<p>They must give SOME aid. NYU is particularly popular with my kids' HS, and preppy we are not!</p>
<p>I think they do have a reputation for not as much aid as comparable schools.
One girl from our school who won a dance scholarship had to drop out of nyu her junior year when her single mother died from a brain tumor. She is currently touring with Savion Glover and other well know dancers, but still NYU was not very accomodating</p>
<p>Although, SBmom, I'm sure we can all think of plenty of hippie/goth/eco... kids of well-heeled parents.</p>
<p>jmmmom, you are right.</p>
<p>Garland, I don't wish to string you along, but I might just make one point about decisions--they almost always travel in packs. I don't wish to sound too much of a Bullwinkle here, "Mr. Knowitall" and all, but watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat. Nothing up my sleeve. . . Presto!
Relativity may be a fine model for describing an untraveled universe, but at some point, you've got to take a stand on objective ground. We make blanket assumptions about almost everything all the time. The value of the scientific approach is that it is based ostensibly on repeatable experiments. The validity of the RESULTS, or the value of science as a method for discovering TRUTH, however, is somewhat more problematic. I'm curious to know whether it is the assumption or the blanket that you find troubling in my hypothesis? If you poo-poo the blanket, I would give a nod of passive acquiescence; if you deny the assumption, again, I think I would have to capitulate. My only proviso would be that I don't assume, and I gave up the false comfort of blankets long ago. The decision is, in fact, well known, whether those under the blanket are aware of it or not.</p>
<p>Nah, I don't feel like rehashing your arguments. You made a bunch of assumptions, you know what they are, I think they were applied indiscriminately (thus in blanket mode). Do I feel like playing with them nor do I get "if you deny the assumption, again, I think I would have to capitulate. My only proviso would be that I don't assume" which seems to be somewhat, obviously, contradictory. </p>
<p>This discussion has gotten blanketed with obfuscation, and I think I will retire from it. But you keep playing.</p>
<p>Ah, yes. I understand where you're coming from, entirely. Sorry.</p>