2009-2010 NYU Application Thread

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I went to college in New York. I have friends in New York and family. From personal experience, $850/month is ridiculously affordable and that's true for any major city. Most cities (San Fran, LA, Chicago etc) average around $1000 or higher. I have a friend at UCSF paying $3300 a month for three people no utilities included. She also has to pay for a monthly bus pass to get to school. I think if you are considering NYU, then you should be happy with such a low rent.
 
scr1813 said:
I went to college in New York. I have friends in New York and family. From personal experience, $850/month is ridiculously affordable and that's true for any major city. Most cities (San Fran, LA, Chicago etc) average around $1000 or higher. I have a friend at UCSF paying $3300 a month for three people no utilities included. She also has to pay for a monthly bus pass to get to school. I think if you are considering NYU, then you should be happy with such a low rent.
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Nah, not a really big deal considering it's NYC. Although a somewhat significant consideration if you're comparing Manhattan schools.

Sinai is something like $550-600/month all 4 years for their suites. Cornell is about $600/month first year, and $1100/month afterwards for studio/one bedroom.

NYU is 850/month in 26th street. And about $1100/month in most other places from what I remember. Over 4 years (assuming 1 year @ 850, 3 years at 1100)...I'd save about $21,000 assuming Sinai's flat rate $600 rent. So yeah, that's actually a lot of dough.
 
$850 was about what I was expecting. Suites don't seem like that big of a deal considering your roommate isn't some weirdo gunner. However, I didn't meet anyone like that when I interviewed. Everyone seemed much cooler than the average medical school bunch.
 
hey, ill be attending nyu dents next yr, if any of you is looking for a roommate pm me!

thanks
 
You can find amazingly nice and cheap apts in New York right now if you're able to get roomates. I live in midtown east (15 min from the med school), and I pay only 750/month. My room is 18x10, and I have 3 roomates, each w/ their own bedroom. So if you want to have a super-medical school community feel, then live in the dorms, but you can definitely get comparable or even cheaper apts if you just look around.
 
Anybody able to get the PIN for signing into the finaid system? Got nothing but error msgs...kind of frustrating.
 
paperclip330 said:
I think it's only supposed to work on Monday April 5th and later....
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Well at this late date it is a moot point, but why did they include the instructions in a letter in early February without telling us we would not be able to get a PIN until April 5?

No big deal - I can understand that we can't see the finaid until Monday, but it seems like there will be a rush of people on Monday trying to get the PIN before they can even check the finaid...seems like this should have been avoided by the NYU IT folks.
 
What exactly are the suites? 2 br with 1 or 2 people in each?
 
Here is the NYU 2010 Match List. I had to do this manually from a printed list, there might be an unintentional error or two. I did not include prelim spots and I'm not sure the number who went unmatched/scrambled.

Anesthesiology
Columbia (x2)
Cornell
Hopkins (x3)
MGH (x2)
Northwestern
NYU
UCSF
UPenn (x2)

Dermatology
Albert Einstein/Montefiore
Jackson Memorial
Mount Sinai
NYU (x3)
University of Rochester

Emergency Medicine
Brigham & Women's
Brown
Long Island Jewish
LSU – New Orleans
St. Luke's Roosevelt
UPenn
Yale

ENT
Iowa
Mount Sinai (x2)
UCLA

Family Medicine
Contra Costa Regional Medical Center
Case

General Surgery
Hospital of St. Raphael New Haven, CT
Mount Sinai
NYU (x2)
UCSF
UPMC

Internal Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess
Caritas Carney Boston, MA
Columbia (x5)
Cornell
Mayo Scottsdale, AZ
Mount Sinai (x2)
North Shore LIJ (x2)
NYU (x8)
OHSU
Rush
Stony Brook
Tufts
University of Chicago
UCSF
UPenn
UVa
U Washington (x3)
Virginia Mason Med Center WA
WashU
Yale

Neurology
Brown (x2)
Columbia
Cornell
Jackson Memorial
Mount Sinai (x2)
NYU (x2)
OHSU
U Washington

Child Neuro
UCSF

Neurological Surgery
Baylor
Ohio State

OB/GYN
Brigham & Women's
Cornell
Danbury Hospital Danbury, CT
Hopkins
NYU (x3)
U Mich
UPenn

Ophthalmology
Brown
Cornell
NYMC
NYU (x2)
UCLA

Orthopedic Surgery
Case
Jackson Memorial
NYU HJD (x2)
Thomas Jefferson
University Rochester
University of Southern California

Pathology
Columbia
NYU (x2)
UPenn

Pediatrics
Albert Einstein/Montefiore (x2)
Boston Childrens (x2)
Brown (x2)
Columbia (x2)
Cornell (x3)
Los Angeles Childrens
North Shore LIJ
NYU
University of Pittsburg Medical Center

Plastic Surgery
NYU

PM&R
Northwestern

Psychiatry
Case
Columbia
Hopkins
Mount Sinai (x2)
UPenn

Research Medicine
Mount Sinai

Radiology
Albert Einstein/Jacobi (x2)
Albert Einstein/Montefiore (x4)
Boston University Medical Center (x2)
Brigham & Women's
Georgetown
NYU (x2)
Thomas Jefferson
UCLA (x2)
UMDNJ
UPenn
Staten Island
Stony Brook
Yale

Urology
NYU
UMDNJ
University of Chicago (x2)
UCSF
 
I'm an MS4 about to graduate from NYU, if anyone has any questions feel free to shoot me a PM; I'll answer your questions as best I can.

As far as budgeting for MSI when I was going through basically everyone who wanted a summer fellowship got one. Options included being a summer anatomy TA (a bunch of Italian students would take anatomy during the summer break here), Emergency Medicine (phlebotomy/EKG's plus mentorship from residents/attendings), surgery fellowship, research opportunities, etc. These opportunities paid $10/hr for 36 hours/week as part of federal work study (everyone qualifies unless you have significant resources in your name).

I don't know if these are still available or not however.
 
Might be a dumb question, but should you apply for housing regardless if you havent made a decision yet on choosing NYU?
 
I never received an email from NYU about financial aid. What did your guys' emails say? What website do we go to and how do we get a PIN?
 
Go Ducks said:
I never received an email from NYU about financial aid. What did your guys' emails say? What website do we go to and how do we get a PIN?
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it was in a snail mail letter in early feb...
 
Still unable to get a PIN.

Anybody get one yet?
 
medballer2010 said:
Might be a dumb question, but should you apply for housing regardless if you havent made a decision yet on choosing NYU?
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I doubt if there is any risk to waiting to send this in, especially if you are undecided, and given the non refundable deposit. There is no "deadline" or urgency attached to this that I can see - my guess is that actual room assignments won't happen until summer - and people may be waiting until revisit to find a potential suitemate...
 
You guys should try using your date of birth as your PIN. So if you were born on September 26, 1987, use 092687 as your PIN. if it doesn't work just call the financial aid office. I like my award.:meanie:
 
archimedesxx said:
You guys should try using your date of birth as your PIN. So if you were born on September 26, 1987, use 092687 as your PIN. if it doesn't work just call the financial aid office. I like my award.:meanie:
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Agreed here - try your birthdate - it worked for me.

Can you reveal the award here, or PM me?

My award is as bad as it gets. All loans, and not even the favorable school loan. My EFC is 0 - not sure what it takes to get something more than stafford and grad plus loans from these schools.
 
can someone post the link to the website? I'm back at school and left the NYU financial aid document at home, with my family on vacation :/
 
Birthdate did not work for me. 🙁 Has anyone called the fin aid office?
 
UF2099 said:
Birthdate did not work for me. 🙁 Has anyone called the fin aid office?
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It didn't work for me either. I called the office and they told me it's the birthdate but since it didn't work they reset it for me. They said it should work in 10 minutes.
 
flip26 said:
Agreed here - try your birthdate - it worked for me.

Can you reveal the award here, or PM me?

My award is as bad as it gets. All loans, and not even the favorable school loan. My EFC is 0 - not sure what it takes to get something more than stafford and grad plus loans from these schools.
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I got a really bad award as well!!!! my EFC is 0 and I have been getting full grants all through undergrad! Who gets their "need-based" awards then??
 
PrayingPremed said:
I got a really bad award as well!!!! my EFC is 0 and I have been getting full grants all through undergrad! Who gets their "need-based" awards then??
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In order to get any need based aid you have your report your parental information. failure to do that means an EFC of 0. The website specifically says that if you do not report parental information, you receive only loans. Resubmit your FAFSA and call the financial aid office
 
It's not about EFC. I called the office and was told that EFC isn't taken into account. It is based solely on how much your parents make, not about how much they are expected to contribute. The website says they use scholarships to attract a diverse class... but scholarships are not merit based, so I'm not sure what is going on.

I have an EFC of 0, too, and got the least favorable package possible.
 
I got a little scholarship, but not a lot. Anybody get a full ride? hehe. What's this B.H. Homan loan?
 
anyone who get in off the waitlist still waiting for their financial aid award to show up?
 
The voice of the automated telephone service guy is HILARIOUS!!!
 
xinger811 said:
I got a little scholarship, but not a lot. Anybody get a full ride? hehe. What's this B.H. Homan loan?
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Yea... i dont know if I like the fact that i'm taking out a loan from a person. ha. rubs me the wrong way. partial scholarship here too (15,000)
 
The school has subsidized loans with interest rates guaranteed at less than 6 percent. That's probably what the B.H. Homan loan is. You are very lucky!

I'm jealous--they shouldn't give both the good loans and the scholarships to the same people. Give the good loans to the people like me who got no scholarships and will be borrowing a ton more 😳
 
doctor2014 said:
Yea... i dont know if I like the fact that i'm taking out a loan from a person. ha. rubs me the wrong way. partial scholarship here too (15,000)
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Aren't you going to Penn though?
 
mdeast said:
Aren't you going to Penn though?
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And to anybody who got the juicy loans and scholarships, if you are heading somewhere else, please turn this $$$ down asap, because I need it...and I need it before May 15 when I have to cut it down to one school.
 
flip26 said:
And to anybody who got the juicy loans and scholarships, if you are heading somewhere else, please turn this $$$ down asap, because I need it...and I need it before May 15 when I have to cut it down to one school.
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I asked the director though that if I will still be considered for scholarship if student withdraw... she said no, this is the final decision 🙁
 
PrayingPremed said:
I asked the director though that if I will still be considered for scholarship if student withdraw... she said no, this is the final decision 🙁
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I asked someone working at the financial aid office the same question and she definately said yes, I could still be considered for a scholarship as people withdraw... ??? Conflicting answers.
 
archimedesxx said:
per year or per semester?
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per semester... So $30000 a year
mdeast said:
Aren't you going to Penn though?
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not exactly sure yet... But this will make any offers at Penn hopefully go up

flip26 said:
And to anybody who got the juicy loans and scholarships, if you are heading somewhere else, please turn this $$$ down asap, because I need it...and I need it before May 15 when I have to cut it down to one school.
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yea... I just have to wait to hear back from all schools before i start withdrawing willy nilly
 
Go Ducks said:
I asked someone working at the financial aid office the same question and she definately said yes, I could still be considered for a scholarship as people withdraw... ??? Conflicting answers.
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I talked first to a woman in the fin aid office and she said I can try and appeal. I sent an email, and then multiple emails back and forth, to the director (Schulz) until she told me "it's a final decision"

But this might be because there was a problem with my FAFSA so technically my application was not complete before the priority deadline (although I submitted it 2 weeks before March 1 😡😡)
 
doctor2014 said:
That IS the questions... you never know.. hopes are high😉
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If it isn't though, I don't think relatively small differences in financial aid should make a difference. What's 30K in the long run if your at the school where you think you'll be most successful.
 
mdeast said:
If it isn't though, I don't think relatively small differences in financial aid should make a difference. What's 30K in the long run if your at the school where you think you'll be most successful.
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30k not bad... but 120K over four years could make a big difference. i really love penn, but i know that NYU is also an amazing school. Makes my decision a little harder is all (which i'm sure is the point of offering scholarships--or maybe to make decisions easier??)😕
 
doctor2014 said:
30k not bad... but 120K over four years could make a big difference. i really love penn, but i know that NYU is also an amazing school. Makes my decision a little harder is all (which i'm sure is the point of offering scholarships--or maybe to make decisions easier??)😕
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I think you'll be great. NYU has historically stingy financial aid compared to most places. I can't imagine Penn would offer you that drastically much less. Living expenses in Philly should be less than NYC as well.

Although, you're always welcome to give up your Penn acceptance to a waitlisted student 🙂
 
Just declined my acceptance to NYU...financial package was meh compared to some other schools.... Hope revisit weekend is great and for all those on the waitlist hope you get some good news in the near future. Best of luck everyone!

:laugh::laugh::laugh:
 
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