So you received the letter - it stated the amount you received, and there was no explanation as to what decided that amount?
Is this money you get through the school or an external source?
It's one school award, two federal loans, and federal work study which technically isn't scholarship money.
Well, maybe it's time to a) invent a new designer drug *dodges boot* or b) consider a study exchange in Scandinavia where tuition is as good as free?
Ohoho I am
not emotionally prepared to live outside of the country; I can hardly do it living six hours from home.
Ooh, ooh, A, I vote A!
As far as B goes... is it still that cheap for people who aren't citizens (and thus don't pay taxes)? Gotta say though, if you've got $10k to lose in financial aid you ipso facto have more than I ever got. Mind, I went to a small state college in the mountains where $10k would've gotten me through four years including room and board.
"Total Estimated Cost of Attendance:
$59,988"
I'll still have to be paying ~$41,000 of that.
I hope you could at least have an explanation for that 
Do you have any other kind of aid, in US ? It's so different in France that we could have felt a bit guilty and a lot lucky as students, hearing about the cost of only one year.
If I remember correctly from last year, I /am/ going to get an updated version of the letter in like a month or two, where they'll prooobably give me a little bit more. There are always outside scholarships, but I've never been able to get any of those and they're often only around $1,000 which doesn't help me too much in the long run...
Also, clarification: I'm going to this college specifically because they had the major I wanted and it's a very uncommon major. I would never be going to school in New York City otherwise.
