NYU becomes more transparent - adds LSP students to admit rate

College Search & Selection
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<p>Congratulations to the NYU Administration!</p>

<p>the net effect is to increase this year's acceptance rate from 26% to 33% and last year's rate from 29% to 38%.</p>

<p><a href="http://nyunews.com/news/2011/04/06/06admissions/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://nyunews.com/news/2011/04/06/06admissions/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>*NYU's Office of Admissions announced the university admitted 33 percent of applicants to the Class of 2015 for the Washington Square campus. Of the roughly 41,000 students who applied directly to the campus, 13,731 were accepted.</p>

<p>Since last year, NYU has changed the way it reports its admissions figures. Shawn Abbott, assistant vice president of undergraduate admissions, said this is the first year the university included students admitted to the Liberal Studies Program when determining the school's overall admissions rate. </p>

<p>The 29 percent of students NYU accepted last year did not include those students accepted into LSP. Excluding LSP admits, the university accepted 26 percent of applicants this year.</p>

<p>"In an effort to be more transparent about students offered admission to the Liberal Studies Program, we have included LSP students in our statistics — in addition to the university's traditional admit rate to four-year programs," he said.</p>

<p>In October 2010, the university announced that students applying to the class of 2016 could apply directly to LSP. In the past, students were placed in the program instead of the NYU school they originally applied. Abbott said the university felt that it could no longer discount these students from their admissions statistics after this change was made.*</p>

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<p>When is Columbia going to do the same and become more transparent by including 25% of its undergraduates from the School of General Studies that take the same courses with the same teachers and use the same facilities as all undergraduates and yet are currently not included in Columbia admissions stats?</p>

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<p>Kudos to NYU!!!; </p>

<p>now if we could only get all the schools to include Spring admits/alternative schools etc in their data, we would be all set…</p>

<p>I always wondered why NYU didn’t let students apply directly to LSP…</p>

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<p>Yes, kudos to NYU. Almost 30% of its undergraduates were in the LSP. The percentage was just getting much too big and I guess NYU was finally convinced that including the higher acceptance rates in the overall acceptance rate was the “right thing to do”.</p>

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<p>Transparency is always a good thing.</p>

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<p>Why would any of these privates want to honestly report their data? You think they want to see a decline in their rankings like virtually all of the top publics?</p>