<p>I know the general acceptance rate for freshman is about 35% or so but is it different for transfers? Is it more competitive or just about the same?</p>
<p>Also, are there some undergrad schools of NYU that are more difficult to get into than others or certain degree programs at NYU that are more competitive than others?</p>
<p>And lastly, is it easier to get in the fall or spring?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>According to collegeboard, the rate is somewhere around 28-30%. </p>
<p>Some of the schools, such as Stern and CAS, have much lower admit rates. Stern is supposedly around 10%, while the CAS website says that it is around 10-15%.</p>
<p>Stern and CAS do not even accept candidates for spring admission - You HAVE to apply for the fall semester.</p>
<p>Giant, can you provide a link to where on the CAS website it says 10-15. This makes no sense to me. If both Stern and CAS have rates around 10-15, how can NYU as a whole get up to 30%. These are big schools at NYU. How can they get up to an average of 30%.</p>
<p>“Our admit rate for transfer applicants is typically between 10 and 15%.”</p>
<p>[College</a> of Arts & Science](<a href=“How to Apply”>How to Apply)</p>
<p>And at collegeboard</p>
<p>Transfer Students
Transfer admission stats for fall term:
Applied: 5,986
Admitted: 1,981
Enrolled: 1,068</p>
<p>[College</a> Search - New York University - NYU - Admission](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)</p>
<p>^^^
“Stern and CAS do not even accept candidates for spring admission - You HAVE to apply for the fall semester.”</p>
<p>I have no idea where you got that from, but as far as I know, NYU DOES in fact accept transfers for fall/spring and summer. I have quite a few friends who actually just transferred in this semester. So, unless NYU JUST changed its’ policy, that is untrue. </p>
<p>Kayf… If Stern and CAS have admit rates of 10-15%… Then assume that some of the other schools, LSP, Gallatin, Steinhardt etc, get around 30-40%. You could get an average around 30%.</p>
<p>for stern, you can only transfer in the fall, but for the other programs, you can do it in the spring.</p>
<p>NYU2013, to get an average, I repeat average, if one is looking at 10% for stern, 10-15 for CAS, then with 33% overall, it would have to be admit rates well in excess of 33% for the remaining students. Its just not believable. I suspect CAS is playing loosy goosy with language, and the “admit rate” refers to the percent of kids who actually show up. </p>
<p>Stern and CAS are larger schools. Tish is uber selective too. </p>
<p>Of course, none of this matters, it really doesnt matter how many others get in.</p>
<p>But to get an average of 33%, something doesnt jive here. I suspect that CAS and Stern get the majority of the transfer applicants. If they only accepted 10-15%, then the other schools would have to admit virtually all applicants to get to 33%</p>
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<li>Students who are currently completing the first semester of their freshman year at a college or university are not eligible to apply for spring transfer admission to the College of Arts and Science.</li>
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<p>[Important</a> Transfer Dates](<a href=“How to Apply”>How to Apply)</p>
<p>Well, I wasn’t completely right. You can’t apply for spring admissions if you’re a freshman, but as a sophomore, it seems okay.</p>
<p>It depends. They say average, I know in the past the acceptance rate for transfers was lower (about 2 years ago). They could be doing an average of say… the past few years, in which case, the average posted make sense. </p>
<p>If we assume 6,000 people applied
and of those, 33% got in…
I’m sure there’s a way to figure out exactly how much each school would have to accept to have it weigh properly. Typically, transfer acceptance rates for some schools are higher than incoming freshmen acceptance rates. It differs by year. But if NYU, has a whole of 30-something percent, some schools could have as high as 50%. Also, SCPS is factored into that 33% average I believe. So… It’s possible.</p>
<p>Possible, of course. Likely – I dont think so.</p>
<p>Hmmm…thats not as bad as I thought.
If about 6000 people apply and about 2000 get accepted thats like 30%. Then almost 1000 decide not to enroll which im guessing leaves 1000 spots open for those on the waiting list. So thats about 3000 out of 6000 that get in–half.
Not bad.</p>
<p>Also has anyone noticed NYU’s acceptance rate getting higher and higher each year? Since Ive been a junior in HS or so Ive been keeping track of NYU and its risen from like 29% to 38% according to collegeboard within the past 3 or 4 years.</p>
<p>Ive noticed this with some other schools too but not as much as NYU. A bit off topic but when I did some research to why this might be I got a whole bunch of different explanations. Some say its because of the economy not as many people are going to such expensive schools so universities like NYU are losing the privelage to be as picky with their students. Some sites said because there are more high school graduates while another one said there are LESS high school graduates which doesnt make sense. If there there are less people graduating this less people going to college I understand why acceptance rates would be raising but I dont understand why they would raise if there are MORE graduates…
Im not even sure which one is true…more hs graduates or less? Well anyways why do you guys think NYU’s acceptance rate is going up? Just curious</p>
<p>citygirl1080,</p>
<p>I am not sure if the acceptance rate for NYU CAS has been rising. When CAS Dean Santirocco gave family of freshmen the welcome to NYU speech during Parents’ Weekend in October 2010, he indicated that the acceptance rate was getting more selective, saying that the acceptance rate for CAS was 28% for the class of 2014. Now, it appears that the acceptance rate for CAS would have been 26% (not sure if it was 28% but I do not think so) for the Class of 2015 IF NYU had not included the LSP acceptances in the admission rate (which had been the case in previous years). This was reported in a previous thread on this forum.</p>
<p>NYU has been receiving higher numbers of applications in the past two years, along with a number of top tier colleges. The increase in applications has been attributed by some to the use of the Common Application, which makes it much easier for students to apply to multiple colleges (though not cheap).</p>
<p>Not just CAS but NYU in general. Right now their acceptance rate is at 38%! Last year when I was looking at schools it was 33%…</p>
<p>You are right about College Board NYU stats, but even with LSP factored in, the school was reporting 35% admission rate or less (33%, I think) for CAS. The two schools make up the bulk of students. I think around 3,000 each for CAS and LSP. So, it is puzzling where the higher acceptance rate (College Board) is coming from. Stern and Tisch both have lower acceptance rates than CAS, as well as the Abu Dhabi program (not sure how they factor that in, because the selectivity is ultra high on that, reportedly higher than the Ivy Leagues). This is in line with the questions posed above about stats for transfer students.</p>
<p>This is really a numbers game and it is not very transparent how the stats are derived.</p>
<p>I’m not entirely sure that Collegeboard is correct…
For last year, NYU reported an acceptance rate of 29% (not including LSP) last year and 33% for this year (including LSP). So… The numbers that collegeboard has, I believe, are out of date. </p>
<p>Edit: For comparison, if you were to exclude LSP from this year’s admissions, the acceptance rate drop to 26%. So actually, NYU’s acceptance rate it going DOWN, not up.</p>
<p>For reference: <a href=“http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2011/04/04/nyu-admits-33-of-class-of-2015-applicants-starts-counting-lsp/[/url]”>http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2011/04/04/nyu-admits-33-of-class-of-2015-applicants-starts-counting-lsp/</a></p>
<p>Yep, NYU2013, </p>
<p>Those were the numbers I was given. And you wrote what I was thinking that the College Board may not have the up to date numbers, because I do not think the other schools’ admission rates are so high they would raise the admission rate by so many percentage points. Though there are a number of schools involved (from the NYU undergrad Admissions website; notice Abu Dhabi is not included yet):</p>
<p>College of Arts and Science
Global Liberal Studies Program
Liberal Studies Program
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Tisch School of the Arts
Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Silver School of Social Work
Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism, and Sports Management
College of Nursing
NYU-Poly
Paul McGhee Division for Non-Traditional Undergraduate Students</p>
<p>One wishes the College Board would cite the source and year of their stats since so many people go by their numbers.</p>
<p>I’m quite sure that the McGhee division has a much higher acceptance rate than the other schools because they follow a holistic approach to applications and not the normal format of gathering all applicants together and have them directly compete with one another.</p>
<p>I believe that would raise the % a bit.</p>