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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NYU gets more than 120,000 apps a year. It's one of the most appealing schools in the world.

But for those shooting for the top schools, NYU occupies a weird space. Stern obviously gets the ambitious finance types - so gets smart students there.

But more broadly, NYU is not generally regarded as a top school. It's financial aid is said to be terrible - which makes it largely out of reach for smart MC and UMC students.

NYU is the poster child for rich kid school. And not everyone wants that environment, especially smart students that have tons of options. [/quote]

Oddly enough, the favored SLACs here had significantly higher reported median family income than NYU in 2017 and there’s no reason to think that has changed.

Yet I rarely hear them called rich kids schools.  Same for the elite Catholic schools like Notre Dame, BC, Georgetown and Villanova.[/quote]

It advertises free tuition for lower income families which is a big reason why it gets so many applications. For a full-pay family, there isn’t anything that another university can’t offer except location.[/quote]

I think it is more the Common App.  NYU didn’t offer free tuition to families making less than $100,000 until the last couple of years.

There has also been a cultural shift in the last 20 years with kids.  A lot of them want to live and study in a big city.  Hence the number of apps at BU, NYU and USC.

Colleges aren’t generic, NYU has its own distinctive qualities and kids can decide if they like them or not.  And location matters, my DS will be taking a social work class with community service that wouldn’t be possible anywhere else except in other big cities with large immigrant populations.  [/quote]

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