soozievt

I have heard of others in other states doing these summer Governors Honors programs and it sounds really amazing and definitely a huge accomplishment that your D got into it. I feel that when a child attends an immersion program that draws from a talent pool that is wider than their local pool, it is a great chance to kind of self assess in that talent pool. Her acceptance into that program is also one sort of benchmark you have to know that she is competitive for acting. While we don't have that here that I know of, I do think it has been beneficial for my own child to have competed in some state level competitions (like winning the state scholarship for classical voice and for jazz) and to attend summer theater immersion programs that draw from the country. These types of things were valuable for the experiences themselves but were also benchmarks and a way of seeing how competitive she might be beyond the local area.

Yes, my daughter is a junior at NYU/Tisch. She is 19, however, and would normally be a freshman in college by her birthdate. But she entered K early and then she also graduated high school early after her junior year. So, she is not that much older than your kids. If your D's friend got into CAP21 and is now a junior and has the initials of HC....I can think of two girls in her class with those initials (I don't know the entire class but of course, my D does!) and one's name (adding more letters) would be Ha---- Ch-- and the other is Ha---- Cr---. The first one I saw in the musical with my D of Jesus Christ Superstar and she has a great voice. The second one I have heard of through my D who says she is very talented. My guess is that one of these girls is your D's friend. Both know my D well. If your D discusses this, you could say my D is from VT, the one in N'Harmonics and who was just the lead in Only Children (Tisch Mainstage musical) and name begins with S, who recently switched into ETW studio.

poohie57

Yes it is the second one! How bout that? I hope to hear your D sing some day. My sister was a voice major and still has such a remarkably beautiful voice. Your D is so young. My D is 18 now, older for her grade but that is better for us since she may be far away! Your D is truly talented and our friend is doing well I think. I will let my D know. And her friend (HC) encouraged her to try for NYU and Emerson. Hope to see your D perform someday.

soozievt

Funny, small world. I do know that girl's name only because my D has mentioned how talented she is. I will keep my fingers crossed for your D. I know as a parent how much it means to see our children happy. While I am a college counselor and try to volunteer to help out, I really am a mom who is posting as well. I totally understand what everyone is feeling in this process. I am literally shaking at the moment since my older D just called with astonishing admissions news and seeing her dreams realized is a feeling that is indescribable! But let me say that even the acceptances she received in the last few days before the ones today, felt awesome and lucky and were good enough. Getting into top schools is like a cherry on top but frankly, getting in anywhere is enough.

SarasMom

Wow, thank you all for answering my questions and providing insight and some solice. I've relayed the info to my daughter and she's feeling better about things. :-)

Finding this board has been such a blessing! Thank you!

soozievt, I hear you loud and clear. We definitely made a mistake by not insisting she put some more reasonably attainable schools on her list as a fallback. After researching on this board she scrambled to find some at the last moments. Luckily, some of our State Colleges extended their app deadlines and she applied to few just a week and half ago! It's quite a roller coaster but we believe whatever happens it'll all work out. Thank you again for giving so much of your time to helping us total newbies. :-)

fresh57

Is it necessary that students were admitted to go? I'm from Texas, and I can't really afford to go for a weekend if it's just a meet and greet type thing.

soozievt

It is definitely not necessary to attend!! It is a meet and greet as well as informative. If you have already visited, you may not feel you need to go again. My D wanted to go and we did, even though she already knew she'd be attending NYU/Tisch and had visited twice before. For some, these open house events on college campuses for admitted students that take place in April help them to make their final decisions where to matriculate. The events can be very helpful in that way. Again, you do not need to attend if your mind is made up and you have already visited.

fresh57

I havn't visited the school yet, nor have I made up my mind. I'm still waiting on other schools. Do you think I should go?

soozievt

Yes, if you can find a way to go, I think you should. However, first find out all the options you are handed (you'll know those all in two weeks). From the options you are handed, decide which ones you are considering seriously (narrow it down). If you haven't visited those, you truly ought to do so because you are making a committment of huge amounts of money and four years of your life and that is hard to do without some FIRST HAND observations and talking directly to people at programs and so forth. It is a big decision. It does cost money but in the scheme of what it costs to attend for four years, this is a small amount and could be considered part of the cost of attending college. Even if you cannot make the event, I would do visits to your final choices during the month of April, if at all possible. Let me add that while I think this is important no matter which colleges are involved, I really think with NYU that you need to get a feel for what it is like to go to school in Manhattan. It is not for everyone. Make certain it is for you.

When my older D got into college, and she had already visited every single one on her list prior to applying, she narrowed her acceptances down to three to revisit at the April open house events. These visits helped her to make up her mind where to attend and in fact, it was AT the open house (at the end of the two day event) at Brown that my D said, "I'm going here!" and it has been a glorious four years and the open house really helped her to make up her mind. Now, as an admitted student to many grad schools, we are back with her having to go to the open houses to make her mind up in the coming weeks. I really recommend this approach, particularly if you have never visited your options.

For my D who got into NYU and had seen it, she knew once admitted, that she would definitely attend as it was her dream to go to NYU since age 12. Even so, we still went to the open house as it was very exciting to be wrapped up on looking to the future and it was informative and fun and was quite a special day (adding to the fact, that it was her first day out of a hospital bed and very injured and confined to a wheelchair and it was full of hope for her recovery to attend NYU six months later in the fall).

triumph

I am confused. Some have said the invites go out to a select few so they can make travel arrangements, i.e. they live a good distance from NY. Others have said it is based on GPA. Does anyone know which it really is? If it is distance based, then no one from NY, NJ, CT, etc should have recevied one, correct?

alwaysamom

triumph, I think you have misunderstood what people have said. The invitations are definitely not distance based. They are, indeed, sent out to a relatively small group of accepted students who have been identified as some 'top' students. How this group is chosen has never really been definitively explained by NYU. However, it is the group that NYU wants to 'convince' to enroll as freshmen in the fall.

The invitations are sent out prior to the official acceptance packages so that those who happen to require travel arrangements are able to make those arrangements. This doesn't mean that every student who will be attending will have to fly to NYC for the event. It just means that people have time to plan, regardless of where they live. Even those who have to drive will, presumably, have to make some arrangements. The event for Tisch is on April 5. If they didn't send the invitations earlier than the official letters, some students would have less than a week to make those plans.

soozievt

Ditto everything that AlwaysAMom wrote above.

Please know that it is not based on GPA itself.
It is definitely completely unrelated to geographic distance. In fact, at the event, at the welcoming, they read off every state and country represented there that day and I'd say almost every state was represented. As the above member wrote, no matter where you live, you would need advance notice in order to plan to attend. Plenty of kids were there from NY, NJ, CT, and PA. In fact, I know someone who was there who lived in Manhattan. I recall at Tisch Scholars, they went around the circle and asked everyone to introduce themselves and where they were from and I was smiling when one girl (who has now become a very good friend of my D's and who also was in CAP21) gave the number of the street in Manhattan she was from and I thought, gee, she didn't have to come too far!

karenteic

I talked to the Admissions office about Saturday in the Square and they reiterated that not all accepted applicants get invited. They didn't say it was the top 10% - they said it was based on when the advisor gets to the applicants file. If the advisor hadn't gotten to the file, then they would get an invite by April 1st if accepted.

I think the top 10% sounds more realistic though. I would think they would put some effort into those invites, as the Ivies do with their "likely" letters. The first explanation leads me to assume that NYU is either overwhelmed with applications and don't have the staff to process everything.

MomsterofM

Is this an event that we should try to attend? We live in CA, and have just made 3 trips across the country for auditions.

NYU has not been my D's top choice, but she is excited about it right now. We have never visited NYU, we have been to NYC, but not in a few years. Her top choice is Michigan, if she gets in, she will go there, but she won't hear until the end of the month. Her other high choice we won't hear from until close to the end of the month. She has visited both of these schools. If she does not get into Michigan, she willl have to make a choice between NYU and the other school.

If she doesn't get into CAP21, that will make the decision easier, but it sounds like we may not know that until after this event.

The other schools on her list aren't in the running, and she got rejected from a couple, so it's really down to these three.

Oh what a quandry!! I don't imagine there is any obvious solution that I'm just not seeing. If only I could win the lottery today.

I guess what I am wondering is, should we make the effort to go to this event, or just wait until after she knows exactly what schools she is accepted to and see what kind of decision she has to make? She IS on Spring Break the week of the NYU event, so that does make it a LITTLE easier, as far as school goes.

StickerShock

Momster, congrats. I wish I could shake the money tree in my back yard & send some $$ your way. It would be really worthwhile to see NYU, simply because it is so very different than most college campuses. There are night and day differences between the big football/school spirit/traditional campus of Michigan & NYU's "NYC is our campus" atmosphere. I hope you can make it happen.

danceaddict

is saturday in the square only for tisch undergrads or accepted tisch grad students as well?