I don’t see the reasoning behind your assumption. The acceptance rates might go down “gradually” if “Poly” still existed. But NYU basically BOUGHT “Poly” (and we received 100mill this on top of a 160 mill rn), and so it became a school of NYU. If the acceptance rate of Tandon was still 75%, NYU’s overall acceptance rate could not have dropped from 35% to 31%. It would have increased at least slightly.