<p>What I disagreed about on NYU is the statement in a post that the audition counts more than academics when each of those counts 50% at NYU/Tisch, unlike many other BFA in MT programs. </p>
<p>I also said that a GPA of 2.8 is highly unlikely for acceptance to NYU, but that doesn’t mean it is impossible. The odds go down, however, when one’s academic profile is on the lower end for a college’s acceptance range for admitted students. At any college, there are a small number of kids admitted at the lowest range of admitted stats to that college. This should be examined when one is evaluating their chances of academic admission. For example, at NYU, where the avg. GPA of admitted students is 3.6, those with a 3.6 or higher GPA have greater chances of being admitted than those with a 2.8 GPA. The 25th to 75th percentile range for admitted students to NYU 3.4-3.8. Those with a GPA under 3.4 are admitted, but at a lower rate of acceptance and the further away (lower) from a 3.4 that one has, is even lower still, even if there is a slight chance. Approximately 3% of admitted students to NYU had a GPA between 2.50 and 2.99. Those are very low odds and so a student would have to be very strong in some other admission criteria to balance out those odds. Again, not impossible, but also not too likely.</p>
<p>I will add that NYU, like most selective schools, does not use a GPA cut off. Talking about GPA here out of context is not that useful in my view. We don’t know the rigor of the student’s chosen curriculum, the class rank, the standardized test scores, the essays, the recommendations, achievements, hooks, and so on, all of which go into the academic part of admissions. It would be unwise to estimate one’s chances of admission by comparing one’s GPA to another person’s GPA without all the other factors factored in.</p>