hey guys...this is for students admitted to NYU who have not been awarded any scholarships so far....I remember there had been some previous discussion on the forum to the effect that further scholarship opportunites would open up, contingent on currently selected candidates declining their offers....apparently something in the letters given to scholarship winners suggested that....

I mailed NYU asking for a clarification about this, and I got a pretty unequivocal negative..i.e. no further scholarships will be offered...while that may be bad news, it useful for me to know, to start exploring other options, and to take an informed decision...thought others similarly situated might want to know...

Relevant Extract from NYU's Reply:
"Unfortunately, what you describe is not NYU School of Law's policy
regarding scholarships.

More applicants are made eligible to receive scholarship funding than
the
actual funding available. In this way we anticipate that those offered
scholarships may decide to enroll elsewhere. Students who respond to
our
offer of scholarship eligibility will receive the scholarship on a
first
come, first served basis. Our experience with this protocol is that
scholarship funding is exhausted by those originally made eligible.
The
Committee on Graduate Admissions regrets that it is unable to extend a
scholarship to you, and does not anticipate making additional
scholarship
offers.

We certainly hope that you will be able to find external scholarship
funding.

Kind regards,
Timothy Stanne
Administrative Coordinator
Office of Graduate Admissions"

Thank you very much indeed Rac. I am also in the same position as you. Since I ve learned that NYU will not be offering scholarships regardless of the fact that some admitted students may reject, I will be looking for other schools offering financial aid. NYU is too much to afford.

This is really helpful. Thank you

hey rac, I also mailed them regarding the schols and got a similar reply. I will be going to NYU though so exploring alternate financial arrangements? what about you? where are you from?

I cannot get over how greedy NYU is, they said they could award up to three Dworkin scholarships. Not one was given this year to my knowledge. I know of at least four people who applied that were extremely well qualified - they were admitted but without the award. I cannot justify spending 60k. I don't think the LLM will make my future career prospects that much more secure anyway. Medical school charges high fees due to the equipment and resources they must utilize, but law school - why such exorbitant fees? Pure greed.