Thank you!
I submitted in the last week of December
Absolutely when compared to those schools. My frame of reference is NPSIA, Queens, and Ryerson. And really it's the large deposit by April 1 that threw me off rather than just the program price.
I heard back on the 15th, they offered $8000 in funding and requested a $4000 deposit by April 1st to confirm my spot. Pretty pricey if you ask me, and inaccessible for broke students.