<p>Hey arcadiafire, why didn’t you pick Berkeley over UCLA instead? :p</p>
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<p>Not me, but it has nothing to do with “prestige.” I’m just not a fan of urban campuses, where the social life revolves around the City, and not the student community. And I also like D1 sports. </p>
<p>If YOU have/had good reasons to pick NYU over other colleges, you made a good choice.</p>
<p>MrPrince: well, that question actually makes sense considering the admit rates and stats of the students going to both schools are the same. This is definitely not true between NYU and Columbia.</p>
<p>UCLA has more hot girls. Pretty much sums it up.</p>
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<p>In addition to the proximity factor is the fact NYU’s marketing machine has gone into overdrive since the late 1990’s. </p>
<p>When I heard about how NYU’s undergrad reputation has skyrocketed in the early aughts compared to just a decade before, I was astounded at how it had gained an Ivy facade. Especially considering how NYU Stern/CAS admitted around 1/3 of my graduating urban public high school class…including some from the bottom of the class such as yours truly. </p>
<p>Accepting admission to NYU…especially CAS was considered a sign one had limited options other than resorting to attend less respectable institutions such as Fordham, party schools like BC/BU, or the CUNYs as a non-special program(i.e. Sophie Davis) student. </p>
<p>Even at a recent HS alumni reunion a few weeks back, the main topic I kept hearing from NYU attending classmates was mainly complaining about how they are still paying off their undergrad debt or have only done so for a couple of years…and we’ve been out of college for 10+ years. </p>
<p>There was certainly no apparent NYU pride exhibited by them in contrast to some who attended and graduated from Ivy/Ivy-type undergrads or better yet…Ivy/Ivy-type grad schools. </p>
<p>In fact, the only HS classmates who exhibited NYU pride of any sort over the years were those who turned down Stern/CAS for undergrad, attended a CUNY/SUNY college at in-state/free rates/other school on full/near-full ride scholarships, and then went off to NYU for grad/professional schools…mainly Stern MBA, law school, and PhD programs in GSAS.</p>
<p>As for Binghamton vs NYU…it was actually much more challenging to get into Binghamton than NYU back when my classmates and I were applying for colleges. A reason why NYU was considered more of a “safety school” than Binghamton by most high school classmates.</p>
<p>This article seems an accurate representation of the typical NYU undergrad experience. Unfortunately it probably explains the high suicide rate. I think the president is trying too hard to make the school appear to be first tier and it makes him look bad or even foolish at times. All in all, it is still a good school with a generally strong reputation.
[NYU</a> Local ? Social Life At NYU: Are We Alone Among Many?](<a href=“http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2010/11/16/social-life-at-nyu-are-we-alone-among-many/]NYU”>http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2010/11/16/social-life-at-nyu-are-we-alone-among-many/)</p>
<p>i wouldn’t choose NYU but it’s just my personal preference. I don’t like schools with no campus (why BU also went off the list). But I think it’s a good school. Some good students and some okay students got in last year from my school but they were all full-pay intls so I don’t know… It has a great reputation abroad though and it’s a dream school for many kids.</p>
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<p>If you’re talking overall undergrad reputation, that must be very recent. From chatting with relatives abroad and my own travels, the great reputation NYU had were mainly concentrated in the professional schools and some graduate departments such as Applied Math, History, biology, and more. </p>
<p>Undergrad reputation was more hit-or-miss unless you went to Stern or Tisch…and even then, I kept hearing how some friends’ overseas relatives badgered them on why they didn’t get into Wharton or why didn’t they get more FA/scholarship money to cover NYU’s high tuition. :(</p>
<p>*I’m just not a fan of urban campuses, where the social life revolves around the City, and not the student community. And I also like D1 sports. *</p>
<p>I agree. I often think that kids coming from far-flung areas of the country are choosing NYU because it’s in NYC. Are they choosing a college or night and weekend hangouts???</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>
<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 [according to Collegeboard]…
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<pre><code>* Number of early decision applications received: 2,679
- Number admitted under early decision plan: 1,160
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<p>That’s 43%…not 29%. why the big difference in reporting.</p>
<p>I have no idea why there’s such a big difference. But the numbers I gave were straight off of NYU’s website:</p>
<p>[Just</a> the Facts](<a href=“http://www.nyu.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/is-nyu-right-for-you/faqs.html]Just”>http://www.nyu.edu/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/is-nyu-right-for-you/faqs.html)</p>
<p>From NYU</p>
<p>Costs and Financial Aid (Fall, 2009)</p>
<p>Tuition (full-time undergraduate): $38,765
Room and Board (average): $13,226
Average Financial Aid Package (incoming freshman): $29,560<br>
Annual Amount NYU-funded Financial Aid (freshmen only): $89 million</p>
<p>That $89 million is about $20k per freshman for a school that costs about $55k to attend.</p>
<p>From Collegeboard
Out-of-state tuition and fees: . $40,082<br>
Room and board: … $13,507<br>
Books and supplies: … $950<br>
Estimated personal expenses: $1,000 (Should probably be higher)
Transportation expense: none stated…should be about $1000</p>
<p>From Collegeboard
Financial Aid Statistics</p>
<pre><code>* Full-time freshman enrollment: 4,467
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Number who applied for need-based aid: 3,004
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Number who were judged to have need: 2,390
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Number who were offered aid: 2,342
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Number who had full need met: Not reported
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Average percent of need met: 71%
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Average financial aid package: $26,287
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Average need-based loan: $4,947
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Average need-based scholarship or grant award: $19,120
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Average non-need based aid: $6,683
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Average indebtedness at graduation: $33,487 (this won’t include Parent Plus or Private loans)
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<p>From NYU website…</p>
<p>Admissions Statistics (Fall, 2009)</p>
<p>Number of Applications: 36,944
Percent Offered Admission: 29.4%
Number of Early Decision Applications: 2,979 (difference of 600 from Collegeboard)
Early Decision % of Class: 28.5%
Number of New Freshmen: 4,650
Academic Statistics (Four-year Programs)</p>
<p>Average High School GPA: 3.63
SAT Critical Reading Score Range (middle 50%): 630 - 730
SAT Math Score Range (middle 50%): 650 - 750
ACT Score Range (middle 50%): 29 - 31
Ranked in Top 10% of High School Class: 69.7%</p>
<p>I wonder what the mid 50 range is for Tisch…There were some pretty low-scoring Tisch admits on CC last spring.</p>
<p>So which is actually correct? NYU’s website or collegeboard?</p>
<p>We have found College Board to be outdated on many schools – so much so that stopped using it for that purpose.</p>
<p>So does that mean that USNWR is incorrect as well in reporting the acceptance rate at 38% (the same as CB)?</p>
<p>Hi all- I’ve been reading this thread because I’m ED at NYU. Just wanted to post to clarify something:
“Early Decision % of Class: 28.5%”
-Don’t you think this could also mean the percentage of the enrolled class that was accepted under the Early Decision plan(28.5/100 percent of the class was admitted under Early Decision)? The wording seems to indicate this rather than ‘early decision acceptance rate’.</p>
<p>That would make sense, although it still doesn’t explain why NYU reports admission rate of 29.4% and CB/USNWR 38%. So I’m still wondering where that discrepancy came from?</p>
<p>My general impression is that it’s overpriced and overrated. Then again, I haven’t too much research.</p>
<p>I just can’t figure out how a school of its ranking hasn’t figured out how to manage its endowment so that it can give decent financial aid. Can’t NYU put its experts at Stern to work to figure that out?</p>
<p>I would think that with a few billion dollars they could figure out financial aid. I read somewhere that 57% of the yearly operating budget comes from tuition (which is astronomical). And they haven’t figured it out because Sexton has a thing for expanding - Abu Dhabi, Washington D.C. expansion somewhere in the mix, etc. It looks like want to generate more tuition revenue. Although I agree with a lot of other people and think Sexton should be consolidating, spending more money on FA and trying to improve the school overall.</p>
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<p>NYU’s tiny endowment is due to a number of factors…some of which are artifacts from the last few decades:</p>
<p>Number of students: There’s only so many ways the comparatively tiny endowment could be split up over 140,000 total undergrad and grad students across all NYU divisions.</p>
<p>NYU’s recovery from near bankruptcy during the late 1960’s-early 1970’s which forced the sale of the Bronx Campus…current location of Bronx Community College. </p>
<p>Expense of maintaining the buildings, facilities, and other miscellaneous items for such a large university…especially in NYC. Add to that upgrades/improvements made to facilities to modernize and make it more enticing for applicants, students, and faculty. </p>
<p>Seeming lack of alumni giving relative to the proportion of the graduates…especially considering most of the NYU undergrad student population IME and from high school classmates/friends who attended tended to come from really well-off families and if they went to Stern or certain departments of CAS were able to gain highly paid jobs right out of undergrad. I’m mainly talking about students and families who didn’t have to take out massive loans for their NYU educations/degrees.</p>
<p>Costs to effectively market NYU to applicants, alumni, and potential faculty…and it has certainly been effective!</p>
<p>Considering all of these factors, it will take NYU more time coupled with much concerted effort to build up its endowment to the point it can match its academic peers and hopefully…provide more than the miserly levels of FA/scholarships they’ve been doling out over at least 2 decades from my own experience and those of numerous high school classmates and friends who attended NYU Stern/CAS.</p>