In conclusion, I would say the main reasons the acceptance rate tends to be a small number is due to the first two reasons I listed, but certainly the fact that they don't only care about grades also makes it less likely that people will get in. read more
But when taking this 18.6% i totally negated all those who got accepted into nyuad but applied to NY campus as well. I believe that the true acceptance rate would be around 8–9%, which if you consider for a university of 7 years is quite phenomenal. Nyuad also has a yield rate of 81%, on par with Harvard and other top tier American universities. read more
Admissions decisions for the college class of 2016 were recently released and what many anticipated turned out to be the case -- acceptance rates dropped even more at many selective schools, including five of the eight Ivy League schools (where more than 240,000 applications were submitted for 23,000 spots). read more