<p>Shouldn’t they have a huge endowment considering not only the amount of students, but the amount of current and former celebrities who’ve attended?</p>
<p>Endowment money does not all go to financial aid (it is restricted, such as to graduate programs, international programs, etc). The financial aid is really bad but if NYU really wants you, they will admit you and will offer you as much as you need. </p>
<p>I don’t know what is more off in the OP’s question: 1) the sense of entitlement or 2) the naivete about how fin aid policies are derived by private colleges/universities.</p>