Average score skew

Colleges and Universities A-Z New York University
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<p>I wonder where I can find the average scores, GPA's, etc. for each school. For example, if the avg. ACT is about a 30 for the entire university, think about this: It's probably brought down by the actors, musicians (which NYU has an unusually large number of), and other performing artists. Their talent lies elsewhere. That means CAS, Stern, and certainly Gallatin must have much higher scores. </p>

<p>One other thing I wonder. Since NYU doesn't have much of a sports program (Princeton Review's "Dodge Ball Target" school", perhaps artists are treated approximately like athletes are elsehwere.</p>

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<p>You won't find any official listing on that. They usually will only report overall averages but you can sometimes get it if you speak directly to someone in admin at a particular college. You're wrong though about les artistes bringing down the average. I'm a freshman in CAS and when I came for a tour before I applied, a buddy came with me who was applying to Tisch so we visited there, too. He was told, and I was there to hear it, that Tisch is almost always second to Stern in SAT scores and h/s gpa's. This was an assistant dean we talked to so I figured he knew what he was talking about! Kinda depressed me about CAS kids but oh well, I got a big scholarship so doesn't bother me. LOL. So yeah, it's kind of a myth about the Tisch kids being dumb, doesn't work like that at NYU.</p>

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<p>they dont release individual break downsusually but average sat score was 1410 for ED this year with 1440 for Stern. Tisch actually doesnt bring down the sat score that much, tisch has other departments outside just acting...film,photography, etc and those are actually harder to get into than the other schools. Ive heard a 5% acceptance rate for film and television. NYU has alot of sports programs, all divison three (except fencing) though due to some scandal.</p>

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<p>The dumb artist thing doesn't exist at NYU, though I'm unsure as to whether Tisch slightly brings down the NYU average or is in line with it (more likely candidates to bring down the NYU overall average are School of ED, GSP, and Social Work). </p>

<p>I would suspect most Tisch students have fairly strong SAT scores and hs GPAs. Tisch SAT/GPA ranges, it would seem to me would be a lot wider than other NYU schools. As was previously noted, a super talented artist can be accepted with stats lower than that of the average student at the school. </p>

<p>As for Tisch somehow having an average SAT score higher than CAS, I would highly doubt that because the simple mathematics wouldn't allow for it (ie if Tisch SAT averages were this high, NYU's overall average would be tremendously higher). NYU rarely publishes SAT scores by school, but there is some old info. out there. </p>

<p>Example, in 2001, the avg. CAS frosh had a 1371, and a 3.8, in 2000, the numbers were 1367/3.75. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.nyu.edu/fas/GAP/GeneralInfo/CASGPAandSAT.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nyu.edu/fas/GAP/GeneralInfo/CASGPAandSAT.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>In the same year (class of 2004), the overall average for all NYU freshman was 1334 SAT and 3.58 GPA. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.nyu.edu/nyutoday/archives/14/04/frosh.nyu%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nyu.edu/nyutoday/archives/14/04/frosh.nyu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I dont have the Stern data for that year, but assuming that Stern had something equal or slightly better than CAS (not a radical assumption to make), there is no way the Tisch SAT/GPA numbers can exceed that of CAS and the overall average of NYU for that year remains what it is...because the vast majority of NYU frosh would have higher scores than what is published by the university. My guess is that Tisch, Gallatin, and School of ED would have fairly similar score averages, and Tisch would certainly be higher than GSP and Social Work.</p>

<p>I would also think that SAT score would be less important when applying to Tisch than other NYU schools (though it would still be a significant factor and most Tisch students have fairly high SAT scores...far above the average college student). </p>

<p>Some Tisch programs have obscenly low acceptance rates that would rival any college in the country. The acceptance rates to these programs are low enough that they could probably fill the entire program with 1500+ SAT scorers if that was Tisch's goal, but it obvioulsy isn't, they'd rather have sheer talent. </p>

<p>NYU also does have an extensive athletic program, and being a recruited athlete will clearly help one in NYU admissions.</p>