<p>SDonCC – as best I can remember, I can’t think of any post of yours that has been other than a helpful post about your own child’s personal experiences. Of course, you should post about personal experiences. </p>
<p>The issue that others have. And it comes from people like Time3 that truly don’t have a horse in this race is that some NYU posters feel compelled to defend NYU when there seems to be no reasonable basis to view it as being challenged. And I suspect people’s sensitivity to the defense comes in part from the point you made in your post that lots of people that don’t follow this closely view Tisch as THE school. We live about 60 miles from NYC and it frustrates my daughter a bit that almost no one has ever heard of the school she is going to (UNCSA) and they certainly can’t understand picking the school over Tisch. We’re bombarded externally by Tisch so it particularly feels unnecessary when parents feel the need to come to its defense when a thread isn’t being critical. This happened to me earlier when I dared suggest that Tisch was only One of the top schools in response to a poster who referred to Tisch as THE school for theater. </p>
<p>Obviously, this thread has long since gotten away from the original subject. This is a great board and has been remarkably free of the kind of nonsense that appeas across the Internet. I hope it continues to be that way. To the Tisch parents, if you don’t want to have threads hijacked like this, I’d suggest stepping back and thinking about whether Tisch is really being criticized before coming to its defense. Throwing in the random hey Ball State is great because X, Y and Z into a thread not about Ball State (which happened quite a bit for a while) may annoy people but its going to be largely ignored. To do the same thing for Tisch – the program that every casual person seems to have heard of and graduates 10 times the numbers of many programs – is a recipe to get people’s backs up.</p>
<p>And to be fair those of us (like me) who can get a little annoyed by Tisch posts that aren’t really connected to the thread topic need to sometimes let it go.</p>