Admissions policy – NYU
Posted by Mr.K on 3rd November and posted in IB Qualifications, US Colleges
NYUAD will be visiting Uplands on 17th November in B106 (lunchtime). The university is now allowing a far more flexible, and I believe sensible, approach to admissions. Please read on…
Just weeks ago from here on Washington Square, NYU announced that they would expand the flexibility of their testing policy, allowing both NYU New York and Abu Dhabi applicants to submit alternative standardized tests to qualify for admission.
With the University of Oxford as a model in how a university can be more globally conscious in how it views testing yet still retain rigorous standardized measures of evaluation, NYU will now allow students to submit any one of the following options to meet our testing requirements:
- The SAT Reasoning Test; orThe ACT (with Writing Test); or
- Three SAT Subject Test scores; or
- Three AP exam scores; or
- The International Baccalaureate Diploma; or
- Three IB higher-level exam scores (if you are not an IB Diploma candidate); or
- Students may instead elect to submit results from a nationally accredited exam that is considered locally to signify the completion of secondary education and is administered independently of the student’s school.
SAT Subject Test, AP, or IB scores must be submitted in the form of: one in literature or the humanities; one in math or science; and one test of the student’s choice in any subject. If final examination results are unavailable at the time of application, predicted results may be sent. Their new policy appears in full on their website.
Yes, our new policy is long and admittedly complicated, but the global reach of a place like NYU – a place with more international students than any university in the U.S. and a university that sends more students abroad than any university, we believe a less “Americentric” policy was in order and we want to allow students from around the world to have a fair shot at marshaling forward their best case forward for admission.
Shawn L. Abbott
Assistant Vice President of Admissions
