<p>RML, are you from an Asian country? I have found your view to be the view in Asia alone.</p>
<p>NYU is not for spoiled kids and it is not for rich kids. My son is there, and he is neither. It is an amazing school that he chose over many other options because it had what he wanted to study offered the way he wanted to study it – and no where else could match that. It was a carefully researched and considered decision. That’s how people should pick their colleges when they can. Casting insults at a top tier school reflects poorly on one’s insight and accuracy, not to mention being rude.</p>
<p>no one is trying to be rude here, as i see. perceptions are hard/slow to change. the opinions voiced are perceptions - we do live in a world of perception. it will be a while for it to changes, may be it will start with your son.</p>
<p>^The OP asked for people’s views on his school, both the good and bad. No need to be personally offended just because people are honest in what their opinions are, even if it’s not accurate information about the school.</p>
<p>It’s easy to take offense when we’re tied to, or invested in, an institution. But I agree that these are just perceptions, which is what the OP posted for.</p>
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<p>Why do you need us to validate your choice? The school a person chooses is a very personal decision and the right choice for one person isn’t the right choice for another. I can understand picking NYU if you really like the school and really like the idea of living in New York City.</p>
<p>*Everyone in my school who got in last year wasn’t that smart. *</p>
<p>I think it depends on which college they applied to. I, too, was very surprised to see some kids with (VERY) modest scores get accepted last spring.</p>
<p>I wonder if NYU has to really over-admit because it knows that many will decline because of inadequate aid. I know every school has to over-admit, but I wonder if NYU has to over-admit at a higher rate than other top schools that give good aid?</p>
<p>My son’s school, in the NYC suburbs, sends about seven kids to NYU each year; many more are accepted there.</p>
<p>When I was applying to colleges, NYU undergrad accepted virtually anyone who breathed. However it has made amazing leaps in reputation since that time. At this point, in its immediate vicinity, NYU undergrad in general is thought of as a very good school, much “better” than say Fordham, “better” than BU, however not quite Ivy. It gives strong competition to places like Lehigh and Rochester, IMO.</p>
<p>However, its various colleges do not all share the identical reputation. Tisch is considered to be one of the best schools of its kind in the country, and Stern is considered very strong.</p>
<p>Its grad and professional schools also have distinct reputations. Some particular areas of Arts & Sciences are considered outstanding, others are not. Law school is outstanding, Medical and Dental Schools are very good, Stern is good.</p>
<p>My sense is, as you move away from the tri-state area, NYUs reputation gets elevated somewhat, vs. when you are here. Because for people further way, New York City is itself a big deal, and being a good school named “New York” located right there seems like a big deal. On the other hand the city is less impressive to people who already live in the city.</p>
<p>For most NYU students, if people ask “why didn’t you go to one of the ivies instead?” it would be because they couldn’t get in. (With the exception, there will be some cross-admits with the contract colleges or hotel school at Cornell, all but one of these schools cost less for in-state, and they each have specialized curricula; the yields for those schools suggests that they would win most of these cross-admit battles). The more logical questions would be “why didn’t you go to BU, Rochester or Lehigh instead?”- to which the answer is BU et al cost just as much- or “why didn’t you go to Binghamton instead?”- which might be a good question, if you are in-state. </p>
<p>As for what’s a “better” school for you personally, that’s for you to decide. If you do “better” at a “worse” school you will not be harmed for many future destinations, IMO. A doctor we went to this year had a medical degree from Harvard and did his undergrad at NYU. NYU is considered a lot better now than when he attended. NYU professional schools accept a relatively large number of its undergrads, IIRC.</p>
<p>As for “is it overly expensive?”- I personally was not that impressed with the product I observed years ago. It was too big, impersonal, and beaurocratic for my tastes, and I found no campus life. I think a campus-based university is a better experience of undergrad college life. The city is great, but best experienced when you have money.
But the same can be said for BU, and people go there too. If you want its product, including its location and current reputation, you can’t really get it cheaper. Its reputation is well beyond the other NYC schools besides Columbia and Cooper Union (and IMO Barnard, though this is much tighter).</p>
<p>NYU actually has a pretty high yield rate at 39%. For perspective, JHU, NU, Rice, Tufts, Penn State, GW, Lehigh, CMU state all fall at or below 37% down to around 20%</p>
<p>And a 29.4 % admit rate for Fall 2009</p>
<p>Just out of curiosity… Why does USNWR report that NYU acceptance rate is 38%, if NYU reports it as 29.4%?</p>
<p>NYU is a pretty good school. Not like an Ivy, but maybe somewhere below Northwestern and above Boston College. It’s expensive but so are a little no name schools–unfortunately $50,000 plus is standard for a lot of private colleges and universities. A lot of people don’t get scholarships, sadly.</p>
<p>Why are we stroking the OP’s ego? Seriously, the whole point of him posting this thread is he wants people to make him feel elite.</p>
<p>I’ll review his posts one by one to prove this theory.</p>
<p>Post 1: He says people say to him “why didn’t you just go to an ivy instead”. No one says that. No one thinks that NYU is as hard to get into as an ivy.<br>
Post 2: He brags about why he chose NYU because of its top programs, and then asks someone to tell him that he made the right choice.
Post 3: Same thing as post 2, tries to get people to tell him that NYU is a better school than some other schools he names (it’s not)
Post 4: He brags about NYU’s yield rate.
Post 5: He tries to convince people that NYU has a low acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Why are we feeding this guy? Does anyone seriously believe he’s just curious about NYU? He’s clearly looking for an ego stroke.</p>
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Actually, I know plenty of people who ask both my friends and myself why I didn’t go to Columbia instead of NYU. I’m not asking for other people to confirm my choices - I’m asking for their opinions and giving my full ground for why I made my choices.</p>
<p>I mentioned yield rate in response to “I wonder if NYU has to really over-admit because it knows that many will decline because of inadequate aid. I know every school has to over-admit, but I wonder if NYU has to over-admit at a higher rate than other top schools that give good aid?” posted by mom2collegekids.</p>
<p>I’m not going to argue with you - I’ve simply asked a question and presented all available evidence for consequential evaluation and proper deliberation for an informed opinion. I’m sorry you want to make judgement while blithely unaware of all circumstantial evidence, but I for one, do not. If I wanted to feel “elite” I would have accepted my spot at one of the ivies - obviously I did not. Since you obviously have no opinion pertinent to my original post and are only concerned with attempting to slander, stay out of it. I don’t want your unregarded opinion.</p>
<p>Every time I hear of NYU, It reminds me of a song from “Bye Bye Birdie”, where I first heard about it</p>
<p>*An English teacher. An English teacher. If only you’d been an English teacher.
We’d have a little apartment in Queens. You’d get a summer vacation.
And we would know what life means.
A man who’s got his Masters is really someone. How proud I’d be if you had become one.
It could have been such a wonderful life. I could have been Mrs. Peterson.
Mrs. Albert Peterson. Mrs. Phi Beta Kappa Peterson The English teacher’s wife.
It was goodbye Geofrey Chaucer, hello William Morris.
Goodbye N.Y.U., hello Al-Mae-Lou.
'Cause when you wrote Conrad’s first hit: “Ugga Bugga Boo”, then I knew that was it.
You were through with English forever. An English teacher is really someone.
How proud I’d be if you had become one.
It could have been such a wonderful life. I could have been Mrs. Peterson.
Mrs. Albert Peterson. Mrs. Phi Beta Kappa Peterson The English teacher’s wife. *</p>
<p>Fine, I changed my mind about your insecurity. You’re feeling insecure about having chosen NYU over a higher ranked school and want people to tell you you made the right choice. I sincerely doubt that many NYU students get asked why they didn’t pick Columbia. This would be a cruel-hearted question to ask. You’re probably only saying this because you want to promote the idea that people see NYU and Columbia as equals or near equals. They don’t.</p>
<p>Your intent is obvious, since you keep trying to play up NYU in an “actually, I guess it’s…” kind of tone. It’s annoying. NYU’s a good school; you don’t need other people to tell you that.</p>
<p>And my name is not “arcadiafire”.</p>
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<p>Agreed… If cost were the same, I’d choose NYU over UMich and Cornell. I’d even choose NYU over Columbia. UM and Cornell have stronger names than NYU but this is only very apparent on CC. </p>
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<p>Arcade Fire is a good band. I think you’re unnecessarily attacking the OP however, I don’t think he’s asking us to stroke his ego. Though he did get too defensive later on and started posting like he had a thesaurus in front of him… one of the rare instances I’ve seen someone use the word “blithely” not in a work of poetry or fiction. :P</p>
<p>schrizto: Come on man. Saying “people always ask me why I didn’t just pick an ivy” followed by telling us how high the yield rate is and how low the acceptance rate is, followed by trying to get people to say they’d pick NYU over other schools…you seriously don’t think he’s trying to get his ego stroked or play up NYU? What could his intention possibly otherwise be? He’s not trying to find information out about NYU considering he already goes there, haha. This behavior is embarrassing and deserves some ridicule, which I am here to deliver. I’ve delivered sufficient ridicule, so I will now stop the offense.</p>
<p>According to CollegeBoard…admit rate is 38%. </p>
<p>How many apps does it get each year? </p>
<p>It’s admitting 43% of ED applicants.</p>
<p>what % do the ivies admit for ED/EA??? I doubt it’s that high.</p>
<p>ED/EA isn’t anywhere near as high for ivies. Anywhere from what looks like 13-36%.
NYU had 36,944 applicants for 2009.
According to NYU it only had 29.4% acceptance for ED.
Are there most recent stats for NYU?
Is the USNWR acceptance rate based on ED + regular decision?</p>