<p>From NYU News:</p>
<p>NYU announced this afternoon that about 33 percent of applicants to the class of 2015 have been offered admission to the university's Washington Square campus. About 13,700 students were admitted in total.</p>
<p>Of that number, 3,093 students were offered admission into NYU's Liberal Studies Program. An additional 2,966 students, or 7 percent of applicants, were offered a space on NYU's wait list.</p>
<p>In comparison, last year 11,136 students were accepted (NYU's</a> acceptance rate increases | NYU's Daily Student Newspaper), about 29 percent of applicants. But assistant vice president of admissions Shawn Abbot said a change to the way NYU reports admissions numbers may account for the increased admit rate.</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 below in addition to the University's traditional admit rate to four-year programs," he wrote in an email.</p>
<p>Not including LSP's two year program, however, Abbott said that 26 percent of applicants were accepted to one of the university's nine schools, colleges and programs. In the past, NYU has not counted LSP acceptances in its overall admit rate.</p>
<p>He explained that since NYU will begin allowing students to apply directly to LSP (NYU's</a> Liberal Studies Program opening doors for direct application | NYU's Daily Student Newspaper), the university felt that it could no longer be counted as an Associate's degree-granting program and should be counted in the overal admissions rates.</p>
<p>As for NYU Abu Dhabi, the university admitted 193 students, or roughly 3.3 percent. Last year, only 2.1 percent of students were accepted (NYU</a> Abu Dhabi reveals admission figures | NYU's Daily Student Newspaper).</p>
<p>This year, NYU saw a record high 42,242 students (NYU</a> receives record number of applicants for class of 2015 | NYU's Daily Student Newspaper) apply to the university. This was also the first year it added a second Early Decision application cycle available to students. The university in turn saw a 43 percent increase (NYU</a> Early Decision apps increase by 43 percent | NYU's Daily Student Newspaper) in early decision applicants from last year.</p>
<p>Despite the increase in early applicants, the university accepted roughly the same percentage of early decision applications as last year. NYU accepted about 36 percent of early decision applicants to the class of 2015 and about 35 percent to the class of 2014. Regular decision applicants were accepted at a about 29 percent rate.</p>