<p>Please share your experiences!</p>
<p>I think the general consensus is that it is more selective than other NYU schools. However, I often heard, in terms of admission, it is a bit overrated and not as selective as many people think. With ED you can get a pretty high percentage I guess… </p>
<p>greetings</p>
<p>about 1 in 8 gets into Stern</p>
<p>A friend of mine got rejected last year and he said that on the rejection letter they said that there were 9 applications for every available seat.</p>
<p>our previous dean told us it is just as selective as Williams College. Less selective than HPYMS, more selective than Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth.</p>
<p>I’d say it’s probably comparable to getting into Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Chicago, or Cornell, whereas the rest of NYU has selectivity comparable to UCLA, Michigan, Berkeley, USC. I don’t think it’s quite on par with any Ivies besides Cornell with regard to selectivity.</p>
<p>^Agree with you on Stern but the rest of NYU is probably more comparable to Brandeis, Suny Geneseo, or Boston College. </p>
<p>When assessing selectivity, look not only the admit rate but also the quality of the pool. SAT range based on collegeboard.com:
NYU 1210-1430
Brandeis 1260-1460
SUNY Geneseo 1240 - 1390
Boston College 1250-1430</p>
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If the yield were 100%, the admit rate would have been 1 out of 9 but we know the yield is definitely not 100%. If the yield were 50%, the admit rate would be 2x that (~22%).</p>
<p>The SAT range is not readily usable because you do not have the breakouts by college.</p>
<p>The “quality of the pool”, as you say, differs when there are different pools for a multi-college university’s different colleges. And NYU is (probably) a university with widely discrepant colleges. Stern probably has a higher SAT range than the others. And Tisch might have a lower range, yet may be the most selective of them all, because things like talent may be more important there in admissions than standardized test scores are.</p>
<p>The aggregates may be virtually useless in comparing admissions to a particular one of NYU’s colleges to a school like SUNY Geneseo, which is solely a liberal arts college with but a single admissions pool. Unless someone knows how the conglomerate university-wide aggregates there can be extrapolated to one its particular colleges. Tisch, Stern, Steinhardt, CAS, whatever other special programs, they are all separate.</p>
<p>Furthermore, without real, comprehensive data available by college, there is really no good way to know how selective Stern actually is.</p>
<p>NO WAY Stern is more selective than Dartmouth or Brown. 1) Those two are more selective than Williams and Cornell 2) Based on everything i’ve seen Stern might be about as selective as Rice, WashU, or Cornell.</p>
<p>“Based on everything i’ve seen Stern might be about as selective …”</p>
<p>I appreciate the power of the word “might”, but then I could counter with “might not”.
If “everything you’ve seen” includes actual stats posted for Stern, as opposed to other people’s equally uninformed guesses, please provide link.
Truth is, if they don’t post data you and I have no idea.</p>
<p>I went to one of the top 3 prep schools in the country where we many many students applying to top schools. In my experience based on my classmates the kids who got into the Ivies always got into Stern. Most of the people who chose Stern were usually between it and the places like Emory or UVA. I would probably put it at that selectivity level based on my own anecdotal observations. </p>
<p>Also my high school college counseling dept sends more students to elite schools than any in the country. I had put stern as an option and my counselor said it was a match, whereas Cornell and Northwestern were reasonable reaches. Dartmouth, Columbia, and Brown were reaches (I got into Brown and Columbia, not Dartmouth.) I get the sense that if you are top 10% and have over a 2200SAT you probably will get into Stern, you can’t say that for any Ivy or Northwestern.</p>
<p>agree with admitone, and this is coming from a sternie.</p>
<p>In terms of admissions if you are top 10%, 2200 SAT, have a couple leadership positions and dont screw up your essays, i think you haev a VERY high chance of being admitted because Stern is very numbers oriented. </p>
<p>However for the ivy league, you can have lower numbers but if you are a truly interesting/passionate/insert good adjective here/ individual, then you can get in. Also vice versa, if you have very high numbers but is NOT an interesting etc. individual, then you can get rejected too. </p>
<p>However for Stern, it’s the opposite, if you have low numbers you will be out (one of my classmate got into Cornell with a 3.7 2080 but rejected from Stern, the other 3.8 2100 got into Uchicago Duke, but rejected from Stern). But with high numbers you are pretty much in. </p>
<p>To sum it up, ivies = unpredictable, Stern = predictable.</p>
<p>P.S Dartmouth and Brown is definitely still more selective than Stern. However for Cornell, Duke and Uchicago it may be comparable.</p>
<p>Hey shuffleace, I’ve found your response to be more helpful than any other about Stern’s selectivity! You’ve really put it in perspective for me.
Would you possibly have any views about selectivity but in regards to the BPE program? I’d appreciate any of your thoughts.</p>
<p>Shuffleace,</p>
<p>Totally agree. I think that’s why my guidance counselor thought is was a match for me given my stats. I think at the Ivy level there’s no assurance, but with Stern there is.</p>
<p>I really appreciate everyone’s comments!</p>
<p>Just to keep things rolling: The repeated idea has been ‘Stern is very ‘numbers’ based’, but if your numbers are a little sub-par (GPA more than test scores), how are ‘non-school-related’ extra-curriculars weighted toward your application? (AKA, no sports, no Future Christian Athletes . . . the list goes on).</p>
<p>I will have 400 medical volunteer hours, countless awards/honors with violin/music, and many. . .MANY. . . hours in church (but who’s counting? It’s ministry). Granted, though, I never became involved in Future Business Leaders of America (I have, however, held a job for the extent of my high school career).</p>
<p>I’m not looking to be chanced. But I’d like more feedback (the conversations here have been great!) regarding what type of EXCs the Admissions officers hold more prestigious.</p>
<p>Ok i disagree about stern being all about numbers. I got a 2020 on my SAT and still got in. I put absolutely no effort into the essays also. So I would say stern is not as predictable as you would think.</p>
<p>Then i guarantee you are the bottom 10% percentile of Stern. No joke, unless you are a minority or had very strong hooks.</p>
<p>A fair bit less selective than columbia, and definitely not even close to being as selective as HYPS. More selective than UMichigan, UCLA, Emory, but less selective than Duke and UChicago. Probably comparable to Cornell, since a lot of people I met here seems to have also been accepted into AEM, but realistically Stern is probably still a bit less selective. This year seems particularly strong though, since I met plenty of people who were at the top 5% of their school and had 2250-2350 SATs.</p>
<p>What do you think about ED to NYU Stern or Columbiaaa? I really cant decide which one will accept me.
my stats
CR 590 Math 760 WR 710
SAT 2: MATH 1 : 760
Math 2: 800
top 5 percent of my class
also very good french SAt 2<br>
???</p>