2009 Tisch Admitted Students' Day Feedback

NJTheatreMOM
Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:50:47 +0000

Msmia, my son had the exact same comment/complaint about questions directed to Playwrights reps and nobody from his studio, Adler.

It iz particularly unfortunate that there would have been nobody from Strasberg, as I suspect that a good number of kids attending the event yesterday were ones who were assigned an acting studio after being declined by CAP21. A lot of those students seem to have received a Strasberg assignment.

What to do? Well, it is possible for students to request an NYU student contact from their program through the Admitted Student Resource Page link that was e-mailed to them. I am advising my son to specifically request an Adler student via that resource. He said he is also willing to try to find Adler students through Facebook.

Kids are normally shy about approaching strangers on Facebook, but this is different.

Good luck!

AmbitiousMind, I will go through my notes and see if I can ID anything that you might find helpful. I can say that the general session for Tisch students was a charming wooing session for the most part…in a beautiful auditorium, yummy pastries set up outside, lots of praise and flattering words directed at the students, the screening of a wonderful and hilarious prize-winning student animated film.

An assistant Tisch dean asked, “How many of you are here because your parents forced you to study the arts?”…which was of course met by gales of laughter.

The students were asked to stand, and they were applauded by all. Then the parents were asked to stand and the students were directed to applaud us. At a couple of points, both my son and I had tears in our eyes.

Then there was a panel of reps from various offices such as Tisch student affairs, financial aid, counseling, etc, who answered question from parents (after the kids were already off in their individual groups) and they gave a strong impression of lots of support for families/students and “really caring.” :-)

As for visiting Tisch in coming days, you’d need to call and ask.