<p>My stats are excellent compared to most NYU applicants (1530 SAT1, 800/800/800/790 SATII, ranked top 1%, 4 leadership positions etc).</p>
<p>I'm applying regular. Is it possible that they'll reject me in fear of thinking there's no chance I'll go there? (coz they think I can easily get in to better schools).</p>
<p>I actually am considering NYU very seriously, coz I'm international, so I won't get aid, but I live in NYC, so I can go there w/o having to pay for room/board....</p>
<p>Plus NYU Applied Math is among the best in the country...</p>
<p>david, I don't know where you got the idea that your stats are excellent compared to most NYU applicants. :) Many applicants have stats just as 'excellent' as yours, both early and regular decision, and are accepted. I don't think you have to worry about being rejected for 'being too good'.</p>
<p>i had very similiar stats to you and applied ED, just slightly lower sat II's... I highly doubt youd get rejected, your stats dont seem like youd be ivy league in, so I doubt theyd reject you. I know several 1580's 1590's who are applying to NYU. Since your international its also harder for you.</p>
<p>Let's look at this issue realistically. NYU, like any other college, is just a big business. Yepp, when it comes down to it, being an admissions officer is a job. Being a professor is a job. It pays the bills.</p>
<p>Colleges are in it for the money. It's true. Sure, you may have caring professors who strive to promote academic achievement, but let's be real, here. This is the United States of America, and everything is money.</p>
<p>Good students go to big places and big places yield big paychecks and good alumni with big paychecks make for fabulous donators.</p>
<p>As other members have said, it's unlikely that NYU would reject an applicant with your stats because they feared they were just a safety. Just don't slip up and put another school in your essay, e.g., "I know Columbia will be a great place to explore this interest..." ;) (It happens, particularly in today's world of copy & paste writing.)</p>
<p>Selective schools that think matriculation by a well-qualified applicant is unlikely would still probably waitlist him/her (vs. outright rejection). And if you are really concerned about this, try to have some personal contact with NYU - identify your area rep and contact him/her. Be sure to get a visit logged. Good luck!</p>
<p>I would say its more likely that you would be rejected from a "safety" school that you never visited. NYU is a highly selective school, so just because you have very good scores doesn't mean that they will reject you. If they were to reject you, it would be due to another factor, like having an unimpressive list of ECs.</p>
<p>I don't know what other schools you are talking about, but that does not happen at NYU. NYU has more than enough competitive applicants to choose from (an appplicant pool of 35K+), that they really don't need to reject people for being "too good". Some ordinary school that might think you are blatantly applying there as a safety might indeed reject you, but thats not the case with NYU. NYU has more students with 1500+ SAT scores than Columbia does due to its larger size, of course at Columbia they are a larger percentage of the student body, but my point is that NYU has enough competitive applicants to choose from who will eventually enroll they aren't going to reject someone for being "too good". </p>
<p>As far as your friend is concerned I think can think of a bevy of reasons for the waitlist/rejectation at NYU but acceptance to Columbia. Both are selective schools and its entirely possible Columbia saw something great in him/her that NYU didn't--not every admissions officer thinks the same way, your friend could have screwed up his NYU app. or essay, etc...you never know, anything is possible.</p>
<p>If anything, it might be the attitude of "better than though" the OP has that could hurt him/her. Its one thing to describe yourself as wonderful, its quite another to say you are better than so many others. On paper that may be true, purely stat wise, but if you go to school sounding arrogant, it will not be to your advantage.</p>
<p>Even in your original post, OP, you say you could get into "better Schools", why are you putting down NYU? Step back a little and reassess yourself. If you come across arogant in a post, think about how you come across in person.</p>
<p>after reading these posts, op sounds like nyu is their safety, and everyone knows it's far too good to be that. It's not yale, but it is too good to be considered a safety</p>
<p>I don't think your too good to get in...sure you have nice stats, but realistically there are probally, oh I don't no, 500,000 other students out there with virtually the same stats, the same GPA, and the same EC's. Trust me son, Nobel Prize laureates have graduated from NYU so don't get it twisted...your nothing special when placed against the backdrop of them or any of the other 24,000 people who apply to NYU every year.</p>
<p>The question is can you write? If your essay stinks, lacks creativity, and us completely bland and unoriginal your going to have trouble getting in anywhere</p>