years 3 & 4.</p>
<p>His sats were 790 match, 740 verbal and 720 in that other one.</p>
<p>HIs GPS thru junior year is 3.76. total scholarships from NYU = 125K</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply Sueinphilly. What aid did your son apply for? Could you tell us about what his EC’s and community service were?</p>
<p>You have to be the kind where you could have gone Ivy but for some reason messed it up and are attending NYU but they know you are the upper tier thus need to bump up NYU from a safety to a legit choice. What happened to me anyway haha
I have 20K the first year plus loans.</p>
<p>It also depends on the school you are trying to get into.
The CAS, which is my schools, provides scholarship for 20K
The Tisch one is 25K
Not sure about any others but it does differ among the schools. Whether amounts are tailored to each applicant I am not sure but I am under the impression that you either get it or don’t, hence NYU’s notorious awful financial aid policies.</p>
<p>he didn’t apply for any scholarships at NYU. It just showed up on his award letter. To say we cried tears of joy is an understatement. he had avg EC. He was in civil air patrol for 4 years, played volleyball for 2 years, nothing special or particularly noteworthy. he was raised ONLY by me (never met his father) and was from an inner city magnet school. </p>
<p>He is in CAS btw, a double major in politics/history</p>
<p>My EFC has been in the 12-13 K range. He never received any pell grant. He will graduate with 9600 in perkins loans and 19000 in subsidized stafford loans. I paid what wasn’t covered by scholarship/loans from my savings/income. I did not take any loans to pay the 60K or so that I will have put out over the 4 years. My salary until my son was 10 years old was under 25K. it is nearly triple that now. To say I scrimped and saved and lived like a pauper for many years to pull this off is a fact. Just replaced my 18 year old car last year.</p>
<p>I had a 4.0 gpa, but only a 1910 on my SAT. However, I got an 18k scholarship to steinhardt. But like icefire said, the big scholarships go to people who also got into ivys. I got into Cornell (shocking, I know), which is guess is why I got as much money as I did with such a low SAT score.</p>
<p>Matt- was there a specific scholarship that NYU gave you that the 18k came from?</p>
<p>yea it was two scholarships. The first was the Steinhardt scholarship for 15k, the other was the ekerhouse scholarship for 3k.</p>
<p>I heard if you apply early decision and get in, but they don’t give you the financial aid you asked for the decision becomes non binding, can someone please elaborate? Like could I just name a number and if they don’t match it the decision becomes non binding, or do they have a system that determines exactly how much I get?</p>
<p>Im getting $15,000 per year in a Silver School of Social Work scholarship. I also have a Federal Work Study.</p>
<p>hot, NYU determines aid by FAFSA formula and merit subjectively (i.e., it’s hard to know in advance what they will offer, and gapping is common). If you are accepted ED but they don’t offer enough to support attendance, you just tell them thanks but no thanks (NYU is quite used to this!) and apply RD elsewhere.</p>
<p>Here’s the Common App financial aid ED rule:
<a href=“https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf[/url]”>https://www.commonapp.org/CommonApp/docs/downloadforms/ED_Agreement.pdf</a></p>
<p>i don’t have any ECs except theatre, no leadership, no community service. U/W high school gpa was 3.81 when i applied, 3.84 at the end of my senior year. didn’t submit SAT, got a 36 on ACT. i’m getting 25k just labeled “CAS scholarship”, another 2k from national merit, and $750 in an ACG grant. oh, and i’m a biology (not prehealth) major, if that matters, but it really doesn’t.</p>
<p>“got a 36 on ACT” is the highest possible score (concordant to 1600 SAT), hence excellent merit aid! :)</p>
<p>You are very lucky to have received that kind of financial aid. I am an URM, and I only received $9,000 in scholarships so I will be graduating with $200,000 in student loans.</p>
<p>I know there is no way to know for sure, but I was really surprised reading some of these…I thought I had no chance for scholarships. I have a 2000 (1340 CR and M) on the SAT, a 3.74 uw gpa (around 4.1 weighted) and a lot of dedicated EC’s and a few leadership positions in clubs. For CAS, do you think I’d get any scholarships? I was expecting getting loans for almost all of it, since my EFC is going to be really low, and my stats seem pretty average.</p>
<p>You might get some but it would not be over 20K</p>
<p>Most students I know on big scholarships received them for specific programs. I’m in CAS and on the Women in Science (WINS) scholarship which is specifically for female science majors who were finalists or semifinalists in the Intel Siemens competition in HS. I’ve also met some students on scholarships in Tisch and Steinhardt who received it for specific programs (like Tisch’s musical theatre program, etc). In CAS I know there are also scholarships for specific programs. No idea about Stern, Nursing or SCPS though. </p>
<p>Check out this site for info on NYU scholarships:[National</a> Scholarship Competitions](<a href=“Global Student Awards”>Global Student Awards)</p>
<p>From my experience, NYU seems to give more based on merit than financial necessity. And by merit I mean mostly test scores. However, I did have a roommate with perfect grades and decent sat scores who was a “cas scholar” who had hardly any financial aid probably because they had no need for it.</p>
<p>*I am an URM, and I only received $9,000 in scholarships so I will be graduating with $200,000 in student loans. *</p>
<p>That’s insane! How will you borrow that much? No school is worth even half that much in loans. Your adult life will be ruined with that much school loan debt. How much do you think you’ll be earning upon graduation?</p>