<p>Mom at Home…</p>
<p>NYU applicants can only apply to ONE school at NYU. In other words, you cannot apply to both Tisch and Steinhardt or both Tisch and CAS, etc. Your D will not be able to apply and audition for both Tisch and Steinhardts’ MT programs. </p>
<p>The changes do not affect Steinhardt by the way. Steinhardt offers a BM (not BFA) degree in Musical Theater. Tisch is totally separate and unrelated to Steinhardt and there is NO overlap between the two schools. Any changes in studios at Tisch have no bearing on Steinhardt’s programs and so the Steinhardt BM in MT will be exactly as it is now when your D applies to it (should she choose that school to apply/audition at). </p>
<p>The changes at Tisch that would affect your D, should she apply, is that their MT studio will now be their New Studio and not the CAP21 studio. The details of that studio have not yet been released. But Tisch is a BFA in Drama (always has been even with CAP21 and always will be). Simply, the MT studio training will shift from CAP21 (an external studio not run by Tisch) to its own MT studio (the new studio). I hope and expect that the curriculum and other details of the new MT studio will be available for new applicants so that they can know the specifics of that program. In my opinion, while the details are not yet released about the new MT program, I have every faith that Tisch will make it as good as CAP’s program and could even be better. The standards in their BFA program are high. Further, Liz Bradley is the Dept. Chair for all of Tisch Drama and came from CMU where she also headed a department with superb MT training. I am sure she plans this new studio at Tisch to be excellent training as well.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what you know and don’t know but there are differences between a BM degree (what Steinhardt offers) and a BFA degree (what Tisch offers). This is true currently at NYU and will be true in the future and is true at any programs that offer training in MT.</p>