Exactly. If this person is personally so disgusted at this NYU change, why would you want to apply and attend a school that teaches and practices differently than what you are so opposed to? If someone feels so strongly about that, then just withdraw the application lol.

This is supposed to be about the application cycle itself, not a politics debate. No matter your political affiliation, trust me, we all see the hate comments on the current administration far too often on social media, so I really don't want to see more negativity on a website that has little to no direct connection with politics. That's for Reddit or possibly a general community forum post.

So people are perfectly fine with the racists in the UCSF thread saying inferiority complex bs about minorities "stealing their spot" but all of a sudden talking about human rights is political

I think everything that you have typed seems to be politically charged in some sense, and full of blame toward others. You need to seriously reconsider how to deal with people of opposing viewpoints without pointing fingers. This should have been something you came to terms with before going through the application process. 'Oh but they did it so why cant I' is a poor mentality for a physician.

It has been said before on previous forums but the Dean for Admissions at NYU, Dr. Rivera, is honestly spectacular. I interviewed this week and his informational session with the Dean was the most illuminating one so far. He was very upfront about the reasons to choose NYU and the reasons to potentially not choose it. I also really appreciated his candor about the relative futility of choosing a school based on research (every school already has too much research for just their medical students!). If only NYU accepted more of their interviewees! NYU please increase your class size! (Dean Rivera mentioned that he peruses the forums occasionally).

I am a student here at NYU and heard we are interviewing/accepting less people this year. Evidently our yield rate was significantly higher than expected (#2 in the nation) last year so they don't need as large of a pool.

What yield are you shooting for. How much higher will the Interview -> Acceptance rate be compared to last year?

I heard our yield was like 66% last year. I don't know how that will affect the interview-to-acceptance rate necessarily. I would assume it may not, if they are doing fewer interviews and fewer acceptances because a high proportion of accepted students choose NYU.

High yield causes a low II->A rate. Last year it was 21% bc so many of the accepted applicants decided to matriculate that they couldn't offer more acceptances to the interviewed people. If they send out less interviews, but the same amount of acceptances (or roughly similar assuming the yield doesn't increase much in one single year) than the percentage of people who recieved intervews who get accepted will be higher.

I may be misremembering, but I remember Dean Rivera mentioning that they plan on interviewing in the low 600s (as opposed to ~750 last yr) and accepting around 120-130 (150 including WL). That works out closer to 25% assuming similar WL movement to last year (or, like you said, similar yield). If the yield is much higher, the WL moves slower, and they accept less people in total, it’s looking closer to that original 21%. Regardless, not much of a difference, unfortunately, but I’ll remain hopeful. Feel free to fact check me. Best of luck to all!

Yeah that makes sense moving it from 21 -> 25 which is what their website says they want their conversion to be at. Also keep in mind that admit II->A conversion rates are higher than they are in reality. so NYU's really could have been 18% last cycle. But yeah a ~5% increase in yield is low but every bit counts. I think my overall odds are low but I'm still fighting for everything I can get since its my top choice.