May 10th, 2008

As Ivies dip into wait list, does NYU get better or worse students?

By Alvin Chang

The Ivies — Harvard, Princeton, Penn — are dipping deeper into their wait list, the NYT reports. So what does that mean for NYU?

I see two possibilities:

1) Some Ivy League-caliber students, who would’ve otherwise gone to an Ivy, are at NYU, which is why this wait list phenomenon is happening. So NYU is getting better students on the first try.

2) Students accepted to NYU are on the Ivies’ wait lists, so once they get into Harvard, they’re gone from NYU.

Keep in mind that these other schools are tiny compared to this one. And these Ivies aren’t dipping deeper than a 200 students into the wait list, which means only a few potential NYU kids are going to get plucked up in this second round of admissions. There will definitely be an affect on NYU, but it’s tough to figure out what — I guess we’ll know once we get the SAT scores for this class, if we ever do.

(NYT)

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