<p>If your middle class with two working parents then yes. My mom works part time as a nurse and my dad is a firefighter. We are by no means wealthy and if it werent for all those loans, I would have never been able to go to NYU. I understand that they have many students and times are tough, but I still feel like they could do so much more for some of us who really dont have money to spare. I’m going to have debt for a long, long time, but I’m hoping with a degree from NYU I can secure a good job to pay it all back. We really got very little from them, and even after going in to speak with them on several occasions throughout the year, they were never able to find more funds because they “over budget”.</p>
<p>Side question: what do you mean by NYU’s “questionable racial and gender diversity”? NYU seems to be VERY diverse in both of those areas…</p>