NYU Getting Cryptic With Admissions Letters

The office of undergraduate admissions at NYU sent out a strange sort of e-mail to prospective students this week suggesting that recipients of the message would probably gain entrance to the university. Vice president of enrollment management Randall Dieke tells NYU News that the e-mail was not so much a notice of admission as it was a heads-up for high school students to start making travel arrangements to visit the expanding NYU empire. Dieke says students should expect more straightforward notifications towards the end of the month. Surely, this sort of correspondence won't curb any nail-biting over the admissions process, congratulations are still in order: you may or may not be accepted to NYU!

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By Mihir Kelkar in News on March 26, 2010 11:38 AM

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Clarice City

NYU is turning into an overpriced degree mill.

Outter Burrougher

I got the email 9 years ago - it wasn't cryptic so much as irritating that I found out I was accepted by getting an invite to an accepted students day. It made it much less excited a few weeks later when I got my actual letter.

yello10

NYU = Fail

harlemblipster

pretty sure i got the same sort of "cryptic letter" when i applied... FOUR years ago! and there's nothing cryptic about it, seeing as if you get the invitation (it was called "saturday at the square") then you're in. duh.

elpollodiablo

I got accepted to the MA lit program this week... with no funding.

Fuck off, Ivory Tower! Go juice some actual rich person for your 35K a year.

Kojak

I'd like to know what this will do to the suicide rate for stressed out applicants.

Stevennnn

The high school kiddies in the midwest and west cannot wait to leave their small town and tell all their friends and family I'm moving to the big city!

MisterTissue

Why the hate on kids coming from out of town? New York has always been a destination...and all competitive universities draw from outside their specific region. I'm so tired of this "Who's New York dick is bigger" shit. I moved here from the Midwest...and only three years ago...so I must be confused that there's no livestock walking around, right? Here's a secret: New York is just a place. There are other places too. Some of them even have merit.

TeddyNYC

If New York is just a "place", then why are you here? It may be a "destination" for you, but for a lot of people living here & elsewhere, it's more than that, it's the city we were born/raised in. If you're still here in 10 years, good for you. I know quite a few people (including friends) who came here & only wanted to be here for a "few years". Some of them have been here 15 years plus.

If not, have a nice life in whichever "place" you decide to live.

billybob

Congratulations, you have gained admission. Please be prepared to pay $1100 per credit (x120) for the next four years.

eastvill

This is nothing new. I received a similar letter before I was officially accepted almost 6 years ago. I also got a letter telling me about a scholarship before I received my official acceptance letter.