<p>Just a quick follow-up on our Fin Aid experience. Son’s total anticipated cost to attend was $68,496.</p>
<p>Financial Aid package covered exactly 25%, 8% of which ($5,500) was a Tisch Scholarship. The rest was GSLs, work study and a $500 TAP grant.</p>
<p>The remaining 75% ($51,596) was not covered.</p>
<p>We did ask for a review, and explained that S’s package at his current school covered 94% of his total costs of attendance, exclusively with scholarships and grants – no loans, no work study.</p>
<p>Not that we would expect NYU to fund anything to that level, but it at least was an indication of how little we can provide toward S’s education.</p>
<p>Finally spoke with someone at NYU’s FA Office yesterday who said the awards are basically set in stone, but that if S did enroll for the Fall he might be able to appeal for more aid in the Spring.</p>
<p>Not happening, naturally.</p>
<p>Not to be ungrateful (NYU owes us nothing), but I can see why its endowment is so relatively small. How many grads leave with warm fuzzy feelings of generosity, and how many with an enormous debt load and a lot of resentment?</p>