NYU acceptance rate and admissions statistics
NYU admitted 10,340 of 114,125 first-year applicants in its 2025-26 Common Data Set, an official acceptance rate of 9.1%. Every number below comes from the college’s own Common Data Set, each year linked to its document; a figure the college leaves blank says “Not published”, and the notes at the foot of the page say where a total is the sum of rows the college printed.
What did admitted applicants have? How to get into NYU counts the grades, scores and activities they posted.
NYU acceptance rate by year
| CDS year | Applied | Admitted | Acceptance rate | Enrolled | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 114,125 | 10,340 | 9.1% | 5,662 | 54.8% |
| 2024-25 | 110,807 | 10,232 | 9.2% | 5,666 | 55.4% |
| 2023-24 | 113,578 | 10,693 | 9.4% | 5,818 | 54.4% |
Acceptance rate is admitted divided by applied; yield is enrolled divided by admitted. Both are computed by Aristo Scholars from the two counts printed beside them.
Early decision at NYU
Early decision counts: Not published. NYU’s Common Data Set prints no early decision applicant or admit counts (section C21) for any year shown.
NYU waitlist
Waitlist counts: Not published. NYU’s Common Data Set prints no waitlist numbers (section C2) for any year shown.
NYU SAT and ACT scores
What NYU says matters in admission
In section C7 each college rates its own admission factors as Very Important, Important, Considered or Not Considered. These are the factors NYU rated in the top two tiers.
- 2025-26
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Application essay, Recommendations, Character/personal qualities
- Important: Standardized test scores
- 2024-25
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Application essay, Recommendations, Character/personal qualities
- Important: Standardized test scores
- 2023-24
- Very important: Rigor of secondary school record, Academic GPA, Recommendations, Application essay, Character/personal qualities
- Important: Standardized test scores
NYU testing policy for students applying in 2026-27
Test-optional: 'NYU will continue to remain test-optional through the 2027-2028 application cycle.'
From NYU’s admissions site, read 2026-11-05. Policies change; the college’s page is the authority.
How these numbers were read
NYU lists an early decision plan but prints no C21 counts, and prints no C2 waitlist counts, in any year shown. The 2023-24 C1 total rows print 0, so that year's totals are the sums of the gender rows.
NYU acceptance rate questions
- What is the NYU acceptance rate?
- NYU's Common Data Set for 2025-26 reports 114,125 first-year applicants and 10,340 admitted, an acceptance rate of 9.1%. It was 9.2% in 2024-25 and 9.4% in 2023-24.
- What SAT scores do NYU students have?
- In 2025-26, the middle half of enrolled first-year students who submitted the SAT scored 1480 to 1550, and ACT submitters scored 34 to 35. 27.0% of enrolled students submitted an SAT score.
- Does NYU require the SAT or ACT for students applying in 2026-27?
- Test-optional: 'NYU will continue to remain test-optional through the 2027-2028 application cycle.'
Applying to NYU?
An acceptance rate describes the whole pool, not one student. A Specialist can read your student’s file against what NYU says it weighs.
Source: NYU Common Data Set, sections C1, C2, C7, C9 and C21, each year linked above, read 2026-11-05. Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with NYU. All official acceptance rates