NYU: Tisch for Drama

TheRealKEVP
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:09:57 +0000

I think it is great that you are already done with high school at 16. You might want to take advantage of the fact that, since you are so young, you can take some extra time, like a year or two, to develop an absolutely AMAZING audition so that you can really compete with the other applicants at the top schools like NYU Tisch. Stagemum is correct that these are very competetive, but if you can focus on this completely, since you don’t have the distractions of high school like the other applicants, maybe you can make it.

If you don’t get in the first time you apply to Tisch, would you be willing to wait a year and try again?

After I dropped out of High School I took the GED, and this was considered the equivalent of a High School diploma by the universities I applied to. I did eventually get a BA (with honors) in Theatre, then went on to Law School and became a lawyer. I do not regret dropping out of high school.

I’ve never heard of the CHSPE. Is it the equivalent of a High School diploma, like the GED? You are pretty much going to need something equivalent to a High School diploma to apply to colleges, although there are one or two colleges in the U.S. that do not have this requirement.

Kat, I don’t think you are going to find happiness trying to please or impress your parents. Live your life for yourself. Go to college if that is what is going to help you get the life that YOU want.

KEVP