@VANYU2021Mom – you posted last year that NYU awarded your DD “CAS scholarships and work study” – http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/20496932/#Comment_20496932 –
If your daughter received work study, then the award package would have had to have been need-based. Work-study grants can only be awarded to meet unmet need.
But I’d note that’s not really relevant to the discussion here – that NYU only grants generous aid to a very small fraction of admitted students; for the others is very stingy with aid and will not substantially increase awards on appeal – and also that NYU pushes PLUS loans on families to a greater extent than other colleges, with an average annual parent PLUS loan debt of $32,495 (with almost $170 million in federal dollars flowing to NYU each year).