<p>It would be a lot easier of they just published admissions data by college, wouldn’t it?
Otherwise everyone’s just basically making up stuff. You can say it’s a 12% admissions rate or a 30% admissions rate, who the heck knows.</p>
<p>Presumably the Business Week article was correct for Stern, that year. But people applying to a particular one NYU college currently would probably appreciate the most accurate possible data to make an assessment of their chances and future classmates.</p>