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150 Top Secondary School Students From 39 Countries To Comprise NYUAD Class Of 2014NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) announced today that 150 students from 39 countries on six continents are expected to make up its first freshman class, which will begin studies this fall. The admissions process was highly competitive, and yielded a class with exceptional academic qualifications, with SAT scores that rank the school in the top six of US Universities. "From the beginning, we hoped that NYU Abu Dhabi would be the ‘World’s Honors College,’” said NYU President John Sexton. “To create such a school, we knew that we needed to attract students who not only would be top candidates for admission at the best universities in the world, but who also possessed a special appetite for a cosmopolitan and diverse environment. Our inaugural class exceeds even these aggressive goals: indeed, by the available measures, they are arguably the most selective and internationally diverse entering class in the world.” The selectivity of the class was reflected in the applicants’ academic credentials. At the classes’ 75th percentile, the SAT critical reading score is projected to be 770 (ranking it fifth among US universities), with the 75th percentile for math being 780 (ranking it sixth). The median SAT score (on the 1600 scale) is projected to be 1470. In addition to their academic prowess, members of the NYUAD Class of 2014 are an internationally and culturally diverse group, representing 39 countries of origin, and with the median NYUAD student speaking three or more languages. Approximately one-third of NYUAD students will be from the United States; the next most popular countries of residence are the UAE, China, Hungary, and Russia. Students at NYU Abu Dhabi will enjoy close faculty interactions, with a student to faculty ratio that will not exceed eight to one. Faculty will consist of both standing NYU Abu Dhabi faculty, as well as members of NYU New York’s faculty who have been named as NYU Abu Dhabi Affiliated Faculty. NYUAD Affiliated Faculty in the first year include: two-time Pulitzer Prize winner David Levering-Lewis, professor of history; the renowned Lebanese novelist, playwright and critic Elias Khoury, global distinguished professor of modern Arabic literature; recent Guggenheim fellow Michael Purugganan, professor of genomics and biology; and Mary Carruthers, recipient of the Haskins Medal and professor of English. Other faculty of note include sociologist and political scientist Ivan Szelenyi, the former chair of the sociology department at Yale University and director of the school’s Center for Comparative Research, who recently joined the faculty of NYUAD, and also serves as the school’s dean of social sciences; former Yale Law School Dean Anthony Kronman, now an NYUAD global professor; and Philip Kennedy, a Middle Eastern literature scholar and faculty director of the NYUAD Institute, who is overseeing the first major translation series of Arabic texts as part of his work with NYUAD and its students. Levering-Lewis, Szelenyi and Kronman are members of the Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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