<p>Hi there 
my name is Nick, and I’m a current undergraduate studying philosophy, with perhaps a minor in English, at WVU, and I’m highly considering going to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for either dramatic writing or film, iffen I can get into the program. What I need though, is help, perhaps an alumnus with whom I can speak to get a sense of direction–I’ve got about a year before I have to have my application turned in, and I really want to make sure it’s perfect. </p>
<p>I think NYU Tisch would be a great school for me–I’m very intelligent in my own right and have worked hard all my life, despite great mitigating factors during my development, such as bad upbringing, divorces, moving around, ill treatment and so on…I left home when I was eighteen (three days after my birthday) and have been living life on my own, barely, ever since. I’ve seen a lot in the short 20 years that I’ve been alive, but best of all, I’ve learned to put those things in their places and learn from them. Now, I may not be totally whole again, but I am individuating, maturing, truly making myself into a self-sufficient man, and I’ve yet to even mention the arts. I’ve been writing stories in notebooks since I was a little kid, and moved onto poetry early in high school, which I’ve also been writing and excelling in ever since (I’ve twice been published in online magazines); I’ve been playing the guitar since the first day of high school, and have in the past few years of college recorded two full length demo tapes of original and covered music, and countless other songs, which I edited, put together, and burned onto CDs myself to distribute for free around town; taking my craft to the streets, I’ve performed many times on High Street (main strip in town) with a friend, busking and meeting fellow musicians and good folk; recently, I have taken up the hobby of painting, and am more and more interested in applying all that I have learned from life and art to film and television writing. I’ve worked my hardest to transform into the artist I want to be, regardless of how people look at me or how much money I make, and I do not plan on stop, nor do I plan on entering this lifestyle for superficial reasons–I love art, and writing, and philosophy, and I want so badly to go to this school! Is there anyone with whom my story resonates that would like to talk about my chances of getting into NYU Tisch? </p>
<p>My grades in high school were great, kept me in the top 10 of the class all four years, and I went to the statewide Governor’s Honors Academy and was involved in a lot of other clubs and programs; in college, times have been harder, and I will be graduating with a lot of W’s due to one very bad, poor year…but other than that, I am taking the best classes I can, participating in multiple clubs and programs (still), working for my university (I am a student advisor, for one: would that help me get in?), and keeping at least a 3.2 GPA now, after such a ****-storm of a year. But I learned from those two bad semesters where I dropped out, and could even say that they taught me more than two semesters at WVU ever could. I hope this is enough information to start some good discussion and maybe meet some current students/alumni!</p>