<p>i was recently accepted to NYU under EDII, and i checked my financial aid package on Albert, and i received $0 in scholarships and grants. i received $5500 stafford loan and $56000 plus loan. my efc is $99999, which i know is the highest it can be, but my parents aren’t paying for my college tuition, and i certainly cannot afford $200,000+ of debt after graduation.</p>
<p>nyu has been my dream school for many years, and this is the only thing blocking me from going. is there any way i can petition for some aid? and if i can, how would i go about doing so?</p>
<p>swimdude,</p>
<p>I think you are out of luck. The EFC of $99,999 means you are way out of their consideration limits for anything aside from loans. Did you not discuss the finances with your parents before applying EDII? If you are not able to swing the full tuition, fees, room and board (if applicable), then you may have to back out of your EDII acceptance based on financial limitations.</p>
<p>Now there is a form that you can fill out, if there has been a change in your parents’ employment status, e.g., unemployment, going on disability, excessive medical expenses, etc. I will provide a link for forms you can access through the NYU Financial Aid website. The only way for them to consider giving you SOME (maybe) aid is if you meet any of the criteria they ask you to report on the “Professional Judgment Worksheet, 2011-2012 (PDF).” Also, there may be another appeal form that they will put on the FA website sometime in April and May (according to an agent in the FA Office with whom I spoke). I would advise you to call FA regarding the latter form since I do not remember what it was about specifically.</p>
<p>However, I think you should be prepared for the worst, unless your family has any of the issues raised in the Professional Judgment Worksheet. Take a look at it (right column on the web page in my link below):</p>
<p>[Applications</a> and Forms](<a href=“Forms”>Forms)</p>
<p>By the way, you said your parents are not paying for your tuition, are you an emancipated minor or in some fashion, no longer a dependent of your parents? If this does not apply to you, NYU and other schools look at family income, whether or not the parents are willing to pay for the education or not.</p>
<p>So, if you had known this earlier, that your parents would not help out one iota with your NYU tuition, you should not have applied ED to NYU. Did you not realize that NYU is known to be “cheap” with their aid packages in general? NYU does not state that the school will cover full need. And you are in the “unfortunate” situation of having the highest EFC possible, or as the schools interpret it, no financial need for grants or free aid whatsoever. Even people with 0 EFC (with real family financial limitations) are not necessarily getting the full help they need (in the form of grants or scholarships though various types of loans may be provided). So the situation is “impossible” for you, unless, as I stated in my previous post, your parents have had major change in their financial circumstances.</p>