<p>So I’ve decided to go to NYU Tisch! Woooo.
Is there any “inside” information that I should know about? Food, dorms, classes, move-in day, etc?</p>
<p>We are wishing you all the best as you begin at NYU! We hope to meet you soon.</p>
<p>Ok, let’s see, what do you need to know?</p>
<p>You have made a GREAT choice! You are going to be so happy at Tisch. :)</p>
<p>Dorms: do you want a traditional dorm or an apartment-style one? NYU has freshmen dorms that are both styles. My D is in an apartment-style dorm, which means she does not have to buy a meal plan, because the apartments have small kitchens. The two apartment style dorms with which I am most familiar are my kid’s dorm, Third Avenue North and University Hall, though I read that UHall will no longer be a freshmen dorm next year.</p>
<p>If I were you, I would find out which dorm is closest to Strasberg and choose that one. 
Studio days are long. Depending on where Strasberg is (distance from Washington Square) you may have to travel a little farther on academic days (Mondays and Weds., freshmen year) but that is OK.</p>
<p>You have hardly any choice freshmen year for classes. Your studio classes are predetermined and you have to take Writing the Essay, a year long class. The WTE has a lecture component and another component where you go to a second session one night a week for about six weeks. The other class you take freshmen year is either Intro to Theater Studies or Intro to Theatre Production. You have to take both, though you can choose which one to take the first semester. </p>
<p>You also have choices of times for those classes (though not for the studio classes, which are proscripted) and will register online for them in August at a predetermined time that the University will send you. </p>
<p>You will get a lot of info about move in (procedures, etc.) and so on in August, when they sent you your housing assignment, roommate(s), etc. Some kids who are freshmen this year found roommates online in FB groups created for various studios, or just took random roommates. NYU has a very very basic questionnaire you can fill out online to help them match you up. Some kids love living with another actor and some think it’s nice to be with someone who is not an actor. So that will be your personal choice.</p>
<p>At the end of the school year - pay for the program that does moving and storage. They sent a flyer in the parent packet and I kept it. SO useful in a city. They dropped off boxes, S filled them up, called them, they picked them up, and in the next fall they were delivered to the new dorm as promised! Awesome service!</p>
<p>Almost forgot - my S’s year, and I think it may be same now, orientation was right before Labor Day and classes started right after. His complaint was after about 2 Orientation events most kids do not attend, and he was lonely over Labor Day weekend, His room mate was still staying in the hotel with his parents. SO, if you are going to the city for college drop off/vacation anyway, maybe try not to leave until Labor Day weekend is over, so your child can come see you if he gets lonely!</p>
<p>^^The majority of parents have left by then. Your son’s situation with his roommate was likely atypical.</p>
<p>Welcome Week actually offers TONS of events for freshmen, from a loft party where they can meet each other to a myriad of individual sessions/classes where they can learn things like how to use the subway system to ways to eat out inexpensively to, well, a drag show! Your son or daughter also will be asked to read a book before arriving and will be told to attend a session (which they sign up for) that is a discussion of said book. And while it is true that not all freshmen go to the Welcome Week events, most do find something (new friends, shopping to get stuff to supply their dorm rooms, etc.) to do during the week between move in and the beginning of classes. And, as soozie said, it is very very unusual for a freshman’s parents to hang around through the whole of welcome week! Most kids are eager to get off on their own, and most parents need to be back home to resume their lives. :)</p>
<p>I agree with Susan. Move in day is the Sunday a WEEK before Labor Day weekend, and the first events start that day usually, with, at minimum, a floor meeting and social event. I think it’s fine for parents to stay a couple of days but it’s a mistake for them to stay through the entire orientation week, and to stay til the end of Labor Day weekend is really too much! This is definitely an atypical situation. Most parents, if they stay Sunday night, will leave town Monday or Tuesday, latest. There is a ton of stuff for kids to do and, although some kids may stop attending organized events, the majority do not.</p>
<p>Can someone tell me what dorm CAP21 freshmen usually stay in?</p>
<p>CAP21 freshmen stay in ALL the freshmen dorms. You can put in your first through fifth choices for a dorm and hope for the best. However, the ones near Union Square are closer to CAP21 than the ones in Washington Square for freshmen (and other locations for upper classmen). If you want to be closer to CAP as a FRESHMAN, the choices have been the apartment style dorms (more expensive) which are University Hall and Third North (my D lived in Third North freshmen year), though someone posted above that U Hall may not be for freshmen next year (I have no clue as my kid is not in dorms any more and I don’t pay attention to them, nor the ones for freshmen). There are a bunch of traditional style dorms in and around Washington Square but these are a further walk from CAP, yet closer to the academic course buildings. As a Cappie, my D also lived in Union Square (Carlyle Court) soph year (not open to frosh) and it was quite close to the CAP studio, and she even could skip home for lunch! She has lived much further away since then and uses a subway. She also is now in ETW which is in the Tisch building.</p>
<p>Over the summer, you will have to stipulate first through fifth choice dorms and you can go to the NYU Housing site and look up each one and read about them and also see their location on a map. CAP21 is on 18th between 5th and 6th Ave. That is closest to Union Square. Academic stuff at NYU and the main campus are closer to Washington Square but both are in walking distance to one another and to CAP21.</p>
<p>Anyone looking for info on NYU residence halls should just google “NYU + residence halls” and it will bring you to a page where you can see all the buildings, info, whether they are freshmen only, where they are, etc.</p>
<p>Thank you both!</p>
<p>Go here, too, for an “unofficial” version:</p>
<p>[nyuhousing</a> Thid Avenue North](<a href=“http://nyuhousing.wikispaces.com/Thid+Avenue+North]nyuhousing”>http://nyuhousing.wikispaces.com/Thid+Avenue+North)</p>
<p>(And the misspelling is not my fault … I just cut and pasted the URL …)</p>
<p>Several ppl PM’d me re the company that did the moving and storage over the summer. I asked my S and he told me it was collegeboxes.com Hope it is still in biz, and it can be billed to parent’s CC.</p>
<p>Do not use College Boxes!!! We used them my Daughters Freshman year and they lost 3 of her boxes for over two months and we had to rebuy everything that were in them!!! Her roomate used Manhatten Storage and she got everything back</p>
<p>College Boxes has a very poor reputation, dating back to when my D was a freshman at Tisch which was six years ago (and probably even before!). I would not recommend them at all. We know two kids who, as recently as last September, had a similar experience as actressmom’s D.</p>
<p>Bob Vorlicky is a great teacher for ITS. </p>
<p>Mike Tyrell and Ben ____(something?) are great for WTE.</p>
<p>Take advantage of as many opportunities as you can and also make sure you keep yourself together/organized and not overloaded. Meet people. Take advantage of being in New York. Work really hard all the time. Have fun. Create communities of love and comfort and friendship so you have something when you get sad or lonely or overwhelmed. </p>
<p>There is so much free food at NYU if you look for it. Also loads of places have student discounts.</p>