<p>Got this off the web page and thought it might be helpful.</p>
<p>Starting in late March and extending into April, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions hosts a variety of events on and away from the NYU campus for freshmen who will be offered admission. As invitations to these events arrive in mailboxes across the country over the next few weeks we want you to keep a few things in mind. </p>
<p>First, our admissions process continues through the end of March. While we are in the process of finalizing decisions, we must also begin mailing program invitations so that families can make necessary travel arrangements. However, at this time we are still actively reviewing applicants and making admissions decisions. As such, not receiving an invitation is in no way an indication of an admissions decision. All applicants will receive official admissions decisions notification on or around April 1st.</p>
<p>Further, each of our schools and colleges offer different events; some sponsor a single event, while others host several. Because of space limitations on campus, and our desire to do everything we can to ensure that all visitors have a quality experience and ample opportunity to have all of their last-minute questions answered completely, we purposely spread out attendance by staggering our events, and by staggering the mailing dates of our invitations. Quite simply, all of our soon-to-be-admitted students will be invited to an admissions event, but not everyone will receive the same invitation or receive them at the same time.</p>
<p>We certainly understand that this is an anxious time for students as they await our official decision. However, we discourage students from trying to read too much into what not receiving an invitation may or may not indicate. Please try to be patient</p>
<p>Yes, this is a reference to various events held by (I believe) the various schools at NYU. For instance, I know for a fact that the CAS sent little cards out to some admitted applicants this week, but Tisch won't do the same until they send the Saturday in the Square invites out in a week or so. (Sooz, I hope I have this right.)</p>
<p>Are you, by chance, referring to being admitted academic-wise or do you mean that those who get invited can expect to be accepted into Tisch ? For all I can keep straight, they may not work independantly of each other but there are so many schools and so many details....!</p>
<p>If you get an acceptance to Tisch, you get an acceptance to NYU. And vice versa! There is not a two step process at NYU.</p>
<p>Now another reason to tackle the mailman every afternoon! I think the poor guy actually feels badly for me when he's got no big envelopes to deliver into my pathetically anxious hands. Now, apparently, all good things do not come in the big, white ones. I'll have to update him so he's still in the loop!</p>
<p>NOelle'smom,
NotMamaRose was referring to some students who applied to the COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AT NYU, and NOT Tisch applicants, in terms of who got a card in the mail yesterday. Some selected CAS admitted students got this early "notification" that they will be admitted soon. This was ONLY FOR CAS applicants, NOT Tisch ones. It has nothing to do with Tisch. </p>
<p>For Tisch, some selected ADMITTED students will hear earlier than April 1 by receiving an invitation to an event called Saturday in the Square for admitted Tisch students. You can still be admitted even if not invited to this event. They have to send these invitations with enough lead time in order for people to make travel arrangements since the event is typically about a week after official decision letters come out around April 1. So, some admitted TISCH students should receive such an invitation. Based on prior years, this could happen in a week or ten days or so. Three years ago, when my D got the Saturday in the Square invitation, it was postmarked March 18 and I will never forget it because she was in the hospital recovering from surgery and very serious injuries from a car crash and on morphine and in bad shape and my husband went home for the night (I lived at the hospital which was 50 miles from home) and got the mail and called her in the hospital and she screamed for joy of a dream come true and the nurses ran in to ask why she was crying! It was the best medicine for hope. Hang tight....perhaps in a week or so, these Tisch invites will go out. Also, as AlwaysAMom mentions, the admissions process at Tisch is "all in one".......academics and artistic combined....all or nothing.</p>
<p>To those interested, I just heard about a young lady who learned yesterday that she was accepted at Tisch (CAP21) with a huge scholarship (20K). </p>
<p>I am not sure how she found out, but it appears that notifications may start coming out, at least for those who qualified for special scholarships (need based in conjunction with high academic scores).</p>
<p>Also, someone posted on the general NYU thread regarding the invite postcards that are being sent out that he/she has a friend, who was accepted at Tisch. I asked if he/she could clarify if it was a "scholarship/admission notification or a postcard one", just to pass on the news here if any. Will keep you all updated :).</p>
<p>For those wondering how I know this stuff, D has MT friends all over the place and her phone is buzzing with text messages like it has gone out of style :). I am sure you will all understand that I will not be posting names or even initials however...</p>
<p>OMG MTgirlsmom,</p>
<p>You get the best info!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>keep it coming...</p>
<p>mtgirlsmom, I am very surprised to hear that someone was already notified about acceptance to CAP21, let alone with a huge scholarship. Even the kids who traditionally are accepted into the scholars program (and I realize that the program does not necessarily mean scholarship $) hear along with everyone else, albeit are invited to the Saturday in the Square event. Forgive me if I'm skeptical, but unless something in the process has changed this year, this is the first time I've heard of this happening in all the years I've been involved in 'watching' Tisch admissions.</p>
<p>If true, this would be very different than anything I have heard or experienced at Tisch. </p>
<p>My own kid won the $20,000 Trustee Scholarship as well. She also was selected as a Tisch Scholar (these are two SEPARATE things). The order of things she found out was first....
Saturday in the Square invite (selected Tisch accepted students) postmarked March 18
Selection as a Tisch Scholar (this is not a scholarship itself)....I forget the arrival date but the letter is dated March 17.
NYU/Tisch acceptance....I forget the exact arrival date but the letter is dated April 1.
Financial aid letter with Trustee Scholarship as part of it....I forget exact arrival date but it was close to April 1, or last week of March.
Notification of studio placement....while dated April 1, I recall it arriving about a week after the official NYU/Tisch acceptance. </p>
<p>I have saved all of these papers. I also recall a lot of it because at the time, our lives were centered on a ten day period in the hospital (which dates I definitely recall... March 13-23) when the Saturday in the Square invite came. This was followed by a 2 week period (March 23 to April 7) of confinement in a hospital bed in our living room during which is when the Scholarship came and the CAP21 studio assignment came. Her first day out of a hospital bed was to travel to the Saturday in the Square event, in a wheelchair....which was held on April 9. So for me, given the very significant events going on in my child's life at the time, I remember it all very vividly.</p>
<p>By the way, an acceptance doesn't come with a studio assignment and that doesn't sound right about the friend unless that kid specified CAP21 or nothing, which my D did not do. She gave CAP21 as a first choice (and got it) and a second and third choice studio. So, an acceptance in such cases doesn't let a kid know the studio until the studio assignment letter arrives.</p>
<p>At the risk of dating myself -- "The times, they are a-changing" I can't speak directly to NYU, but I do know that some schools who as recently as 2 years ago notified by snail mail only have been showing up on these boards this year as notifying by phone call and email.</p>
<p>So, if someone states that they received acceptance and notice of scholarship, I would take them at their word, even if that doesn't fit into the "old ways."</p>
<p>Would love to know about Steinhardt MT acceptances/invites, too. D's friends from her summer program there haven't heard yet either. D is on pins and needles. She just had a private voice lesson with an NYU professor on Sunday, but she was afraid to ask about admissions info. Does anyone know how it was handled in the past? Thanks!</p>
<p>alwaysamom - well, I have no real reason to suspect that this girl would be lying, although granted, I have not physically seen her paperwork :). It did not sound like some big hoax to me as she is 'floored' by it all. Apparently she was accepted at UMich for MT as well, so my guess is that this is just a very talented young lady. </p>
<p>SoozieVT - I remember your D's exceptional circumstances quite vividly from reading about it on CC, and who could forget her amazing scholarships from the same posts; in fact when I heard about this particular girl, my first thought was she sounds like the "new SoozieVT's D" :D.</p>
<p>MusThCC - I agree 100% that it seems that "The Times They Are A-Changing", and that what happened in the past may not be a standard this year, or in years to come. CMU is another example of a school that comes to mind, that seems to have started notifying their kids a whole lot sooner this year. </p>
<p>uskoolfish - so sorry, but I don't have info on Steinhardt. I will be happy to post if I hear something :).</p>
<p>MusThCc, that's exactly why I said "unless something in the process has changed", and, actually, it would be MANY things in the process which would have changed for all these details for this girl to be the case. Much earlier actual acceptance, prior to even the notice for accepted students event, and, as Susan said, studio assignment being included in the offer of admission package. That studio letter, in the past, has always arrived a week after the acceptance, usually into the second week of April. This would be a full month earlier that they're notifying students this year, a real departure from their traditional method. It may very well have changed, though. I'll check through some channels with people I know and see if I can confirm that those of you who are awaiting a Tisch decision, may hear much sooner than you originally thought! :)</p>
<p>And there is always that old saying "exceptions confirm the rule..." :D and Soozie, I understand that this girl is a SDM alumna as well, the similarities continue...</p>
<p>Oh, then I likely know her if you want to tell me off forum or whatever. Might her name start with S? Just guessing who it could be but I am not up on people's admissions' outcomes. I can think of someone who would be in the running at either school you mentioned but also was very interested in some top BA schools. I am making total guess but if by chance it is her, she and my D have been together for years and years in shows and I just saw her over the summer and shared dinner with her and her mom in NYC as they went to see a show my D was in the city last summer. Of course, you could mean someone else but just going with my gut. We talked about her college list over dinner and those two were some of the only BFAs she was interested in, along with well known BA schools. Again, I am guessing as I have no knowledge of any results.</p>
<p>Nope, you got it! :D; may be your D can check in with her.</p>
<p>I am not at all surprised. I know her quite well and she is very talented. It will be interesting if she opts to do a BFA. She, along with some other top talent from my D's theater camp, have opted to shoot for some top BA schools and some of these kids who did or could have gotten into top BFA schools, chose schools like Yale, Brown and Northwestern (though many others go onto the top BFA in MT programs). I don't know what S. plans to do. Kudos to her. She and my D spent eight summers together. I recall when my D was 10 and S. was probably 9 (my D is not much older than this other girl but right now is three years ahead in school as she is two years ahead in school from where she should be chronologically) shared a driver to NYC from camp when I was out of the country because both were called back for a Broadway show. They have the same agent. We spent some time this summer when I saw them in the city. It is just that the girls, as much as they spent time every summer together, were kinda in two different peer groups as my D was always in an older group (older than her self). However, my D and S were in many cabaret casts together. I'll have to tell my D. Again, not surprised but very happy for S.</p>
<p>Those of you who are awaiting news from Tisch, they, indeed, have changed things up a bit this year and, in addition to already sending out their Saturday in the Square event invitations early (for April 5), they have also notified the applicants who are being awarded all-University scholarships, and invited them to a special event which is just for them. Studio letters have not gone out so I'm guessing that the friend of Susan and mtgrlsmom may have indicated they wanted only CAP21. Congratulations to her! As others have said, those of you who haven't heard, and who haven't received an invitation, don't despair! There are many more acceptances coming around April 1 than those who are receiving news this week. Best of luck to all of you who are still waiting.</p>
<p>Yes, it seems to be happening a week earlier this year (the invitations). And yes, if someone says, "I got into CAP21", the only way to claim that would be to have said you would only accept CAP21 because studio assignments do not come with the invitations, nor with the acceptances. I am not in touch with the person that MTgrlsmom spoke about but simply know her quite well. My D, being a junior in college, is not really in touch much with kids still in high school. When my D got a Trustee Scholarship, there was no special gathering just for that. However, there WAS a special gathering/luncheon for those selected to be Tisch Scholars (this is not the scholarship but is separate but she happened to get both). About 15-18 applicants for ALL of Tisch (not just Drama) get chosen as Tisch Scholars. The reception for Tisch Scholars, at least in HER year, was held on the same day as Saturday in the Square (at lunchtime) and the letter about that invitation and selection was separate from the invitation for Saturday in the Square.</p>
<p>Come to think of it, the invitations for Sat. in the Square are not really that early because if they were about the 18th in my D's year, the event itself was April 9 and now the event is April 5 and so it makes sense that the invitations need to go out sooner for the lead time for travel plans.</p>