<p>So i guess its nearly 30% then :|</p>
<p>First of all, you’re highly doubting WIKIPEDIA is incorrect? and here I thought most people are reluctant to cite Wikipedia…
Also, you might notice that they’re talking about the 2006-2007 academic year. The number of applications has risen since then, making the acceptance rate lower. Of course, I’m no expert on Stern admissions, you may be right.</p>
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<p>That’s very weird considering back when my high school classmates and I were applying for colleges in the mid-'90s, Barnard was considered only slightly less prestigious than Columbia whereas NYU, especially CAS was widely considered to be a “rich kid’s safety school” where anyone with a B/B- average and above a 1000/1600 pre-1995 SATs could get in(Stern required a B+ and around a 1260+/1600). Especially considering around 1/3 of my graduating class were admitted to NYU Stern/CAS…including myself. </p>
<p>The mere thought that an NYU student, especially a CAS student looking down on Barnard students would be laughed at as an absurdity among my high school classmates as few in my graduating class…especially those admitted to the Ivies or their equivalents universities/SLACs would feel the NYU student has sufficient standing to do so…especially if he/she is a CAS student. The snobby set among them would consider a Barnard graduate one of their own whereas they’d completely snub NYU graduates unless they’ve gone on to obtain a graduate degree from NYU or one of the Ivies/Ivy-type universities.*</p>
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<p>@winnie: true, these are all old admission data
But taking it like below 20% is hard to believe considering other schools, not just NYU , improve as well. Well 4 years have passed. But the data certainly still lends some credibility</p>
<p>Give or take, it should fall around 20-25%.</p>
<p>Wharton isn’t over 10% and hasn’t been in two or three years I don’t believe. I got in there too and the acceptance rate was 9% for that year and the prior as well. Stern is in the teens, there is no way we are over 25%. Sorry, I generally don’t trust Wikipedia, I simply asked a friend of mine who works as a receptionist in the Office of Undergraduate Advising (lol?) here about the rate and said what she told me. Take it as you like. Perhaps she thought I was talking about transfer rate, which might be understandable because we were talking about how few transfer kids we knew right before that. I do recall thinking 12% was surprisingly selective, particularly contrasted with the Ivies. =/</p>
<p>Yeah, transfer rate should be 12% but ED rate is not as bad as that right?</p>
<p>I think the 12% might be for the MBA program…? I think undergraduate Stern is probably somewhere in the 19-24% range.</p>
<p>It would be a lot easier of they just published admissions data by college, wouldn’t it?
Otherwise everyone’s just basically making up stuff. You can say it’s a 12% admissions rate or a 30% admissions rate, who the heck knows.</p>
<p>Presumably the Business Week article was correct for Stern, that year. But people applying to a particular one NYU college currently would probably appreciate the most accurate possible data to make an assessment of their chances and future classmates.</p>