<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>