Originally posted by edik
Does anyone know whether NYU waitlisted this many people last year as well?
I don't know whether this is relevant, but I'll share it anyway. When I interviewed at Tufts a couple of weeks ago, Dean of Admissions gave us some info on recent changes in the admission process of many schools.
Basically, a couple of years ago, several schools overaccepted their classes by a decent amount. There was a large stink at AAMC because of that -- they threatened to pull schools' accreditations if it happens again. So now schools are much more careful in giving out acceptances.
If before schools would accept something like twice their class size initially and hope that most of the acceptees reject them, now they give out a more conservative amount of acceptances. This would explain large waitlists.
Take it at what it's worth. I don't know whether NYU changed their policies at all due to that situation.
Any thoughts?
