<p>My son was accepted into the LSP program on 3/16. That night he went on Albert and clicked on the "referral options" button and indicated he wanted the NYC campus. About a week later he received the same letter and a book about LSP in the mail. Since then he has not had anymore communication from NYU.
We have been checking Albert daily for any financial aid news, but nothing is posted yet. The year 2012 is activated, but when we click on it it says no awards (at least there should be loans just from filling out FAFSA....). Yesterday, just to see if anything else had changed on the status page, it had a new box we hadnt seen before saying "accept/decline". We assume that is for when we decide if he will be going to NYU, and NOT to receive the "formal" admission decision that was mentioned in the original email and letter.
Has anyone else who was placed in LSP received the formal admission packet? If so, how long after indicating your campus choice on Albert?
Also, anyone else in LSP receive financial aid info yet?</p>
<p>I have the same problem. I clicked on the referral options and selected a location. On my financial aid, it doesn’t even have the year. It just says “There is no financial aid information found.”</p>
<p>…Called NYU today. Spoke to a man in financial aid. He said that no financial aid info was available for my son because we didn’t provide his SS # on the common app and he couldn’t access the fafsa. This isn’t correct as we used the common app for all the schools he applied to and he has been accepted at each school, with merit money. It would seem that these schools would have encountered the same problem. He then advisd speaking with admissions.
called admissions and spoke to a woman who said they don’t have the SS # on the common app for my son, but they do have it on the NYU supplement. for whatever reason, we must now send an email with all the pertinent info on it before they will look at any financial “stuff”. if they do not have the SS# from the common app (which, again, can’t be right)…why not just take it from the supplement?<br>
When I mentioned to the man in financial aid that we never received an email telling us that they were missing information he seemed annoyed and said they get thousands of apps and “many” people don’t give their SS # because they don’t need/want financial aid and that NYU can’t spend time trying to flesh out who unknowlingly didnt supply a SS # vs. those who withheld it on purpose.
anyway…I hope this doesn’t mean they are not planning on giving my son any merit money…it’s his first choice but just WAY too expensive.</p>
<p>nedel, Sorry to hear of your experience. This is where the worst of NYU’s bureaucratic system is evidenced. True, the numbers are great for # of applications received by NYU, but if that is the business they want to be in, then they should think about customer service. You/ your son paid the Common App fee and expect a certain level of service, like being notified of key missing info, like a social security #. Or the expectation that they can add one and one together to come up with two since they had the SS # in the supplement.</p>
<p>I hope NYU will not penalize your family for what I consider “oversight” on their part, especially since no other school had the same problem with info from your S’s Common app. Hopefully, they will be fair and give your S’s financial need full consideration.</p>
<p>By the way, I would add a note in the email stating that the “missing” social security # on the Common App was not something you had been made aware of since all other schools had received the info. You are sorry this delayed the NYU financial aid package for your son, but hope it will not be held against him and he will be given full consideration for financial aid. GL</p>
<p>nedel- I had a (kind of…sort of) similar problem…when I was first told my SSN, I was given the wrong one (typo), and that was what I ended up using for ALL my college applications (go figure). I’ve had to go through a bit of a process with some schools trying to sort it out.
the big question I have, though, is whether or not they will award you merit aid if you had issues with your SSN. a couple schools awarded me merit aid despite the confusion, but from others, I haven’t heard a thing. I don’t know if it’s because they just didn’t award me any merit aid, because there was some mysterious separate scholarship application I was not aware of that I needed to fill out, or because I had issues with my SSN.
this whole thing has been quite a mess. at this point I just kind of feel like taking a gap year that lasts forever…</p>