<p>I have found that aid really changes person to person. Sometimes there isn’t really any rhyme or reason for it. NYU pays a lot of my tuition costs, but I have known people who have struggled to pay. The only advice that I can give you is to approach that issue when the time comes. It shouldn’t effect the application you write now. </p>
<p>As for dorms, you rank which dorms you want on the NYU albert website when the time comes. ED students get placed first, which means that Hayden usually full of ED students. I got my second choice as a freshman, Third North. You fill out a roommate questionnaire if you don’t want to choose your roommate and NYU will place you with someone. You can elect to find your own roommate, but most people I know were random. Sometimes a random roommate works out, sometimes not.</p>