<p>NYU’s pretty famous for the randomness of its admissions - not in the crapshoot sense, but in the sense that academically, admitted students are all over the board. Just check out an NYU scattergram and compare it with that of a heavily numbers-based school.</p>
<p>So while the applicants who haven’t heard yet may be “borderline” (they do say that they continue making decisions through to the end of March), I don’t think they’re necessarily borderline by the numbers.</p>