<p>oh joy, i just read that 37,180 people applied to nyu this year. </p>
<p>NYU</a> > The Office of Public Affairs > NYU Receives Record Number of Freshman Applications</p>
<p>and i'm applying next year, who knows what it will be by then...</p>
<p>is anyone else a little shocked, though? i'd have thought that because of the economy there would be less applicants...nyu ain't cheap.</p>
<p>yea, i was stunned too when i read it. imagine what the number would have been if the economy was booming :x</p>
<p>The most desirable schools all have applicant numbers going up each year. There are more kids applying to college each year, and each kid applies to more and more colleges. Although it is perhaps sad to see the the cream of the students applying get multiple admits to top schools, while a large population gets denied at more and more schools.</p>
<p>Kids tend to over apply and over reach feeling it's only the application fee and maybe I'll get in. Wait until April you'll see it on the boards.</p>
<p>I have heard that most colleges and universities have had records broken in terms of applicants for the last few years , and will also continue to rise for the next few years as well...there were some baby boom years back in the mid to late eighties to the early nineties.</p>
<p>wow that is disheartening. i hope i'm one of the people they accept =D</p>
<p>I'm shocked since NYU is extremely expensive and getting loans is kind of hard at the moment.</p>
<p>Wow! I think that is even more than Stanford!</p>
<p>more than harvard!</p>
<p>I believe NYU regularly receives more applications than any other 4-year college in the US, but don't quote me on that.</p>
<p>Can't be true because UCLA has a higher selectivity rate and they have around the same size freshman class, so therefore must receive more applicants.</p>
<p>it aint that bad, they accept a HUGE amout, something like 10,000-20,000</p>
<p>radio rabbit:</p>
<p>I just found an article from the Washington Square News from 2005 that says that NYU received the most applications of any private school. My bad.</p>
<p>Okay, did I figure this right?
Freshman class will be 4400, of which 30% are ED. So that's 1320 ED students. Assume yield is about 100%. If there are 2987 ED applicants, and 1320 got in, then ED acceptance rate is 44%. But the overall acceptance rate is around 25% (last yr), so the RD rate would be lower than 25%. Makes ED route look pretty good.</p>
<p>the figures aren't looking too good for us RD applicants :</p>
<p>Danielle:</p>
<p>You are shocked at the numbers since the school is expensive and financial aid is spread throughout a large in-coming class. Yet you applied anyway. Right?</p>
<p>why would we assume 100% yield, NYU never has a 100% yield.</p>
<p>About 100% yield is for ED. Supposed to be 100% since legally obligated to attend if you apply and are accepted ED, but there's sure to be a bit of fall off.</p>
<p>Actually, only 90% of students accepted ED end up going. THis is for ALL schools, i dont know specifically about NYU. Never in history, has a school brought a case like this to court. </p>
<p>I however was VERY HAPPY to get into my ED and happily sent my deposit!</p>