Marist isn't "upstate." Compared to NYC I guess, but its only Poughkeepsie. Expensive school though.
Yeah, I say only say upstate because of I don't, people always assume it's in New York City.
I know it is, kinda sucks. Although neither of them had even suggested the school to me, my grandpa taught there for 40-something years (stopped a few years back when he got Leukemia, he still knows the president of the school on a personal level), and my Mom also attended there. We were hoping that maybe I could get some help from the school because of them, but nothing really came of it. There's no way my family would receive financial aid, either. Hoping all the scholarships I've been doing pay off, because I'm still in the hole like $12,000, not including books that I'll have to pay for.
I love the school, though. I had checked out 7 or 8 schools before it, and I didn't really feel attracted to any of them. I got to Marist, and it just clicked with me. I'm hoping it'll be worth it.