<p>This year’s potential transfer forum goers seems…less active on this board than last year’s. Posts have been sporadic. Anyways, there may have been the US News ranking post somewhere, if there is, it sure faded quick.</p>
<p>How do you mean how is this the case? If you're talking about their high acceptance rate for being a top school, it's probably because they have a self-selecting applicant pool (or so people say). In other words, the kind of people that apply to UChicago are the kind of kids that would be accepted in the first place... probably because of its reputation.</p>
<p>This isn't the transfer acceptance rate.... this is the frosh admissions rate. I'm not really sure what this is doing on the transfer forums anyways.</p>
<p>Yeah what the poster above said, this is just the acceptance rate for freshman. And the reason this forum isn't as active as before is because it's October. The college admission session hasn't really begun yet, besides early action/decision people (doesn't apply to transfers), and people trying to transfer for spring semester which is a much smaller pool of people. Wait till it gets closer to April and May when everyone's getting anxious about hearing back from schools for Fall 2009 admission, then you'll see this forum in full swing.</p>
<p>Similarly you'll see a small rise in mid November to December when applicants are waiting to hear back for their Spring admissions.</p>
<p>the 50% for Michigan is SOOOO Wrong. utterly erroneous. USNews is completely stupid. That stat for UMich is probably combing and averaging out all three campuses, Ann Arbor, Flint and Dearborn. Both Dearborn and FLint are tier 4 schools, and they accept around 75% of applicants. There is no way that the Ann Arbor campus accepts 50 % of its students, its more like 30~34 percent. Why would it be one of the best public universities if it took 50% of its applicants?</p>
<p>Actually Constable, you're wrong on that one. For Michigan Ann Arbor, they had 27,474 people apply with 13,826 accepted (50.3% acceptance rate) for Fall 2007.</p>
<p>A high acceptance rate doesn't necessarily make it a bad school.</p>
<p>My guess is that a lot of top students apply there as a safety, and as a result you get a really high acceptance rate... but all those kids are still really strong academically. However, that's just my speculation.</p>
<p>I don't see why these rankings are even in this forum. Admission rates for freshmen admissions do not always correlate with transfer admissions. </p>
<p>As stated above, this is this freshman admission rates for the class of 2007, not transfer. But to answer your question, NYU is ranked #33 on the best national university list, with a freshman acceptance rate of 36.7%.</p>
<p>yeah I heard the NYU acceptance rate for class of '08 freshman applicants dropped down to like 25%, but it's usually higher. the reason it got so selective is because class of '08 was massive and more student than ever were applying to nyu.</p>
<p>would that be the case for this year ? I'm applying as a transfer for the fall ' 09 ... which would also put me in the year of '12 assuming i get in (the year a lot of people applied)</p>
<p>I don't know how exactly it will effect transfer chances, but I do know that the HS class of '08 was the largest class to apply to college, so now class of 2012 is massive. I'm guessing it will hinder chances a little bit since there will be more of us transfering.</p>