<p>did anyone apply for nyu-ad regular decision and get invited to a candidate weekend yet? if so, how long after you applied did you get invited?</p>
<p>bump…</p>
<p>Wondering the same thing. I applied Dec, 31, and still no email of acknowledgement or anything.</p>
<p>I don’t know that there IS a “candidate weekend”. I know that there are a couple of things like Saturday in the Park, Sunday in the Park…they’re Tisch/CAS type things. I think the CAS is for likely/honors students…but I think it happens AFTER Apr 1. I THINK last year a few kids got their invite just before the Apr 1 date…so they sort of assumed they were accepted. Something like March 20-25 ish? That’s all the early notification I’ve read about. Nothing this early. But…what do I know?</p>
<p>^ Candidate Weekends are specific to the inaugural year of the NYU campus Abu Dhabi.</p>
<p>I’m so stOOpid. I knew Abu Dhabi had them, but I didn’t notice the little lower case “ad” reference in the title.</p>
<p>Do you guys think it will be hard to get into NYU Abu Dhabi? Ive heard the admission comittie is going to take only 100 students. Does it mean that getting into AD might be harder than getting into Ivy League this year?</p>
<p>A class of 100 is WAY different from how many they admit. Most people will probably turn down the invitation in the end, because it is a new program that is not as well established as NYU in NYC, etc, and I bet NYU knows this. They’ll probably let in a lot more than they want in the first class, and they have a much smaller pool to choose from with Abu Dhabi. We already know the ED numbers: out of 3100 aplicants, like 260 or something asked to be considered for AD. NYU gets 35,000ish total aplicants, you do the math.</p>
<p>So basically it is going to be about 1000-2000 candidates and 200 or 300 will be accepted. Therefore, percentage of admittance = 10-20%. Almost like Ivy League schools.</p>
<p>Most kids won’t decline the offer of admission, for many reasons: First, the financial support is very generous (almost all accepted ED applicants got 100% aid including airfare, 3 semesters for studies abroad, health insurance …) No reasonable person would decline such an amazing offer. Second, for the quality of the academics; The curriculum designed by NYU for its liberal arts campus is one of the best in the world (check out the core curriculum, majors, and faculty here: [NYU</a> Abu Dhabi Academics](<a href=“Undergraduate - NYU Abu Dhabi”>Undergraduate - NYU Abu Dhabi) )
Finally, The Candidate Weekends that prospective students attend prior to hearing their admission decision play a significant role in convincing the students of the high-caliber quality of the school. Not to mention the attractive aspect of the location (Well not as attractive as NYC, but Abu Dhabi is truly an amazingly charming and modern city as well)
It is indeed really hard to get in. From about 260 students who applied directly to NYU AD, and about 200 who applied to NYU NY and mentionned they would like to be concidered for AD, less than 50 got in; “you do the math”; the admission rate is around 10%, almost as hard as an Ivy. It is definitely very hard to get in, and it’s going to be harder once the 60-acre residential campus opens (near the largest Guggenheim museum in the world, the Louvre AD museum … ) concidering how attractive the school would become, for both faculty and students.
I hope this helped!</p>
<p>Perhaps you are correct. I made my assumption based on the reactions of the people from college confidential who got in. Most that I saw said things like, “I don’t think I will go, but I wanted to keep my options open.” Of course, that is a small pool to judge from, so I could easily be wrong.</p>
<p>However, I do think that many people who will be accepted will take into account how new the school is. NYU is an established university, but NYU AD is new, which makes it seem a little risky, however respectable NYU is. No matter what image NYU wants to put forth, there will be those that question it.</p>
<p>I agree that it seems like an amazing opportunity, but when it comes down to choosing between an established campus in NYC and a brand new one in a foreign country, I doubt many will choose AD over NYC, whatever the financial incentives.</p>
<p>I agree with Adam, I applied here myself and the application process is really hard, I happen to live right beside Sama Tower (the residence for NYUAD students, faculty and RA) and a junction away from their Downtown Campus and believe me Abu Dhabi is really a fantastic place, you can get everything here plus least crime rate and whole lot of sightseeing to do, even though my counselor is skeptical about the idea, I think it should be successful as its going to be one of the first universities to open in UAE which is privately-funded, Ivy equivalent, a really tough admissions process, and of course a world-class curriculum and faculty, they’ve even made a research center here where events take place and grants are also available and judging by different sources that I found, the students accepted ED were given almost full financial aid, what else can one want??</p>
<p>I think a 100 student intake makes it very competitive. Plus the fact that it’s like the first batch. The thing i realised from my previous school was that if you are the first batch in an international institution, then they’ll try and maximise the number of nationalities in that batch. So I won’t be surprised if the first batch of NYUAD has like 100 applicants from like 80 different countries. I guess this matters a lot for a university. <em>shrugs</em></p>
<p>True! The first class will be like 50% Americans, 40% Internationals, 10% Emiraties ( The New York Times: “Already, N.Y.U. has had more than 500 early-decision applicants for next year’s inaugural class, and has admitted students from Australia, Brazil, Britain, China, Ethiopia, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Morocco, Russia and Taiwan. About 100 have already been flown to Abu Dhabi for a visit” ). Also, admitted students will have a very interesting advantage: once they graduate from the school, they’ll be offered special consideration by NYU graduate schools, as a recognition of their talent and the distinctiveness of the NYU AD education. I think the school is very appealing, concidering the amazing opportunities being offered to students there, the quality of education, and the cosmopolitan aspect of the location. From another point of view, being in the first “batch” of a school of this caliber has many advantages, the students would be able to “shape” the school, creating the first clubs, organisations, bands, press…</p>
<p>@ Illy: Those who got in don’t have many options; it’s not an Early Action program, it’s a non-binding early decision program; students are not bound by the admission decision, but should accept/decline it by January 15th, and personally, I don’t think a student admitted to the school with a full ride would decline NYU’s offer and wait till April to hear from another school. It would be extremely risky. I may be wrong though…
I agree with you; it is indeed somewhat risky to attend the AD campus, but the risk is worthwhile I think, for those bright kids who could not have been otherwise able to afford NYU’s sky-high costs and benefit from the world-renown quality of an NYU education (which is going to be guaranteed at the AD campus as well)</p>
<p>hey… i am Mohamed Ashmawy from Egypt and i applied RD and got my invite last friday 
i was invited for the february candidate weekend am really excited :D</p>
<p>^ Awesome! </p>
<p>I finally got my app received email a few days ago, so hope is renewed for a candiate weekend offer.
THEDASHAS: How did they contact you?</p>
<p>Hey leadthechange they contacted me by both mail and email they sent me my invitation package via UPS with the predeparture handbook and the official written invitation, on email they sent me the link and a copy of the invite what about u anying yet ??</p>
<p>Do the NYU Abu Dhabi and the regular NYU have separate admission process?</p>
<p>yes am sure about that yipyip …</p>