<p>Also things like books, travel and personal expenses I basically took out of the equation when we were comparing. Depending on how far away you are from the school will depend on the travel, plus I really just wanted to compare tuition, fees, room and board. The biggest gap I noticed in room and board was dorm rooms ranged from about 8K-20K at NYU. There seems to be a couple thousand gap between rooms/meals at most schools and the problem is with BFA kids they commit so much later than most of the other kids you don’t necessarily get the pick of your dorm. When my D was deciding between her school she was already on the waiting list for a dorm room at one University because they were all taken.</p>