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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's an example from DD's Naviance:  I'm picking NYU, because it's popular, but my DD doesn't want to go there.  In the last 3 years, 33 students have applied and 6 have been accepted.  That's an acceptance rate of 18%, which is much lower than the national acceptance rate for NYU.  Looking more closely at the Scattergram, 6 out of 7 students who applied with an SAT over 1400 got accepted.  (I'm not sure how many years of application cycles the Scattergrams cover).  There were many students waitlisted who scored between 1350 and 1400.

My DD is at a school with a high poverty rate.  Less than 50% of students go directly to a 4 year university.  A small percentage go out of state.  I think that in this circumstance, a high SAT counts for a lot, because universities can't trust that an A means a lot (there isn't much competition).  We have a very diverse school, and I want to assure the public that URM's are not getting high acceptance rates simply because they are URM.

It's also possible that NYU doesn't bother to admit many students from DD's school because NYU knows that it offers crappy financial aid.  The yield is not likely to be high once students see the bottom line.  My conclusion is that IF DD wanted to go to NYU, she would have a very good chance with a 1400+ SAT, but nothing is guaranteed.  Thoughts?[/quote]

NYU acceptance rate for 2019 was 16%.  I am nit sure what old data you are looking at .... 2018 was 18%.  So you entire point us dumb.[/quote]

Naviance for my DD's school lists the national acceptance rate for NYU as 35% in a huge font.  It claims the data is from 2018.  Can I sue Naviance for serious inaccuracy?  I believed what it told me.  It sounds like the acceptance rate for NYU has decreased rapidly in the past few years.  If that's the case, the acceptance rate at DD's school has been lower than the national acceptance rate from the same years.

The opposite is true with more unusual schools.  So few people apply to U Toronto from DD's school that the acceptance rate is extremely high.    [/quote]

That's your fault for not researching the schools more carefully.
I can see from your post you didn't research U Toronto carefully either.
U Toronto acceptance rate has always been extremely high for everyone. Kids with only 1300s SATs have a decent chance of getting in. 
It's a very big school with a terrible undergrad reputation but a good research reputation.

I bet you just searched U Toronto rankings, saw it was high in those global research rankings and assumed it was a good undergrad institution, then called it a day.[/quote]

I personally know at least 6 people who went to U Toronto.  They all have Ph.D's.  So, yes, I assumed it is a good university.   Several attended Toronto as undergrads (even though American in origin) and received their Ph.D's elsewhere.  Sorry I have a small sample set, but I've been impressed with Toronto grads.[/quote]

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