Accepted to Tisch for Film!
GPA: 3.87 weighted (my school doesn’t do unweighted, thank god)
SAT: 1570
14 APs including senior year (yet my GPA…rip)
EC’s: part-time job for the past 1.5 years, paid internship over the summer in the communications department of a tech company, president of Chinese Student Association, a few honor societies, volunteer at animal therapy place, a few other volunteer/cultural/social justice/art clubs, etc.
Honors/others: Won school science fair, Honorable Mention at regional’s lol, art was chosen for a local art show, academic awards
Recs from my history teacher and art teacher
I heard for art/Tisch, NYU weighs 50% on normal app. and 50% on the creative portfolio? So creative portfolio:
I wrote my essays for my portfolio all in the last two days, no editing, just submitted once everything was done lmao. Personally, I think they were okay - topics were a bit similar but shows that I am very passionate about art, beauty, etc. and want to share my perspective with the world. Also, I’m a huge fan of philosophy, so just lots of existential, self-analysis stuff!
My creative resume was not bad, a decent amount of activities, but didn’t fill up the whole page hahah. Though I didn’t have any film-related stuff, I had different art, music, and dance activities.
Creative submission wasn’t good LOL. I submitted a really rushed, kind of crappy, low-quality film that wasn’t really a narrative, more introspective psychobabble. (I didn’t have anyone to film because none of my friends know I want to do film…) Then, in the last section on SlideRoom, I linked a Google Website I created with some pieces from my AP art portfolio that I’m doing this year. Don’t know if they actually looked at it though - just wanted to slip in other art so they could see I don’t suck that much ?
I still can’t believe it. My parents were SO surprised when I told them. No one expected me to get in, and EDII was an impulse decision. Wow!
Congrats to those who got in!! And good work, everyone! We all worked hard these past 4 years and in the end, I’m sure we’ll all be happy with the places we’ll be going to :))