Cooper Union ED Arts

jimbobcharlie
Wed, 25 Jan 2017 20:19:20 +0000

@nmmomma I hope this helps, it’s a little long, but most of it is condensed from or linked to Cooper’s website:

But first, from google:

“Selectivity is measured by the percentage of students who are admitted. The lower the percentage, the more selective the school is. Essentially, most colleges are selective to some degree. A small group of highly selective schools admits less than a third of applicants.”

Cooper shows on their admissions page that they accept 70-80 art students per year. As far as admit rate, for at least the past three years, it has been reported to be 8%. According to Cooper’s admitted students’ stats, the number of art school applications hasn’t fluctuated as much as say the engineering school and they generally have a greater than 80% yield rate for the art school. The art school had only a 6% increase in applications from 2014 to 2015 (engineering had a 66% increase) and 8% from 2015 to 2016. So they seem to be able to accurately predict their yield rate with that 8% admit rate.

Here are the last 3 years admitted students stats links:

http://cooper.edu/about/news/cooper-union-releases-figures-2014-admitted-students

For 2014 Cooper admitted 69 art students. The above link doesn’t specify the yield (it’s from April right after students were admitted, but before the May 1 commit date) but it is the first year that they charged ½ tuition and they had a large decrease in applications. Also that year they did not accept any art students ED because the timing of the ED application was right in the middle of the discussions to start charging tuition.

http://cooper.edu/about/news/admissions-numbers-announced-2015

For 2015 they posted the stats after the May 1 deadline and only show how many enrolled (67) and still show an 8% admit rate.

https://cooper.edu/admissions/first-year-profile

Finally for 2016 they show both the admit and yield rate: “The School of Art received 900 applications; 74 students were admitted (8%) and 62 of those students accepted our offer (84%).”

I don’t know of any school that gets a 100% yield rate, but if they did, they would have to let all of them enroll.

And while the admit and yield rate is important to the school, as a parent the retention rate is just as important. As per the 2016 stats, ninety-nine percent of the Fall 2015 School of Art first-year students returned for Fall 2016.

Please don’t worry too much about the admission percentage rate, yes it can be scary but your daughter will end up where she is meant to be and hopefully it’s at Cooper!