So when exactly are we getting our studio assignments?

newbie1
Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:17:13 +0000

I do agree with the comment below that NYU believes it has enough people seeking acceptance that they don’t really feel they have to “court” you, which is great for them.

However as a parent, it is comforting to know that a university cares about my child. I have experience with my children in other audition programs in large universities with over 35,000 students as well as d’s acceptance into another large school this year. It is wonderful that the other university has found the time to call (twice) and invite her to all day event (not 2 hours) and describe it to her in detail. They seem genuinely interested in getting her to accept which means a lot. My other children experienced the same personally attention upon acceptance from larger universities with voice and MT theater faculty who called them and even checked in over the summer which is a reassuring touch.

Last fall, NYU was my d’s dream school, but we did have some experience with NYU over the summer, and your child does have to be ready to live on their own without NYU’s assistance for housing, health related issues, etc. No complaints on the classroom training; it was great, however, she is looking at the entire experience and concerned over mentoring outside the classroom. We have talked to people in the old CAP21 who thought it was too big and impersonal. The decentralized campus at NYU has was cited in papers several years ago as being a reason for a higher suicide rate at NYU. In my opinion,the administration could go out of their way to try to counteract that by being a bit more congenial and put less stress on their accepted students.

As for timing, maybe it is just the schools that my child applied to but this was the very last notification of many schools (15 auditions) she applied to and the most confusing. Of course she is waitlisted on a couple, but NYU was the last that to send any communication and then it was mysteriously dragged out. Asking people to make travel arrangements for 3 days, some who would fly from far away, not giving any details, then having it be only a 2 hour event seems unnecessary. We called and they transferred us to admissions saying they could give no further information, not even the time. I am pretty sure they must have had it. We would have preferred for them not to spend the time sending out cryptic emails and had them focus their energy on getting students acceptances and studio placements out quicker. If this was suppose to be some big climatic build up to a great event, it did quite the opposite for us. We were completely turned off by the process.

The audition process is stressful enough for the students. We personally appreciate the universities who can quickly make decisions so the students know where they stand as well as give as much information as they can to students on where they are. Even most of the students who applied to the the larger university in the midwest know much more early on and they have excellent training as well.

Anyways, these are just our experiences and I know there are many happy students at Tisch. I guess it is good training for the “cattle calls” that the all the MT kids will experience once they graduate. Good luck to all where ever they choose.