<p>Ａｃｃｏｒｄｉｎｇ ｔｏ ＵＳnews, NYU had 38% acceptance rate. While on NYUｓｉｔｅ＇ｓ ｑｕｉｃｋ ｆａｃｔｓ， ＮＹＵ ｈａｄ ２９．５％ ａｃｃｅｐｔａｎｃｅ ｒａｔｅ． Ｈｏｗ ｉｓ ｔｈｅｒｅ ｓｕｃｈ ａ ｈｕｇｅ ｄｉｆｆｅｒｅｎｃｅ？</p>
<p>maybe the rate listed on the nyu site is an yield rate or maybe it has dropped down this year and nyu’s showing these fresh numbers?</p>
<p>I bet the US News rate includes people who get accepted into LSP, and NYU’s doesn’t.</p>
<p>No, even with LSP it’s only like 32%. It was 24% excluding LSP in 2008. I don’t know but USNWR definitely has their facts wrong. Did they add in NYU Poly acceptances or something?</p>
<p>I think the 2011 list is based off of date from the 2009-2010 school year, or class of 2013. The quick facts is based off of data from the class of 2014.</p>
<p>US News is a media puppet. I mean the rankings don’t change very often either, except for few select schools. Like the Ivy leagues get changed around often, but they always stay on top. The methodology itself is very subjective too. ( This includes how US News calculates acceptance rates too…) </p>
<p>Quite honestly, I remember asking my boss at a Citibank internship I did a while ago about undergraduate rankings, and he said that although the rankings of the school do matter, it’s always the individual over the institution. So honestly I don’t think you guys should care about US News “rankings” or the “acceptance rate” because those two things are rarely objective.</p>
<p>just off the topic, im just curious why NYU is not recognized as good as berkeley, virginia, or CMU. NYU has excellent programs, departments, brilliant students, and of course great location. i have no clue why many ppl’s perspective on NYU is kinda unfriendly.</p>
<p>^Most criticism of NYU is based on our poor FA, leading to the somewhat flawed public opinion of it being a “spoil rich boys/girls’ school”. It is an expensive place to be, but FA excluded, tuition/room&board is really not that different from other top private schools. It is recognized as being on par with Virginia, CMU, BC, Michigan (all great schools) in many respects. Many will disagree, but I think NYU is a peer/superior school to Tufts, Emory, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame types, yet they’re ranked higher, but it doesn’t matter in the long run.</p>
<p>USNWR definitely does have their facts wrong… but I’m guessing they get their stuff from CollegeBoard, which is usually way off the mark. It doesn’t really matter tho…</p>
<p>What I find really interesting is the discrepancy between rankings like USNWR and some of the international rankings, like World University Rankings. While USNWR ranks NYU at 33, many of the international rankings put NYU in the top 20 schools of the US.</p>