Cooper Union ED Arts

jimbobcharlie
Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:34:33 +0000

@nmmomma Did your daughter apply ED? If so, I think they receive their admissions decisions sometime in February.

Yes, for Cooper in particular they know how many fixed spots they have. Basically, there are three buildings, the Foundation Building, the Engineering Building and the freshman dorm. A few years ago on Parents’ day the acting dean of the engineering school had addressed this issue of class size. The previous dean of engineering had tried to increase the freshman class size but as the acting dean emphasized, the school has limited facilities. Their location in the East Village has little to no available real estate to expand (and what if, any is bought by NYU, lol). If a classroom in the engineering building was built to handle 30 students, it can’t handle 35-40. The labs were built to accommodate a certain size class so there was no place to put additional students.

And yes, that’s where a waitlist comes into play. If they don’t receive the desired number of enrolled students, they’ll go to the waitlist. I have no idea how many are waitlisted at Cooper and if any actually get accepted off of the waitlist.