<p>^ Unless you are one of the handful of schools that meet full need and are no-loan, IMO it is an outright lie to say you meet full need. </p>
<p>Giving someone a loan is not meeting their need, it is giving them a loan.</p>
<p>MisterK - there are many schools at/close to the price level of NYU, some are more highly rated and some are not. But NYU is the one that gets criticized. Why? Because it is popular? Over 42K students applied for admission this year (a record), but no one forced them to. And as poetgirl points out the school is upfront about the cost and lack of aid. That was our experience.</p>
<p>“Personally, I imagine that families in the 150k-250k income bracket will flock toward less prestigious schools where their children will get merit aid, as well as encourage community college transfers and trade schools.”</p>
<p>Not so sure the $250K per annum families will be flooding the tradeschools with their offspring, but you could be right.</p>
<p>FallGirl - I don’t know the answer, just what I read here. It seems that folks are very upset with NYU’s aid, and that’s part of it.</p>
<p>I agree that there are lots of these expensive privates, unfortunately. Man, they’re all too expensive in my book.</p>