Help in understanding my NYU FA offer?

Paying for College
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School of Engineering Grant Scholarship 25,585.00 25,585.00
Promise Scholarship Scholarship 2,000.00 2,000.00
Early Decision Pell Grant Grant 5,775.00 5,775.00
Early Decision Work Study Work/Study 3,000.00 0.00
Early Decision Perkins Loan Loan 2,400.00 0.00
Early Decision Subsidized Loan Loan 3,500.00 0.00
Early Decision Unsub Loan 2,000.00 0.00
Early Decision PLUS Loan 13,860.00 0.00
Aid Year Totals 58,120.00 33,360.00

SPRING

Award Description Category Offered Accepted
School of Engineering Grant Scholarship 12,792.00 12,792.00
Promise Scholarship Scholarship 1,000.00 1,000.00
Early Decision Pell Grant Grant 2,887.00 2,887.00
Early Decision Work Study Work/Study 1,500.00 0.00
Early Decision Perkins Loan Loan 1,200.00 0.00
Early Decision Subsidized Loan Loan 1,750.00 0.00
Early Decision Unsub Loan 1,000.00 0.00
Early Decision PLUS Loan 6,930.00 0.00
Term Totals 29,059.00 16,679.00

Cost of Attendance 2014-2015
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering Undergraduate Students
On/Off-Campus Commuter Student Student
Tuition and mandatory fees
(two semesters, full-time) $43,170 $43,170
School-based fees (1) 520 520
Room and board 11,364 (2) 2,190
Books and supplies 1,070 1,070
Transportation varies 1,008
Personal expenses 2,000 2,000
Total budget $58,124 $49,958

International student here, thank you!

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Your links don’t work, some websites are blocked. Better to copy and paste the info here. Show the offer and the Costs of Attendance.

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it’s hard to format it but there you go

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I’ll bite. You are an international student. Is that the case? If so, you would not be eligible for any U.S. federally funded aid, including the Pell Grant, Perkins Loans, Unsubsidized and Subsidized loans, and RH Plus Loans.

How would you have received the above package as an international student?

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@thumper1 There were two columns to the page. “Offered” and “Accepted”. I don’t completely understand the offer; that’s why I’m asking for help. I just copy-pasted this from the offer.

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then you got the NYU Grant money…and that is all.

To me, it looks like you got $25,585 for the year plus $2000 for the year. Total…$27,585 for the year. That is your top box…the yearly totals.

You are not eligible for anything else on that aid list because you are an international student.

You can’t be OFFERED the Pell, or any of those loans because you are not a U.S. citizen. Those are supposedly in your “offered” column. You are not eligible for any of them as an international student.

I want to know…why would NYU have even offered you federally funded need based aid? Did you submit a FAFSA (which you can’t really do unless you are a citizen or green card holder)?

I don’t understand how these federally funded things are in your offered column.

NYU requires the CSS Profile. Did you complete that?

ETA…this is ED? Can you afford this school if all you get is $27,500 a year in need based aid? That leaves at least another $25,000 for you to pay per year.

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@thumper1 I completed the CSS Profile, yes. I never attempted to fill out the FAFSA form because I knew I needed to fill out the CSS Profile instead.

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This student may be eligible for

How could NYU awards international student Pell Grants?Is this student an US citizen living abroad.

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Agree with 4kids. Your aid for the full YEAR at NYU is $27,585 in grant money.

Can you pay the $30,000 or so additional costs per year tomattend this school? If not, you cannot accept this ED offer as the school is unaffordable.

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You applied ED and just got this?

I don’t understand these offers to an international student. I don’t know why they would show you a package with items you are not eligible for. Are you a permanent resident in the US?

To me the offer is your package. The accepted is what you accept. So it is assumed you accept the free money, and the loans will move to accepted when you indicate you will take them and sign the documents. They work/study is something you choose to accept or not also. But none of that would be allowed for internationals except the:

School of Engineering Grant Scholarship 25,585.00 25,585.00
Promise Scholarship Scholarship 2,000.00 2,000.00

I’m not sure why they show a year long allocation and then break out spring separately and not fall. When do you start?

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@4kidsdad No, I’m not a US citizen living abroad.

@brownparent They also showed me the fall one but I wasn’t able to include it before the edit time ran out. I start this Fall 2015.

Fall 2015
12.000
Award Description Category Offered Accepted
School of Engineering Grant
Scholarship
12,793.00
12,793.00
Promise Scholarship
Scholarship
1,000.00
1,000.00
Early Decision Pell Grant
Grant
2,888.00
2,888.00
Early Decision Work Study
Work/Study
1,500.00
0.00
Early Decision Perkins Loan
Loan
1,200.00
0.00
Early Decision Subsidized Loan
Loan
1,750.00
0.00
Early Decision Unsub
Loan
1,000.00
0.00
Early Decision PLUS
Loan
6,930.00
0.00
Term Totals

29,061.00
16,681.00

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Doesn’t matter. You are not eligible for any of those loans or the Oell Grant as an international student.

You received $27,000 or so in grant aid…and that is it. Anything else on that list, you would not be eligible for…because you are not a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.

@BrownParent‌ I’m guessing this is an ED II offer…the notification for this is February 15.

To the OP. So the question remains…can your family pay the balance of $30,000 per year to NYU? If not, you can’t afford this school.

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They send you a wrong package I would say, if you are not a US Citizen or perm resident. You need to contact them asap and tell the financial aid office that maybe you got the wrong package because there are federal aid in your package and you are an international student. There is no telling what your real package might be, this could be someone else’s.

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Monkey…on other threads, you clearly state that you need significant need based or merit aid to attend college in the United States. This package does not provide you with that.

According to other threads…here is where you applied here…MIT, NYU, Yale, Amherst, Stanford. Your SAT scores were CR 680, Math 650, Writing 660. Your SAT 2 scores were below 600.

Fortunately, you also applied to affordable colleges within your own country…so you have some options as you were accepted already there.

I think your chances of admission at MIT, Yale, Amherst and Stanford are not very good. NYU accepted you…but likely even if you contact them, you will not receive sufficient aid to attend. NYU does not guarantee to meet full need. To be honest, a $28,000 grant award is a lot of grant award from NYU. They will expect you to pay the rest.

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How much can your family pay each year for four years?

Are you aware of NYU’s well-deserved reputation about poor financial aid and related stories of life-altering (for the worse) student debt?

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You need to contact the school. Whoever filled that FA pkg somehow wrongly thought that you were a US citizen.

All you got was some grant money from them.


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Early Decision Pell Grant Grant 5,775.00 5,775.00 Early Decision Work Study Work/Study 3,000.00 0.00 Early Decision Perkins Loan Loan 2,400.00 0.00 Early Decision Subsidized Loan Loan 3,500.00 0.00 Early Decision Unsub Loan 2,000.00 0.00 Early Decision PLUS Loan 13,860.00 0.00

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You will not get ANY of the above.

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I see now that you’re an ED applicant. Likely they thought that you would be filling out FAFSA later. Somehow they overlooked that you’re an int’l.

They made mistake. They will realize that very soon, but go ahead and contact them. Maybe they’ll increase your grant once they realize that you don’t have those other aid options won’t work for you.

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NYU is known for giving very poor financial aid. It doesn’t look like you will be able to go there.

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Mom2…he is an international applicant. He cannot complete the FAFSA. Why would the school “expect” an international applicant to complete a FAFSA at a later date? His international status should have been very clear on his Profile…and on his application.

It is a huge mistake if this happened.

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^^

Like I said, the school OVERLOOKED the fact that the student is an int’l. They made a MISTAKE…that is obvious. They somehow got confused…that’s why they put in all that fed aid.

this iis what I wrote:


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I see now that you're an ED applicant. Likely they thought that you would be filling out FAFSA later. **Somehow they overlooked that you're an int'l ** <<<<

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Probably in the fog of quickly doing pkgs for ED, they made a big mistake.