Why so much hate against NYU Engineering?

  1. Tandon’s acceptance rate is 31% - NOT 75% (that was poly’s - not a school of NYU_
  2. Tandon is a school of NYU
  3. We are an Engineering school - 3rd highest RoI in the nation
  4. The quality of students here surpasses many other schools’ students -> fact.

My stats :
HS GPA - 98.5%
SAT 2 - 2400/2400
ECs - lot of them lol
Leadership - I have my own company, so…
Awards - one of the top 10 students in my country, and many more…

If you think Tandon’s students are not of quality or if Tandon is not of quality you are mistaken. I go to Tandon, which is part of NYU. I spend a lot of time at WSQ like any other NYU student does. Why is there so much hate honestly… I feel really bad.

ACCEPTANCE RATE - 31%

Thread Recipe:

1 cup bragging
2 cups unprovoked defensiveness

But being serious, what is the point of this thread? I’m guessing that there are conflicting statistics on Tandon floating around the Internet that leads to this drama. Is there really anything else to it? The important part is that you and your employer love the school, not every random person you see in passing.

there are conflicting statistics which make tandon look like it’s not a school of NYU and as if it has an acceptance rate of 75%. I see a lot of posts where people cite a inexistent “75%” to tell how “bad” it is when in fact it is 31% and has an EE department ranked 32nd in the WORLD.

I don’t want to see people spreading wrong info and that is why I am doing this.

Clarified?
@TheAtlantic

I’ve never seen/heard of any hate over NYU engineering. Is this just your insecurity showing?

Acceptance rate is lower because there are more applications, thanks to the Common App and NYU brand. The ROI is skewed by the higher salaries paid in the NYC area, and the fact that they’re all highly paid STEM grads (no liberal arts baristas).

Fact remains that it is a quality accredited engineering school. No reason to hate. But, the idea that somehow the NYU brand elevates Poly to something even better is misguided.

As a Poly alum, I’ll always call it Poly. The Tandon name means nothing to me. Poly is a fine institution for what it does. Its peers are other fine engineering schools like Stevens Institute of Technology.