What to Expect if You Are Admitted as a New Undergraduate

If you are admitted to our New York campus and have been offered the Global Pathways Scholarship to study away during your first year, that scholarship is contingent on studying away and is not renewable in future terms. If you choose not to study away, the Global Pathways Scholarship will be canceled.

1. Log in to NYU Albert using your Net ID and NYU password.
2. Make sure that the ‘Applicant’ tab is selected at the top of the portal.
3. On the left side of the page, click ‘Financial Aid’ to view your financial aid package and then select ‘Accept/Decline Aid’ in the top right corner of the Financial Aid page.

If you received a scholarship or grant, we assume that you will want these awards and have accepted them on your behalf.

If you have been offered a scholarship from an outside organization, please provide us with a copy of your scholarship offer letter as soon as possible (be sure to include your University ID on each page).  Outside scholarships do not generally affect your eligibility for NYU scholarship, however, a student’s total financial aid, including outside scholarships, may not exceed their Estimated Cost of Attendance.

Outside scholarship checks should be mailed to:

New York University
Office of the Bursar
StudentLink Center
383 Lafayette Street, 1st Floor
New York, NY 10003

Please be sure your name and University ID (N#) are included with the payment.

U.S. Federal Financial Aid (New York and Shanghai)

If you have been offered U.S. federal financial aid based on the submission of a FAFSA, you may accept or decline any Federal Direct Subsidized Loan, Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loan, or Federal Work Study (New York campus only).

If you have been offered a Federal Direct PLUS Loan, you will be able to accept or decline it in late May for the 2023-2024 academic year. We will email a reminder once you are able to accept or decline PLUS Loans. 

NOTE:  The Federal Direct PLUS Loan is contingent on parent credit approval.  Parent borrowers who may be concerned about eligibility may do a preliminary credit check to determine whether they could be approved by submitting a PLUS application for the previous year (2022-2023).  Parents who pursue this early credit eligibility check will then need to initiate an official credit check in May for the 2023-2024 school year.  We will send out reminders accordingly via your student NYU email address.

We encourage you to become knowledgeable about the responsibilities associated with any federal loans you pursue, including interest rates and repayment expectations.  If you opt to utilize this type of funding, please only borrow as much as you need.

We’ve put together a step by step list of requirements to secure any federal loans that you have accepted.  You will need to complete things like a required entrance counseling session and a Master Promissory Note (MPN) if you are a student borrower.  Parent borrowers have some additional requirements for the credit based Federal Direct PLUS Loan.  If your parent is not able to obtain credit approval for a Federal Direct PLUS Loan, there are several options.

We recommend that you complete all the required steps in May to avoid any delays in your loan processing.

If you have decided to accept Federal Work Study, you will need to be hired for a work study position to begin earning those funds at an hourly rate.  Work study jobs are available, but not guaranteed.  

Read more about applying for a work study job.

NYU financial aid packages are awarded based on the assumption that the information that you have provided on the FAFSA is accurate.  If your FAFSA is selected for federal verification, your federal financial aid will be reviewed and may be updated based on any changes to your application data.  We will notify you if you are required to submit documentation for federal verification in June.

You can still expect to receive the New York University portion of your financial aid offer if you’ve been approved to defer enrollment for a year. However, if you are eligible for U.S. federal financial aid, you must fill out a new FAFSA for the upcoming academic year in order to secure any scholarship that was initially offered and to be reviewed for your current federal financial aid eligibility.

If you are approved to defer enrollment for a second or third year, you must reapply for all types of financial aid by February 20 for the upcoming academic year to be reviewed for both scholarship and, if applicable, U.S. federal aid eligibility. Your initial aid offer will no longer be available.

Students in opportunity programs or special scholar groups may be required to file the FAFSA in order to renew their scholarship each year.

If you are admitted to a program that begins with a year of study at one of NYU’s study away locations, you may have been offered an NYU Global Pathways Scholarship as a part of your initial financial aid package.  The Global Pathways Scholarship is specific to your study away term and is contingent on participating in an NYU study away program.  It is not renewable in future terms.