Hi All,
I'm having a very difficult time as well dealing with the realities of grad school costs. I applied to Hunter, NYU, and Columbia, and got into all three schools. NYU gave me ~10k and Columbia ~13k but both are still so expensive and I can't fathom how I will pay back those loans on a social workers salary. I love NYUs clinical focus, but I'm likely going to Hunter because it's more affordable and still a great program. It's just so hard turning down an ivy and NYU!
All of the social workers and health care workers I've spoken to have told me to go to hunter. Even someone at the NYU admissions event (a prof) told me if money was an issue to go to hunter!! I will still need to take out loans for tuition and housing but the debt will be more manageable I guess....one thing that's weird is that hunters health insurance through ghi costs ~500$ a month and NYU and Columbia cost a fraction of that. Don't know why health insurance at hunter will cost me close to $5,000 a year! It's never a win-win...wait, why am I going to back to school ? I have to keep reminding myself...
