Do contacts improve your chances of getting accepted?

milkshakespeare
Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:13:44 +0000

Hello,

I have heard some stories about this and I was wondering if the fact that you know someone from the faculty improves your chances of getting accepted into a certain college. I’m not applying to NYU because of my bad grades, but I’ve been taught by three or four teachers who are members of the undergraduate program faculty. If I’d gotten their recommendation letters would that improve my chances of getting accepted hypothetically?

I am also asking this because (although it’s not the same situation) I am applying to the “Collaborative and Devised Theater” program at Central School of Speech & Drama and some of the teachers are part of the British company Complicite, and I was taught by two members of the company for two weeks in London.

I’m just curious.