Yesterday I had my NYU musical theatre audition, and I thought it went well. The singing evaluator said I had a gorgeous voice and the acting evaluator seemed very interested in me. However, I’m my worried about my grades. My weighted GPA is a 3.54 and my SAT superstore is a 1220. I have taken a total of 6 AP classes, and I have various extracurriculars. Nonetheless, I don’t know if this makes a difference, but I do currently go to a college prep school. Do you think I have a chance?
@aweihl98 don’t get your hopes up, but based on my experience, I’d say you have a good fighting chance. I applied for Tisch (Drama) ED1 and auditioned back in November. I was terrified and praying that my extensive theatre background and good comments from the person who judged my audition would be enough to get me into my dream school since I had a 3.3 gpa, have had 4 AP classes and the rest are PAP, ranked only 62/445 in my class and got an 1150 on my SAT (WHICH I OPTED NOT TO EVEN SEND MY SCORE IN TO THEM) and magnificently enough, Just found out a few weeks back that I got into Tisch. Talent matters, and if it makes up what you lack in grades, you’ll be fine. They all say that the real application and the artistic review are weighted equally in the decision process, but if you’re talented enough, I feel it definitely will have a greater pull than your grades. Hope this helped ease your nerves! 
1250 SAT would be the 25th percentile for all admits to NYU. 30% of admitted students had gpa’s of 3.49 or below. (This data is from the latest common data set.)
So I would say that if the audition went well, you do have a real shot of being accepted based on your academics. It’s not that academics aren’t considered equally–they are–but there is a lower minimum for an audition program than a program that is solely based on academics. Plenty of students may “pass” the audition but not be accepted because their grades are below the minimum standard. But someone who is at that 25th percentile or so, probably has a decent shot.
Good luck!
You have a good chance , my D was accepted into NYU Tisch New School for musical theatre. GPA 3.75