<p>When you apply and audition, there is no specific studio that you are applying to. However, IF you are applying for MT, you do a MT audition, as opposed to simply an acting audition. At the audition, there is a little interview, and you can express what studio is your first choice (obviously for a MT applicant who does a MT audition, their first choice is the MT studio) and mention a second choice (no guarantees of which ones you will be placed in, which happens about a week after the acceptance). However, you CAN specify at the audition that you will ONLY be willing to be in a certain studio, for example, the MT studio. But if you say that, and there is no room to place you in that studio, you will not be considered for any other studio. If you don’t state, “I will only accept X studio,” and they are very interested in you, and can’t place you in your first choice studio, they will accept you for a different studio. Saying that you will only accept X studio doesn’t increase your odds of getting that particular studio but simply, guarantees you won’t be placed in any other studio and if anything, decreases the odds of being admitted to Tisch as you are not going to be considered for any other studio. </p>
<p>Now, there is ONLY ONE MUSICAL THEATER STUDIO in NYU/Tisch. It is called New Studio on Broadway for Musical Theater. Your confusion likely lies in the fact that until this year, the MT studio for Tischies was CAP21 studio. NYU/Tisch’s contract with CAP21 for training its MT students is being phased out. Everyone currently in that studio will finish in that studio. Those admitted to Tisch for MT starting this past year (and from here on out) are in New Studio on Broadway. Right now, that studio ONLY has a freshmen class and next year it will have freshmen and sophomores and so forth, with a new class added each year. The other studios at Tisch are for ACTING, though some of these studios have singing and dancing as part of the curriculum and in fact, Playwrights Horizons Studio has a MT Practicum semester. </p>
<p>Also, after two years in your primary studio placement, there is an option to switch to another studio for the final two years (or even after three years in one studio), though it may require an audition to switch into a different studio. For example, my own daughter, who is a Tisch graduate, studied in CAP21 studio for MT (which is no longer an option, and now the MT studio for Tischies is NSB) for five semesters and then auditioned to do Experimental Theater Wing studio (ETW) for her final three semesters. When she originally auditioned to get into NYU/Tisch, she did the MT audition and said that CAP21 was her first choice studio but was willing to be placed in another studio (and figured in April could weigh her options, though it turned out she got placed in the MT studio, CAP21, as desired). </p>
<p>There are NO “levels” of studios. Again, New Studio on Broadway is the only studio for MT at Tisch in future admissions cycles, and CAP21 will not be an option for your child when she applies in the future. </p>
<p>If your child wants MT, she should do a MT audition, not an acting audition and specify that NSB is her first choice studio. If she feels that is the only acceptable studio for her, she could say she only wants to be considered for that studio, but if she says she is open to another placement if she doesn’t get chosen for NSB, there is still a chance of being admitted to Tisch for another studio and she can decide whether to attend at that point. </p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>