Anonymous
11/28/2025 13:10
Subject: NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:NYU is a very large school with 30,000 undergraduates. It's going to cater to everybody. How many truly urban private colleges that are well regarded are there in the US? It attracts students from all over the world. The biggest issue that some have is that its campus is not like a typical US college.
NYU is a large university that caters to the wealthy, foolish, and feckless. They will let you in then send to China, Berlin, or one of their other outposts to remove your DC from the applicant pool and fudge their numbers even more. Makes the public drool---it is so eliete. The best real campus and college in New York City is Columbia. Not NYU. Like any real university it does not offer an undergraduate degree in business, which is vocational at best. They do not let you in and send you to a first semester in Europe. For all you DP's hoping that DC lands on Wall Street as a quant trader, private equity analyst, or a real shot at IB; NYU undergrad is not the path. Maybe for an MBA, but not undergrad. CMU, Columbia, U of Chicago----physics; even Hamilton, and Colgate are better options.
The value of the NYU MBA is diluted but the countless people who receive watered down part time and other MBAs from NYU. A full time MBA is dramatically different from one of those degrees, both in terms of difficulty of admissions and the nature of the actual experience. Yet they all go claiming to be NYU MBAs. Kind of like the people who lead their LinkedIn pages with reference to Harvard or somewhere similar because they took one Exec class there but could barely differentiate Cambridge from Medford.
Anonymous
11/28/2025 13:06
Subject: NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
Anonymous wrote:NYU is a very large school with 30,000 undergraduates. It's going to cater to everybody. How many truly urban private colleges that are well regarded are there in the US? It attracts students from all over the world. The biggest issue that some have is that its campus is not like a typical US college.
NYU is a large university that caters to the wealthy, foolish, and feckless. They will let you in then send to China, Berlin, or one of their other outposts to remove your DC from the applicant pool and fudge their numbers even more. Makes the public drool---it is so eliete. The best real campus and college in New York City is Columbia. Not NYU. Like any real university it does not offer an undergraduate degree in business, which is vocational at best. They do not let you in and send you to a first semester in Europe. For all you DP's hoping that DC lands on Wall Street as a quant trader, private equity analyst, or a real shot at IB; NYU undergrad is not the path. Maybe for an MBA, but not undergrad. CMU, Columbia, U of Chicago----physics; even Hamilton, and Colgate are better options.
Anonymous
11/28/2025 12:42
Subject: NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
Anonymous wrote:NYU is a very large school with 30,000 undergraduates. It's going to cater to everybody. How many truly urban private colleges that are well regarded are there in the US? It attracts students from all over the world. The biggest issue that some have is that its campus is not like a typical US college.
It’s more just that it has some clear peers like USC and BU. You can argue Penn too. Some schools are just more like each other.
Anonymous
11/28/2025 12:24
Subject: NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
NYU is a very large school with 30,000 undergraduates. It's going to cater to everybody. How many truly urban private colleges that are well regarded are there in the US? It attracts students from all over the world. The biggest issue that some have is that its campus is not like a typical US college.
Anonymous
11/28/2025 11:31
Subject: NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
Anonymous wrote:NYU has listed the following colleges as its peers. When applying, if you think NYU is a target school, some of these are a lot easier and a lot harder to get into. So what do you call a reach or a target if aiming for 3 to 4 safeties, 3 to 4 targets, 3 to 4 reaches?
Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)
Boston University (Boston, MA)
Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
Brown University (Providence, RI)
California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, CA)
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH)
Columbia University in the City of New York (New York, NY)
Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
Duke University (Durham, NC)
Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
George Washington University (Washington, DC)
Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Northeastern University (Boston, MA)
Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
Rice University (Houston, TX)
Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)
Tufts University (Medford, MA)
Tulane University of Louisiana (New Orleans, LA)
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL)
University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)
University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
Washington University in St Louis (Saint Louis, MO)
Yale University (New Haven, CT)
HYPS aside, it's basically the top privates in the U.S.
Makes sense.
Anonymous
11/28/2025 11:22
Subject: NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
Anonymous wrote:The list reflects the size and scope of NYU. It is many things to many people.
Two 4-bedroom homes sitting side by side in a subdivision leaves little to the imagination when valuing real estate. But some custom houses on large but oddly shaped lots are tough to “comp” as there is nothing else quite like it. So the comparable properties are a fuzzy guide, not a benchmark.
It’s much easier to identify a peer when the details are succinct. That’s how we get silly acronyms like SWAT.
NYU is tough to define. The list actually makes sense to me, when broken down by department.
This is why Cal and UCLA are good peers, along with private USC. Diverse, academically rich, urban, although Cal is probably closest (there is only one NYC).
A big difference is that UCs have more STEM kids.
My guess is that a fair number of CA UMC applicants to Cal and UCLA also apply to NYU.
Anonymous
11/28/2025 11:10
Subject: Re:NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Leaving aside the absurdity of the inclusion of Ivies and Stanford, why does NYU list STEM schools like CalTech, MIT, Rice and CMU as peers?
NYU is not a STEM school, less than a quarter of NYU students are STEM.
BU and USC are peer institutions, along with possibly Cal and UCLA (more STEM students but test blind). All are also diverse.
NYU has an up and coming engineering program but agreed that it isn't anywhere near a peer of those schools. But it shouldn't be ignored either.
Stern is fine but not great - Wharton safety (which is not a bad thing). Tisch is top notch.
It’s ok to express your bad opinion on various topics. Perfectly fine infact. I doubt anyone listens here or in real life anyways.
Wow. Don't we have a little childish angst. So sad. You are embarrassing NYU. Which is an excellent school. But every batch has a few bad apples.
Anonymous
11/28/2025 11:07
Subject: NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yale and Syracuse, but not UMich?
Well the Yale is aspirant, and Syracuse may make sense for the type of person in Ny who wants to stay nearby (Syracuse-Cornell-NYU apps aren’t uncommon in the city, but I can’t think of any overlap between Mich and NYU
The overlap is with Musical Theater students who applied to both NYU and Michigan.
NYU Stern and UMich Ross. Arts and Sciences as well.
Anonymous
11/28/2025 10:46
Subject: NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
Autocorrect
Meant to say WASP. But you knew that?
Meant to say WASP. But you knew that?
Anonymous
11/28/2025 10:27
Subject: NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
The list reflects the size and scope of NYU. It is many things to many people.
Two 4-bedroom homes sitting side by side in a subdivision leaves little to the imagination when valuing real estate. But some custom houses on large but oddly shaped lots are tough to “comp” as there is nothing else quite like it. So the comparable properties are a fuzzy guide, not a benchmark.
It’s much easier to identify a peer when the details are succinct. That’s how we get silly acronyms like SWAT.
NYU is tough to define. The list actually makes sense to me, when broken down by department.
Two 4-bedroom homes sitting side by side in a subdivision leaves little to the imagination when valuing real estate. But some custom houses on large but oddly shaped lots are tough to “comp” as there is nothing else quite like it. So the comparable properties are a fuzzy guide, not a benchmark.
It’s much easier to identify a peer when the details are succinct. That’s how we get silly acronyms like SWAT.
NYU is tough to define. The list actually makes sense to me, when broken down by department.
Anonymous
11/28/2025 09:52
Subject: NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
Anonymous wrote:Remove Harvard, MIT, CalTech, Yale, Syracuse, Brandeis, Tulane, Miami as a starter.
NYU-BU-Miami apps aren’t that uncommon. It’s the rich spoiled kid starter park.
Anonymous
11/28/2025 06:21
Subject: NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
Nyu peers imo are USC, BC, UNC, UT, Gatech, Tufts, BU etc
Anonymous
11/28/2025 05:06
Subject: NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
Remove Harvard, MIT, CalTech, Yale, Syracuse, Brandeis, Tulane, Miami as a starter.
Anonymous
11/28/2025 01:54
Subject: NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
Anonymous wrote:Idiots here probably have no idea that NYU has the strongest appied math department in the country.
That’s cause…it doesn’t!
Anonymous
11/28/2025 00:23
Subject: NYU's list of peer institutions, targets and reaches
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Yale and Syracuse, but not UMich?
Well the Yale is aspirant, and Syracuse may make sense for the type of person in Ny who wants to stay nearby (Syracuse-Cornell-NYU apps aren’t uncommon in the city, but I can’t think of any overlap between Mich and NYU
The overlap is with Musical Theater students who applied to both NYU and Michigan.