<p>I'm quite torn between these two schools.....currently....I'm thinking of going pre-med and foll.owing a Japanese track in an East Asian Studies major</p>
<p>I live on Long Island which is like an hour train and subway to NYU which may seem a bit close......however, I still think NYU is still awesome along with Michigan</p>
<p>Feedback would be most appreciated......</p>
<p>NYU has a better student body than Michigan (lower acceptance rate and higher average SAT score). UMich's acceptance rate is like 2/3, add in the waitlist..and I wonder if they reject anyone? Why would you even think of UMich if you're out of state??..doesn't make any sense to me.</p>
<p>nyu is private, michigan public.. nyu has slightly higher caliber students, michigan has great school spirit, nyu has next to none (as in the city is the school spirit..) michigan is probably better at more things that nyu whereas nyu is better than umich only in a small amount of fields... i dont think you can really compare the 2 they are very much opposites , it really depends on what u prefer...</p>
<p>I'm stuck between NYU and Vanderbilt for the same -- East Asian Studies. NYU's Asian Foreign Language department seems rather large, and they even have a Graduate dept for East Asian, which is pretty rare among Universities. I'm actually headed down to sit in on some classes next week. Are you going to the University Day reception on Sunday by any chance?</p>
<p>I don't doubt that UMich has some great grad schools, but NYU undergrad is stronger (smaller classes, better student/facutly ratio and better student body). For an in-stater, UMich is a good low priced option, but for out of staters, UMich seems to me, an overpriced education.</p>
<p>Princeton Review's list of top 10 schools where TAs teach too many courses:</p>
<p>1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2 University of Iowa
3 University of Kansas
4 Ohio State University - Columbus
5 Purdue University-West Lafayette
6 University of California-Riverside
7 University of Tennessee - Knoxville
8 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
9 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
10 Florida State University </p>
<p>Source (you may need to register to see the entire list):
<a href="http://www.princetonreview.com/coll...ID=1&TopicID=11%5B/url%5D">http://www.princetonreview.com/coll...ID=1&TopicID=11</a></p>
<p>UMich hasn't touched their waitlist in 5 years, not to mention that their out of state acceptance rate actually falls closer to NYU's.</p>
<p>I don't know how you can talk about an "out of state" acceptance rate for NYU, when NYU is a private institution. It does get a huge number of applicants from NY, but that's a result of its prominence and the fact that everybody in NY knows about it. There isn't, however, an "out of state" acceptance policy with alternative tuition or any special treatment of students from outside of New York.</p>
<p>"UMich hasn't touched their waitlist in 5 years"</p>
<p>-Of course they haven't, UMich has ROLLING admissions. Why would a school even need waitlist when it has rolling admissions? Most selective schools don't have rolling admissions. UMich also must limit the amount of students they can take from out of state, since it is a state school. </p>
<p>Almost elite school, which doesn't have rolling admissions (most don't), including HYP, has a waitlist.</p>
<p>eep, sorry, I meant in terms of NYU's general addmissions number including those instate. Also, UMich actually does have a waitlist because they send out all of their final decisions by the 10th of April, and then wait until May 1st to get their rejections. I only brought up waitlist because you used the term JW. Furthermore, their acceptance rate, though not sparkling is 54% according to US New and World Reports which is much closer to half than 2/3, and their yield, at 68% is double NYU's which is around 30% if I'm correct.</p>
<p>i think NYU's is at about 50%... which isnt far off 54% esp since they accept a whole lot less people.</p>
<p>a whole lot less percentage-wise, i mean.</p>
<p>translatedpoorly, he meant the UMich "out of state" acceptance rate, as compared to NYU's "acceptance" rate. Think about it</p>
<p>NYU's yield isn't 50% according to anything I've read and Michigan's yield is reportedly around 68%, not 54%... 54% is the actual number of students they accept and somehow or another convince 68% of that 54% go. NYU accepts 33% of the kids that apply, and of those 33%, around 30% of that initial 33% decide to attend.</p>
<p>These are the official NYU figures for '04 - traditional baccalaureate.
Accepted 28.6%. Yield 35.5%.</p>
<p>thanks much guys!</p>
<p>translatedpoorly....i cannot be there on sunday because i'm participating in my school musical.....</p>
<p>Belch said: "I've read and Michigan's yield is reportedly around 68%, not 54%"</p>
<p>That is 100% false. You need to start checking facts before posting. </p>
<p>From UMich's website (these are the latest numbers from 2004):</p>
<p>21,261 Applications </p>
<p>13,272 Admissions </p>
<p>6,000 Enrolled (Unofficial)</p>
<p>This translates into:</p>
<p>Acceptance rate: 62.4%</p>
<p>Yield: 45.2% (unofficial)</p>
<p>Source:
<a href="http://www.admissions.umich.edu/fastfacts.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.umich.edu/fastfacts.html</a></p>
<p>UMich's acceptance rate at 62.4% is nowhere near NYU's (28%). UMich's yield is a little higher than NYU's (usually hovering around 35-40%), but thats only because its very appealing to in-state kids who get low tuition...in fact, you'll find many even not so great state U's with similar yields to UMich's. UMich's yield for out of stater's would be a lot more telling, and would not be anywhere near that for in-staters. </p>
<p>An out of stater is usually not going to take UMich over NYU, and thats a fact, since most cross admits accepted to both schools pick NYU even when in-staters are included for UMich (check the Revealed Preferences study..done by Harvard and Wharton profts).</p>