<p>Any idea when/how Steinhardt notifies acceptances?</p>
<p>Just did a quick search for last year’s decisions and it looks like closer to the end of March, possibly April 1. Looks like it was March 29th last year from the posts on CC. I don’t know if they were emails or letters. Not much help but that should give us a ballpark.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure they were emails last year and years prior. Also,NYU’s Albert online system gives admission decisions, so I would check there, too. Whynotdreambig, I think our Ds had the same college list! We are waiting on Steinhardt, too.</p>
<p>NYU goes on spring break all next week. According to previous patterns, I would guess that emails will go out on March 29, late afternoon. They push the big “send” button at the end of the workday for all NYU acceptances and make a big deal of it, even posting pics on the NYU internal website. Sooooo many students are involved that it becomes a party that it’s all done!</p>
<p>I posted this on the Tisch thread but it has relevance here because I believe admissions for all of NYU, not just Tisch came out together (the big push of the button as Christie describes above). Anyway, here is the exact rundown of last year:</p>
<p>There were plenty of rumors about dates and times swirling about last year most of which were not true. Many people were calling admissions and being told various things which also turned out not to be entirely true. Especially strong was the rumor about the last Friday in March but it turned out they came on Thursday. Let me tell you exactly what happened last year:</p>
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<li><p>shortly before 4 PM EST on Thursday 3/29/12 people started to be able to view their admissions decisions in Albert (the online access). This was despite admissions insistance that the first indication would be an email and that you would not know from checking albert.</p></li>
<li><p>about 50 minutes later the acceptance emails came out. I would assume rejections were also sent as well but I don’t know this first hand.</p></li>
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<p>Doesn’t mean any of this will hold true for this year but to save you the work in piecing it together by looking through old threads, this is exactly what happened last year for sure because I still have the emails with the dates and time stamps to refer to. You should assume that the results will come out when they come out but sure… keep an eye on Albert as you close in on the end of the month. Seems that the decisions tend to come out before 4/1.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>This just out from NYU: “Freshman admission decision emails have started to “hit land” – so to speak. Please understand that we send admission decisions in waves to ensure that our servers will deliver all emails effectively without further delays. This means that it will be impossible to predict exactly when and in what order students from around the world will receive their admission decisions. We expect that all decisions should be received by Monday morning, April 1 (Eastern Standard Time). If you do not receive your admission decision by Monday morning, you can call then (but not before then) to receive your admission decision over the phone.”</p>
<p>I know that acceptances went out today- so CONGRATS to everyone!!! I’m so excited to meet the new Freshman class!! Seriously, if anyone has any questions, feel free to PM me! I just got done ASMing a show, so I will have loads of time on my hands in which to answer them :)</p>
<p>KSwag10, my D and I already met with you in Washington Square Park to discuss Steinhardt a year ago…but today she was accepted! We may like to ask you some more questions. Are you still loving it?</p>
<p>Congrats to your D- YES ask as many questions as you like!! And YES, I am still loving it!!!</p>
<p>How are the vocal teachers, and how do you get matched up with them? How are the acting classes? And (please be blunt) how hard is it to balance NYU’s tough academics with the MT classes?</p>
<p>Hi Monkey, this is KSwag’s mom, as I’m sure you know. She and I have been following your d’s acceptances, and she has quite a choice to make. I am sure that KSwag will be more than happy to answer all your questions, but as she mentioned she is assistant stage managing a show this weekend, with one performance tonight, and 2 tomorrow and 2 Sunday, so it may take her a bit to get back to you. But, after this weekend, she will have tons of time on her hands. If you pm her or me, we can give you her phone #, or perhaps she will give you her skype address so you can have a nice, long discussion, or more than one! Congrats to your d! Anyone else with questions, ask away!</p>
<p>The voice teachers are AMAZING!! My voice teacher was actually a 2009 graduate of the masters program (there were actually a lot of people from that class who work in the program now), and I love working with him! My voice lessons are one of the highlights of my week. I actually just had what I think is the best lesson I have ever had this past Tuesday- something just clicked in my process and my teacher and I ran with it! There can be a stereotype about this program that voice teachers never let you sing “modern music” or (heaven forbid I use this word) “BELT” (ahhhh) :), but really, or at least with my teacher, we just work on the music that will best help my voice grow at that point. My teacher is very open to singing all kinds of music, but he will let me know if I want to sing a particular song and he doesn’t want me to because it will hurt more than it will help. I don’t really “BELT” in my voice lessons, but it isn’t because my teacher is forbidding me. I agree with him that that just isn’t where my voice is yet. An none of the voices of the people in my class aver really sound the same, which I think is a testament to the fact that the teachers are doing what is best for our individual voices. The show I’m ASMing for has two girls that are full-on “BELTING” though (and doing it extremely healthily), so it really just depends on the person. I love singing the huge variety of music that I sing, and I think it is making my voice much stronger because I can go back and forth so easily. In my last two lessons, I have sung two French art songs, a Barber classical piece, a song from Hello Dolly, and a contemporary ballad. I am never bored, and my teacher ALWAYS listens to me if I have concerns!!</p>
<p>During what is called Welcome Week at NYU, which is the first week of school, where you don’t have any classes but just have freshman activities and things, you are required to sing for a Voice Diagnostic, where you sing for Dianna Heldman, who is kind of the “head voice teacher” and usually most of the voice faculty, so that you can be placed with the best voice teacher for you. A lot of time the placement is affected by who has room in their studio, but they are really good at matching students and teachers. As always, there are some matches that don’t end up working out, but the faculty is really good about listening to your concerns and helping you switch teachers if necessary.</p>
<p>My experience with the acting classes has been pretty good! Obviously, this is a Vocal Performance program, so you are not going to have quite as many acting classes as a straight acting program would, but one thing that Steinhardt does AMAZINGLY well is merging singing and acting. You don’t take an “acting class” per se your freshman year, but you take Speech and Diction for the entire year, which is basically a combination of Linklater voice and speech work, a bit of Stanislavski, some dialects, and a WHOLE LOT of text work and analysis. While it was a bit frustrating to not be in an actual “acting” class, I am so glad that they made us take this first, because it really makes your speech technique and text work so solid that you don’t really have to worry about it when you move to “acting”. </p>
<p>Sophomore year you take Acting I and II. It has been a little interesting this year, because normally there are just two sections, but there was kind of a “backorder” situation where a lot of the current juniors hadn’t been able to take Acting II as sophomores, so they added another section and hired a new adjunct. I took both classes with Meg Bussert (who is AMAZING-look her up!!), and my experience has not really been what I expected. Meg focuses on what might be called an “outside-in” approach, but I hate to call it that, because it kind of has a bad connotation. She LOVES Uta Hagen and Chekhov, and so a lot of our study has been on the physical and vocal aspects of acting, such as gestures and pitch and tempo of the voice. Sometimes it can seem superficial, but I have realized that what she is really trying to get us to do is to break out of the habits and patterns that we get into and try to find a strong, but simple and logical truth in what we are doing. One thing that Meg always says, that I love, is “You should never sit there and think (assume Rodin “Thinker” pose), ‘What’s my motivation?’ , just get up and DO SOMETHING!” She pushes really hard, but it is never to force you into something, it is just to get you to try something different. I’m going to take Acting III next semester, which right now is the last “acting” class the program has, but I believe they are working on expanding the options. </p>
<p>You also work on acting in your Song Analysis, Scene Study, and MT Song Rep classes, where you perform songs as solos and as song + scene with other people. It always says on the front page of the syllabi for these classes that “This class is primarily an acting class”, even though most of the work is done with music. I have learned just as much about acting in these classes as I have in my straight acting classes, and I have brought things that I have learned from Song Analysis and Scene Study into Acting and vice versa.</p>
<p>The MT classes + the academics really depends on the person and the situation. I was lucky, because I worked my butt off in my high school AP’s and came to NYU with 24 credits. This canceled out most of the academics- called MAP courses at NYU (Morse Academic Plan) for me, so I actually have to take a minor so that I have enough credits left for my senior year, which I wanted to do anyways! I am minoring in Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology, which is a really common minor for Steinhardt MTs because the classes fit really well into our crazy schedules. There is even a class specifically focusing on the Business of Broadway, which I am really excited to take. Most of the time, you only have enough room in your schedule to take one MAP per semester, so you never really have too much on your plate. Most of the work for your MT classes are done in class or in private practice, so we have more and longer classes but less traditional homework. Everyone is required to take Writing the Essay and The Advanced College Essay (ACE is only for Steinhardt students). These classes are really annoying, but they are almost kind of like a rite of passage- you feel really accomplished once you have passed them! They both consist of exercises that you write every week that lead up to three giant papers that are the entirety of your grade. What really sucks about them is the CRAZY work load. You really have to decide what your priorities are, and so most of us put a little less effort into our writing classes than we maybe should have, but we all got good grades. A lot of those two classes really depends on the professor, and my ACE professor was really great and made the class fairly enjoyable. He even recommended that I submit one of my essays for Mercer Street, the university-wide sample essay textbook for the class, which is kind of a big deal (even though mine didn’t get chosen). And honestly, after you get past those classes and become a sophomore, your workload gets A LOT LIGHTER!!</p>
<p>If you don’t get out of them, you also have to take a Math, a Science, two semesters of Language, Texts and Ideas, which is a lot of reading and writing, a Cultures class, and a Social Sciences class. I only had to take the Social Sciences (I took Econ) and the Language- and I’m really excited because I’m studying French abroad in Paris this summer!! A few people end up taking MAPs over Winter or Summer terms so their schedules aren’t as jam-packed during the year. You just have to do what works for you. What I always have to remind myself is that I am here to study MT, not econ or literature, and so it is okay if I don’t get straight A’s if I am using the time to devote myself to my art form :)</p>
<p>Sorry for the SUPER long winded answers- I just really love it here!</p>
<p>KSwag10, this was SO helpful! Thank you so much. My D has taken a number of AP classes this year, so hopefully she will come with credits, too. Thank you for all your help! I may have more questions…</p>
<p>Thank you KSwag and Christie! My son was accepted to Steinhardt VP/MT on Friday, and, boy, is he proud! I will send him on over here as soon as he gets home. 
I remember KSwag’s post last year, life as a freshman, and I will look back and find that for him as well.</p>
<p>And also, if anyone is coming to visit NYU for Weekend on the Square or any other time to check it out, and want to meet an actual student in person I would be happy to if I am free!!</p>