NYU Decision

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[Please!]

So about the last week of January, I received a phone call from a Med. student at NYU and he said " my name is 'X' and I just want to say congratulations on your acceptance to NYU and here is my number if you have any questions about the school" and I say ...." hmmmm....no one told me I was accepted in writing" and he was like "...well it says here that you are..." so I waited around and then I get a waitlist letter.

I called the admissions office and told them..."hey where is my acceptance..." and they were like "...opps sorry about that....that shouldn't have happened" So now I have to tell all the family members that I bragged to that it was a big mistake.

How f***ed up is that?

 

[lyragrl]

Please! that's terrible!! They should give you a high berth on the waitlist just for pain and suffering.

 

[MabdulD]

Please! How could they do that to you?!?!

No, but seriously, that's pretty ****ty. NYU definitely has one of the worst organized and least honest admissions offices. I love being lied to over and over in this process, and not just by NYU...

We're supposed to be saints, but they have license to treat us like ****.

 

[pekq]

Get a lawyer and sue them. If not, complain like crazy to adcom. That kind of crap is something med school shouldn't get away with. If they said they have accepted you, even if it was a mistake, they should eat their words and accept you. There are people that might withdraw from other places just because they believe they have been accepted at a higher ranked school. This type of error can royally mess up an applicant's application process.

 

[prmd4555]

Is there anyone else besides me who interviewed at NYU and hasn't heard back yet? Just curious and a little anxious.

 

[Taleof50]

Originally posted by Please!
So about the last week of January, I received a phone call from a Med. student at NYU and he said " my name is 'X' and I just want to say congratulations on your acceptance to NYU and here is my number if you have any questions about the school" and I say ...." hmmmm....no one told me I was accepted in writing" and he was like "...well it says here that you are..." so I waited around and then I get a waitlist letter.

I called the admissions office and told them..."hey where is my acceptance..." and they were like "...opps sorry about that....that shouldn't have happened" So now I have to tell all the family members that I bragged to that it was a big mistake.

How f***ed up is that?

Dude, I would definitely call up the admissions office and ask to speak to the admissions dean. I can't understand how they can do that to you. Don't talk to the people that answer the phone. I would really demand to talk to someone higher up.

 

[Rendar5]

I think every single person who was wait-lsited should do that (if you all piss off the deans enough, I'll get bumped up on the wait-list)

 

[Please!]

thanks for your responses guys....I think that I will take your advice and drop the Dean an email, it really couldn't hurt me. Luckily, I've been accepted to some other decent schools, but NYU should really be more careful about giving my parents phone number out to people and then leaking false information. This has made me realize how much NYU sucks. NYU is not really my first choice....but it's just the principle of the matter...you know?

 

[fuzzylogic]

wow, that's pretty screwed up. i know that vandy has done something similar. anyway, good luck with the email!!

 

[AverageMan]

Something similar happened at Cornell last year (Undergrad, not Weill). They sent a "Congradulations on your acceptance" E-Mail to people who were already rejected a month earlier. I'd guess that someone at the admissions depart handed a list of people to call to a student, but gave him the wrong list, so I wouldn't be surprised if other people are confused by the same strange call.

 

[Super Rob]

What is UP with NYU?

1st, how does Please! know that it was an actual medical student from NYU making the phonecall? Did the admissions office verify that the call had been made? That is sketch.

Second, why are people having to call in to NYU to get their status told to them. They sent me an email a few weeks ago, and then a piece of mail wanting a check, and then another piece of mail wanting yet another check. Isn't that how these schools opperate?

Is it just me, or was the interview day so poorly organized, that you left wondering what the hell just happened? A secretary barked at me to sit down in the waiting room, the dean stuck his head in and out of the room but never introduced himself, the interview was extremely short, and then a first year led us around a few of the buildings. Also, a third year student stopped by and more-or-less refused to respond to any questions that couldn't be answered with "NYU is awesome! It's a great place!"

The lunch was okay. I talked to a couple of fourth years who told me they decided on NYU because their fathers went there; compelling!

And there is no second look weekend for everyone!

I feel like I don't have enough to go on. I know this school has a tremendous reputation and some famous hospitals attached to it, but I'm getting a funny feeling here. Anyone else?

 

[prmd4555]

I definitely got that feeling on interview day too. I thought I would love NYU but I walked away feeling kind of unimpressed with the school, the dorms, the whole day. My gut feeling was just against it. Compared to other schools it definitely felt disorganized. At lunch, the students said they chose NYU because they were from NY and wanted to go to school in NY. That is a fine reason, but there are lots of good schools in NY, I need a more compelling reason than that.

 

[AverageMan]

Originally posted by prmd4555
That is a fine reason, but there are lots of good schools in NY, I need a more compelling reason than that.

I think that's the point, there are a lot of GOOD schools in Manhattan. Columbia, NYU, Sinai, Cornell, Einstein, all within the USNWR top 30. Most people will be lucky if they get into even one of those. So of NYC is a big draw for you, most people will take what they can get.

 

[Please!]

Originally posted by Super Rob
What is UP with NYU?

1st, how does Please! know that it was an actual medical student from NYU making the phonecall? Did the admissions office verify that the call had been made? That is sketch.

Well the med. student called my parents number and they gave me his number and I called him back. He sounded very genuine. Also I 'Googled' his name, and he is involved in some sort of NYU med. student group. The admissions office wouldn't, in a million years, verify that he called me because that would be admitting that someone somewhere screwed up.

 

[Rendar5]

Originally posted by AverageMan
I think that's the point, there are a lot of GOOD schools in Manhattan. Columbia, NYU, Sinai, Cornell, Einstein, all within the USNWR top 30. Most people will be lucky if they get into even one of those. So of NYC is a big draw for you, most people will take what they can get.

Einstein is in the Bronx. And I think it's something like 35 this year?. SUNY Downstate is also good. Not ranked as high, but still very good. I'm considering going to downstate over Einstein, actually. I might see more in Brooklyn than in the Bronx. Hard decision since money isn't a deciding factor for me.

 

[Gollum]

Originally posted by prmd4555
I definitely got that feeling on interview day too. I thought I would love NYU but I walked away feeling kind of unimpressed with the school, the dorms, the whole day. My gut feeling was just against it. Compared to other schools it definitely felt disorganized. At lunch, the students said they chose NYU because they were from NY and wanted to go to school in NY. That is a fine reason, but there are lots of good schools in NY, I need a more compelling reason than that.

I have to disagree with the disorganized part. I found the interview no different from most others. Most other schools doesn't sit interviewees down to discuss Financial aid for an hour, at least not at the schools i went. They just hand out a little booklet about FA for you to look at--No different at NYU. The tour was pretty standard: dorms, tisch, lunch w/ students, etc.etc. My interview went for more than an hour. Questions were standard and some unique. M1, M2, M3, and M4's were all available for questioning in the waiting room, and not a single one said they were legacy or there because they are legacy. All were just happy to be at NYU. All gave the reasons why they liked it and why they don't. Pretty straight forward. Call me skeptical, but I smell a case of sour grapes with all these comments about how "bad" NYU is.

 

[Super Rob]

Originally posted by Gollum
Call me skeptical, but I smell a case of sour grapes with all these comments about how "bad" NYU is.

I smell this also, and that's the problem with me searching for feedback on the internet. Although, at this point, I'll take even biased feedback.

I guess it's not the most important thing in the world for a school to put on a lengthy financial aid and housing presentation, to hand us all sorts of books and fancy looking folders filled with information we will later discard, to have a tap dancing dean of admissions put on a show for us, or to have us spend more than about a half hour with any particular medical student (their time is extremely valuable).

I get the feeling that NYU prefers things to be simple and to the point, and this isn't a bad thing at all. All of their letters are concise. Their decision letter is to the point (better than some others, where you must read it at least twice to understand whether or not you've been accepted). There was just something about my experience on interview day that I cannot put my finger on - just kind of put me off, and it drives me crazy because I honestly want to be sure that I have no regrets over the school I choose to attend.


Gollum, thank you for posting about your experience at NYU. I really wish I had the same, as it would make this decision a whole lot easier. Are you a current student?

 

[dara678]

Sigh ... yet another waitlist. Anyone know how often and how much the NYU waitlist moves?

 

[pbny]

Did anyone notice NYU Admission staff being very rude? I called to ask them if they received my letter stating that I wanted to remain in the waiting list, but the lady on the phone refused to check my folder. She just said anything they get they put it in my folder. I just wanted to know if the letter was delivered correctly.
She just had to check my folder, not too hard...Right?

 

[MabdulD]

Originally posted by pbny
Did anyone notice NYU Admission staff being very rude? I called to ask them if they received my letter stating that I wanted to remain in the waiting list, but the lady on the phone refused to check my folder. She just said anything they get they put it in my folder. I just wanted to know if the letter was delivered correctly.
She just had to check my folder, not too hard...Right?

I was gonna call, and still probably will, but that's pretty crappy. If that letter gets lost in the mail, they'll have no idea we ever sent it. It would totally suck to lose a spot on the WL because of that. I really hope the adcom is not a reflection of the school, and I doubt that it is.

 

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[Newquagmire]

Originally posted by dara678
Sigh ... yet another waitlist. Anyone know how often and how much the NYU waitlist moves?

actually, i've heard the nyu waitlist moves quite a bit.

 

[jhk43]

Originally posted by pbny
Did anyone notice NYU Admission staff being very rude?

Hello? Welcome to NYC

 

[TheFlash]

Originally posted by jhk43
Hello? Welcome to NYC

No dude, I'm going to have to agree with the previous poster. I've had to deal with three NYC schools during the admissions process, and NYU's staff is by far the rudest. They're always snippy for some reason, like they're underpaid. Columbia and MSSM's staff has been much warmer and more accomodating. I do agree that a lot of it depends on luck of the draw concerning who picks up the phone at that particular school.

 

[movingonup]

Damn, this is strange. I interviewed there on time, they told me Febuary 15th I would hear, got an email from the office of admissions there on the 15th and a letter of acceptance in the mail a few days later. I was out of town and did not get the deposit in on time so I just called them to explain the situation, no problem for them or me... Every time I have called my questions have been answered to the best of the person's knowledge and the financial aid lady was very helpful. My interview went just fine, talked to some nice people in the waiting room, students were great and helpful and I even ran out of questions. Everyone had a great reason for attending - nothing to do with fathers going or not getting into cornell, and eveyone was realy happy with the school.

I have had no trouble with the NYU process, actually it has been the easiest and simplest out of all the schools I have applied to. I was very impressed with the school and the facilities and happy to be going there next year.

I don't know what happened with most of the applications on this thread, but just want to let people considering NYU who are accepted, that this stuff DOESN'T happen to everyone.

 

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[dsp]

any waitlist insights? ie how many people on it, how many usually get off, etc?

 

[darkcity998]

this is what i heard.

there are about 200 people who handed in their deposits for a place in the class. after may 15, they start taking off the waitlist once people withdraw. from some previous post way back, approximately 34% keep their acceptance at NYU. of course, that differs every year. but just in case, it seems like ~68 students keep their acceptances. Class size=160. all in all, it seems like half of the first class comes from the waitlist.

 

[dsp]

so if approxamately 100 people (mas o menos) enter off the waitlist, they probably ahve to offer to more than just those people because some won't weant to come even though they are on the waitlist. i guess the two big variables then are how many people are holding spots on the waitlist, and how many usually are accepted off it.. thanks!

 

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[Gollum]

All this bitching about how NYU is this and NYU is that is sheer bitterness. Get over your rejection/WL sh1t happens, that's the way the game goes. It's always the schools fault that you got rejected- grow up.

 

[BioMedResearch]

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