<p>Just wondering:
Columbia must receive a lot of applications from NYC students. But, unfortunately they can't take a lot of NYC students. This makes it even more competitive for a NYC student to get in, because Columbia wants diversity and wants students from many different places. So, does anyone know approximately how many NYC students get accepted into Columbia. Also, how many students from each of the five boroughs get accepted. Thanks</p>
<p>The specific numbers from NYC are never published. The best you will be able to do is look at the geographic breakdown by region and state here</p>
<p>[Admission</a> Statistics | Columbia University Office of Undergraduate Admissions](<a href=“http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/applications/stats.php]Admission”>http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/applications/stats.php)</p>
<p>Other “college guides” will list the percentage of applicants from each geographic region with the greatest percentage still being from the northeast but much more specific than than you probably will not find published.</p>
<p>Why don’t you just find out what type of people from your school generally get in?</p>
<p>LMAO My school?? My school has rarely sent grads to top schools. So far only three people have gotten into top schools. Those schools were University of Chicago, NYU, and University of Pennsylvania. This year was when my classmate got into UPENN, making history as the first student from my school to get accepted to IVY. So since my school’s creation in 2002, no one has really got into top tier schools.</p>
<p>“This year was when my classmate got into UPENN, making history as the first student from my school to get accepted to IVY. So since my school’s creation in 2002, no one has really got into top tier schools.”</p>
<p>I’m glad to see that you have seen through USNews’s blatant Penn ■■■■■■■■ and realized that Penn isn’t a top tier school ;).</p>
<p>Confucian- not sure what you’re getting at by saying Penn isn’t a top tier school. I go to Columbia but UPenn is and has been the #1 school for Goldman Sachs recruitment since anyone can remember. Since Goldman is probably the best name you can have on a resume (it’s the perennial top feeder to hedge funds and private equity), I would agree with USNews that Penn easily deserves its top 5 status. Plus the condition of Penn buildings is better than CU’s- e.g. Havermeyer & basement of Math.</p>
<p>^wow you really don’t get humor do you?</p>
<p>1) As concol pointed out, it’s called humor.</p>
<p>2) This is taking the thread off-topic but I’ve got to respond. </p>
<p>First, finance is not the end-all and be-all of what makes a school good. Not to mention that UPenn’s dominance in finance is thanks to having an ugrad business program in Wharton. No one doubts that Wharton is an awesome school, or that the rest of Penn is too, but Wharton is not necessarily representative of the entire school.</p>
<p>Second, I don’t think you can say a school “deserves” its USNews ranking thanks to performance in one sector. Not to mention that a cursory glance at historical USNews rankings reveals a strange anomaly with regard to UPenn and its ranking:</p>
<p>In a one year span, from 1997 to 1998, Penn jumped from 13th to 7th overall, and from 7th among the ivies to 4th among the ivies, and never looked back. From 1988-1997 UPenn ranked either 7th or 8th among the ivies every single year except one year in between (6th), and ranked no higher than 11th overall. By contrast, From 1998-2007 Penn has ranked 4th among the ivies every single year and no lower than 7th overall. </p>
<p>I could be wrong, but the skeptic in me says that UPenn owes its “rise in the rankings” more to either a change in its method of reporting of numbers or USNews’ methodology than any improvements in its own right.</p>
<p>I only get humor when it’s funny.</p>
<p>how many kids from stuyvesant got in?</p>
<p>i thought it was pretty funny.</p>
<p>anyhow, when i was at CU i knew a lot of kids from NYC area.</p>
<p>kind of breaks up into three crowds. the big time privates, the big three publics, and then a lot of kids who went to good schools you might not have heard of and they were the only kid in their high school to get in. overall it might have been 100 kids from nyc proper, which reads like 8% in a class of 1300 or so. by far the largest single metro area by a lot, and when you add in long island, westchester and new jersey, it becomes about 1/3 of the student body (as it is 1/3 of the body at most of the other ivies, just how powerful all those schools are).</p>
<p>as for stuy, i knew at least 10 kids in my year form stuy, if that gives you any barometer.</p>
<p>Columni–not sure about Stuyvesant. Here’s Bronx Science, Hunter, and Brooklyn Tech.</p>
<p>Bronx Science (Class of 2009)
107 Applied
10 Admitted</p>
<p>HCHS (Class of 2009)
28 Applied
14 Admitted</p>
<p>From their respective Naviance profiles.</p>
<p>Brooklyn Tech (Class of 2009)
135 Applied
8 Admitted</p>
<p>From its website.</p>
<p>holy crap 107 and 135 from bronx sci and brooklyn tech?!?! these are last years numbers for ED +RD? how’d you get these numbers lol
what is this naviance thing peopel talk about lol</p>
<p>I think I read on Collegeboard that NY (1) and California (2) are the most represented states in Undergraduate Admissions.</p>
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<p>What are the so-called “big three publics”? Stop trying to make arbitrary groupings.</p>
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<p>No, the schools aren’t “all powerful.” Many of the best kids happen to live in the NY metro area.</p>
<p>1) if anything i am buying into ‘arbitrary groupings’ err social categories promoted by students in these schools and powerful alumni that call them the big three.
2) stuy, bronx and brooklyn tech. 3 of the 7 selective enrollment schools. i am sorry you didn’t know the term.
3) ny metro area has the highest concentration of name your award winners. whatever you want to say, there are great schools - public and private - in the area.</p>
<p>if you feel like crapping for the sake of it, you could’ve just said so.</p>
<p>Hunter>Stuy>BronxSci>Brooklyn Tech</p>
<p>eh, hunter is really a private school - even asks the kids at hunter. 
it is operated by the CUNY system and not NYC DOE, yeah it is publicly funded and no tuition, but it is not really an NYC public high school. plus no one puts it in the same convo as the ‘big three.’</p>
<p>it is UES and gets that crowd. it has its own entrance exam and not the unified selective enrollment test.</p>
<p>i had a thought of mentioning it cause i knew someone would mention that, but hunter has more in common with Dalton than Stuyvesant.</p>
<p>admissionsgeek, if by “highest concentration” of major award winners, you mean absolute numbers, I would agree with you. After all the NYC metropolitan area is the largest in the country. If you mean highest concentration per capita, I’m not so sure, except perhaps for the influence of helicopter parents, family and friends. Folks in metro areas in California or Texas (or maybe even Utah or Alabama) perhaps win as many awards per capita as NYC folks; regardless, they are certainly as capable of doing so (with appropriate helicoptering).</p>
<p>I go to one of the elite nyc private prep schools and we send a ton of kids to Columbia every year. Usually between 10 and 15. I think it’s almost always the single most matriculated at school in any one year except for anomalies (last year we sent 19 to Penn for some reason). This year already 8 out of 13 got accepted early. Last year I think we were 12 for 45. I can only imagine it’s similar at all of the other nyc prep schools (I mean the Ivy prep league - Dalton, Trinity, Collegiate etc)</p>