How much are you paying at NYU, all in?

[Anonymous]

Depending on the major try Emory or Rice. Better schools in lovely cities. Atlanta can't genuinely compare to New York but it's getting there. Houston is hot but has a lot of job opportunities. Also, these schools have much better financial aid.

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Anonymous wrote:No, you cannot. NYU is *fantastically* expensive and offers a wide range of majors which are fun, but cannot come close to covering student loan payments. After graduation, your daughter gets stuck in New York, because ew, why go back to the sticks? You will be subsidizing her apartment for the next ten years while she waits for her underwater basket weaving career to take off.

This. 400k for gender studies or some such nonsense.

This is same for any other more elite schools.

Imagine you are a middle class, so didn't get any aid, majoring in gender studies, theater, etc. at Princeton or Yale

Middle class get aid at those top institutions. Mine did. I think the aid there is significantly better than nyu. They also have good job prospects in these fields. Mine is in theatre. Don't knock what you don't know!

What's your definition of middle class.
I go by data not by some isolated claims on internet.

Looks like a T20 school Northwestern is one of the top schools for theatre.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?147767-Northwestern-University&fos_code=5005&fos_credential=3

it's like minumum wage.

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I’m the parent of the kid who got a full tuition scholarship based on talent. Let your kid apply but let them know it depends on aid. We are middle class and we didn’t anticipate NYU would be so generous but it was. There is no way we could have afforded NYU without the scholarship. It was more generous than other schools and came in cheaper than our instate. NYU guarantees dorm space for entering freshmen who stay four years so they don’t have to move off-campus but those kids who do can move out to Queens or Brooklyn to save money.

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Anonymous wrote:don't do it! The housing costs are obscene. Then your kid will want to stay in NYC for a summer program or internship and you now have more housing costs. Then there is food and drink. Ubers to airport. Ubers to get around town. Parents who have done this have really regretted it.

Internships often pay for housing.

Not sure about NYU, but at a nearby university, a meal plan covered dining and drink.

To and from airport is usually by subway, approximately $10-15 to JFK and Newark; $3, La Guardia. There were times when we resorted to Uber for safety reasons.

There is no subway to
LaGuardia. For JFK you have to get off and then switch to Uber or bus. For Newark you have to go to
Penn station before you can get on the subway and even that costs money. And FWIW what parent would want their kid in the subways in NYC now?

Internet search is your friend. For JFK, you take A train from NYU straight to Howard beach and then transfer to the Air train, it's right at the subway station there. It's faster than Uber.

My kids take NYC subways every day.

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https://nyunews.com/news/2021/11/15/nyu-meets-applicants-financial-need/

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I think paying NYU tuition is different than paying many other college tuitions. You are purchasing an academic education BUT you are also purchasing the experience of living in one of the most iconic and dynamic cities in the world. Just a fact. To me that is the difference (and I am not a NYU booster as I do not care for NY).

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Anonymous wrote:https://nyunews.com/news/2021/11/15/nyu-meets-applicants-financial-need/

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They use CSS and are notoriously stingy. This is not the same as meeting full need according to the fafsa

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Anonymous wrote:I think paying NYU tuition is different than paying many other college tuitions. You are purchasing an academic education BUT you are also purchasing the experience of living in one of the most iconic and dynamic cities in the world. Just a fact. To me that is the difference (and I am not a NYU booster as I do not care for NY).

That's true, but OP is wondering if they can afford it or not. Whether or not you can afford something has nothing to do with its unique qualities.

[Anonymous]

Unless there is some need based aid or rare merit scholarship, its going to cost you about half a million, if you count everything.

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Anonymous wrote:https://nyunews.com/news/2021/11/15/nyu-meets-applicants-financial-need/

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They use CSS and are notoriously stingy. This is not the same as meeting full need according to the fafsa

Actually, they only use CSS for freshman year and then they use Fafsa - and, for what it’s worth, I don’t know any top 30 private that meets full need based on Fafsa. My kids applied to lots of meet full need schools and got plenty of offers - not one met the Fafsa efc and not one school calculated our need the same way. (CSS doesn’t give you an Efc the way Fafsa does.). My family income was low six figures with a family size of two (single mom and kid was the youngest) and NYU gave my kid $55k in grants and scholarship money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://nyunews.com/news/2021/11/15/nyu-meets-applicants-financial-need/

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They use CSS and are notoriously stingy. This is not the same as meeting full need according to the fafsa

Actually, they only use CSS for freshman year and then they use Fafsa - and, for what it’s worth, I don’t know any top 30 private that meets full need based on Fafsa. My kids applied to lots of meet full need schools and got plenty of offers - not one met the Fafsa efc and not one school calculated our need the same way. (CSS doesn’t give you an Efc the way Fafsa does.). My family income was low six figures with a family size of two (single mom and kid was the youngest) and NYU gave my kid $55k in grants and scholarship money.

Unless they reevaluate your aid package every year, that's standard because FAFSA is all that is needed for federal loans. PP posted that NYU is excited to be meeting full need, but for anyone applying the fact that it's not EFC they are meeting is important.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://nyunews.com/news/2021/11/15/nyu-meets-applicants-financial-need/

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They use CSS and are notoriously stingy. This is not the same as meeting full need according to the fafsa

NYU is notoriously stingy.

Most private universities (even generous ones) use CSS and those that promise to meet full need do so according to their own formulas, not FAFSA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://nyunews.com/news/2021/11/15/nyu-meets-applicants-financial-need/

'
They use CSS and are notoriously stingy. This is not the same as meeting full need according to the fafsa

Actually, they only use CSS for freshman year and then they use Fafsa - and, for what it’s worth, I don’t know any top 30 private that meets full need based on Fafsa. My kids applied to lots of meet full need schools and got plenty of offers - not one met the Fafsa efc and not one school calculated our need the same way. (CSS doesn’t give you an Efc the way Fafsa does.). My family income was low six figures with a family size of two (single mom and kid was the youngest) and NYU gave my kid $55k in grants and scholarship money.

Unless they reevaluate your aid package every year, that's standard because FAFSA is all that is needed for federal loans. PP posted that NYU is excited to be meeting full need, but for anyone applying the fact that it's not EFC they are meeting is important.

Again, everyone re-evaluates their package every year but instead of relying on rumors (“they’re stingy”), I’m actually telling you my experience with family members who went there and, in both cases, they were the most generous option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, you cannot. NYU is *fantastically* expensive and offers a wide range of majors which are fun, but cannot come close to covering student loan payments. After graduation, your daughter gets stuck in New York, because ew, why go back to the sticks? You will be subsidizing her apartment for the next ten years while she waits for her underwater basket weaving career to take off.

This. 400k for gender studies or some such nonsense.

This is same for any other more elite schools.

Imagine you are a middle class, so didn't get any aid, majoring in gender studies, theater, etc. at Princeton or Yale

Middle class get aid at those top institutions. Mine did. I think the aid there is significantly better than nyu. They also have good job prospects in these fields. Mine is in theatre. Don't knock what you don't know!

What's your definition of middle class.
I go by data not by some isolated claims on internet.

Looks like a T20 school Northwestern is one of the top schools for theatre.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?147767-Northwestern-University&fos_code=5005&fos_credential=3

it's like minumum wage.

Yes, got excellent aid there too. As for theatre, you really don't get it. Why can't you just do you and leave things you don't know to the people who are in the field?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:don't do it! The housing costs are obscene. Then your kid will want to stay in NYC for a summer program or internship and you now have more housing costs. Then there is food and drink. Ubers to airport. Ubers to get around town. Parents who have done this have really regretted it.

Internships often pay for housing.

Not sure about NYU, but at a nearby university, a meal plan covered dining and drink.

To and from airport is usually by subway, approximately $10-15 to JFK and Newark; $3, La Guardia. There were times when we resorted to Uber for safety reasons.

There is no subway to
LaGuardia. For JFK you have to get off and then switch to Uber or bus. For Newark you have to go to
Penn station before you can get on the subway and even that costs money. And FWIW what parent would want their kid in the subways in NYC now?

Internet search is your friend. For JFK, you take A train from NYU straight to Howard beach and then transfer to the Air train, it's right at the subway station there. It's faster than Uber.

My kids take NYC subways every day.

Yup. Most of us do. The person who acted like they were scary just doesn't know the city.