<p>@tramsmom I don’t think that Steinhardt gives that much money in merit aid. Older D did get that $11K a year, but remember that was back in 2008. And she had attended the Steinhart MT summer program, worked with their full-time faculty and was told that she didn’t need to audition for the program (that her work that summer was her audition.) So I would say that her award was on the high end of what they award without need. In subsequent years, I heard that NYU was giving out even less merit $. Based on that, I assumed that it was unlikely my younger D would get much more than $5k to $10K/ year in merit money (if any at all) if she waited to apply RD. So we did forgo the chance for merit money by letting her apply ED1. We wanted to get the process over with, knew we would send her to NYU anyway since her sister went, and wanted to show her portfolio early since It was ready to go anyway and we felt her odds would be higher for acceptance in ED.</p>
<p>The only thing I will say is that Steinhardt shows on the NYU website that they give merit aid, whereas Tisch is not listed on the NYU main site as offering anything.</p>
<p><a href=“Aid and Costs”>Aid and Costs;
<p>This is all that I’ve found about Tisch:</p>
<p><a href=“Student Affairs”>Student Affairs;