<p>Her major is media arts (she wants to study journalism and poly sci).</p>
<p>For bringing up Stern perhaps you are nuts. I have never mentioned Stern.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses and discussion..you guys are great, I alwasy learn something here.</p>
<p>Slipper: NYU's SAT average is 1352, Columbia College's is 1409...for a difference of 57 points. However the OP would apply to CAS (a more academic school of NYU than School of Ed, Social Work, and Tisch, which is selective in its own artsy way)....thus there would be a higher avarage scores, the SAT gap from Columbia would be smaller there.</p>
<p>Historic NYU CAS SAT avg:
<a href="http://www.nyu.edu/fas/GAP/GeneralInfo/CASGPAandSAT.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.nyu.edu/fas/GAP/GeneralInfo/CASGPAandSAT.pdf</a></p>
<p>In 2001, the CAS average at NYU is 1371, even if we assume the score has not gone up since '01 (which it clearly has since NYU has clearly gotten more selective)...the SAT difference from Columbia is 38 points...thats if the average has stayed the same (These were the latest numbers; NYU really doesn't publish SAT scores by schools, but it clearly hasn't gone down). I can also tell you there is no SAT gap between Stern and Columbia.</p>
<p>Contrast this to Columbia and Prinecton where P's average is about 60 points higher. The difference is even greater at Harvard and Yale....Harvard's middle 50% SAT range is 1400-1590. The average student at Columbia would barely crack the 25 percentile at Harvard. There is a very real selectivity difference between the upper and lower ivies (no quotes needed around upper or lower). </p>
<p>My point here: For someone with the OP's credentials, the chance of getting into Columbia are much much more realistic than getting into Princeton...hence my original characterization of reach/slight reach/match/safety.</p>
<p>I agree JW. In the appendix of the "College Admissions Game" book, Princeton's median SAT was 1490 (the highest IVY listed). Columbia was low 1400s (big difference).</p>