NYU is organized into 20+ schools, colleges and institutes. Some of these branches are known to provide non-need merit scholarships. For example, uskoolfish pointed out that those scholarships do exist within Steinhardt and are even mentioned on that school’s website. The common data set speaks for all of NYU. It doesn’t necessarily reflect what goes on in a particular school never mind a program within that school. With respect to Tisch Drama, we are still left with what the administration says and what the website implies. What happens beyond that I guess is case specific and hard to quantify.