NYU Shanghai Admissions

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<p>Does anybody here have a definite idea of just how hard admissions is to NYU Shanghai?</p>

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<li>Is it harder than CAS or just as hard as Abu Dhabi?</li>
<li>Is the financial aid more like NY's or Abu Dhabi's?</li>
<li>Would taking Chinese classes in high school help a lot?</li>
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<p>I tried searching and info seems pretty scarce, but it's probably because it's rather new.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!</p>

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<p>Hello! :slight_smile: As a senior this year (considering applying to NYU SH as well), I’ll try to answer your questions as briefly as I can.

  1. I’m not really sure about CAS, but my friend (Class of '18) told me that when she applied there were more applications for SH than for AD. However, I feel like the acceptance rate is growing so this year more students will be accepted.
  2. I would say it’s in between. Financial aid is amazing, but kind of more… complicated? than the aid for AD. You can get a full ride as you would get in AD, but the whole process of getting that aid is more complex. For example, they will most likely pay 99.8 or 99.9% of the money. Myself, coming from the really poor country do not find this a problem, I can pay 300 or 400 $ a year. However, if that is a problem in your situation you can always ask them for more.
  3. I’m still not into learning Chinese right now, I think I will start if I get in. I think learning Chinese would be a great opportunity but as I’ve said, in my country, we don’t have a course or anything where we would learn it. I think you would be in a great advantage with at least some general knowledge.</p>

<p>I tried to answer your question as good as I possibly could, I’m telling you again, I’m only applying this year so I still do not know everything. I hope I could help you in any way. Xoxo</p>

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<p>Hi! I’m a current freshman (C O '18) at NYU Shanghai.</p>

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<p>Financial Aid for class of 2017 was very generous. Last year it was both Full-Need and Need-Blind like NYU-Abu Dhabi. The only other schools in USA that were both Full-Need and Need-Blind are Princeton and Harvard. For class of 2017, Avg. SAT (excluding Writing) was 1406 (For comparison, NYU-Abu Dhabi was about 1480, Princeton 1505, Cornell 1400-1420 and regular NYU was 1200).</p>