<p>I know someone who works at Tisch, and he wrote me a recommendation letter. Will this help a little more than a regular lettere since he works there?</p>
<p>maybe a little more.</p>
<p>I’m hoping it will. I didn’t do amazing on my SATs so I want this to make up for it.</p>
<p>I did something similar. (My uncle, who is an adjunct professor at NYU Law, graduated from NYU Law, regularly employs NYU Law grads, and knows the dean wrote me a letter on top of my other recs.) I’m not sure how much it will actually help - probably not enough to significantly balance your SAT scores - but it definitely can’t hurt!</p>
<p>My SAT scores weren’t TERRIBLE. A little lower than NYU standards.
All in all I got a 1680 
I’m bad at that kind of test.</p>
<p>hannahorenstein - apparently, LORs from family members are discouraged because they may not be as objective as would be desired; but I think since your uncle actually WORKS at NYU, it will work in your favor :)</p>
<p>kelryry - tisch is a more forgiving, if they really want you as a performer, they will certainly not weight your testing so heavily :)</p>
<p>Along the lines of “How much will this help?”: Everyone says an extensive resume is not needed for Tisch. But, I have an extensive resume with awards, film festival acceptances, internship experience, etc. Could that make up for average test scores (1900’s) and little below average GPA (3.5’s)???</p>
<p>Of course jjohn42</p>