Re: NYU
There was also a bump in 2014 when NYU completed the acquisition of Polytechnic University (which was known as Polytechnic Institute of NYU from 2008 to 2013 during the merger process, became NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering in 2014, and is currently known as the NYU Tandon School of Engineering), so that engineering applicants applied to NYU instead of to the still-separate PU/PINYU before 2014.