Career journalist here. This is insane on so many levels.
1. You're a resident of Florida, which has the best college deal in the country. Between a very attractive, prepaid college plan AND a lottery-funded Bright Futures scholarship plan that provides much of the cost of an in-state college education to anyone with average grades and up, you could have attended any school in Florida for little to nothing (assuming your parents bought said attractive prepaid plan.)
2. Because of No.1, the University of Florida has become one of the toughest schools in the U.S. to get into. That's because any kid qualified to go to the top schools in America from Florida takes a look at the math and says, "Hmmmm. I can go to Harvard/Stanford/Yale/MIT, etc. for $60,000-plus a year OR I can go to Florida for basically free. MOST reasonable parents, no matter how wealthy, look at that equation and pick Florida. If, as we suspect, you would not have gotten into UF, you could have pursued journalism at Florida State, the University of South Florida or University of Central Florida, all of which have journalism/communications schools.
3. Even if you're foolish enough to pursue a career in journalism, a field that has cratered in the last 15 years, and even if you insist on majoring in journalism (totally unnecessary to enter the field), the University of Florida's journalism program is regarded as equal to if not better than that of NYU.
Basically, sweetheart, you watched too much Sex in the City growing up and wanted to live the NYC lifestyle -- in college -- of Sarah Jessica Idiot, who had a $300K lifestyle as a freelance advice columnist likely making $30,000 tops without benefits.
Good grief.