<p>So, I came home from school today and found this e-mail in my inbox...</p>
<p>"Hello and greetings from NYU Undergraduate Admissions!
Last week we notified all freshman applicants of upcoming deadlines and event dates for our admissions process. Now, we write to you - and only a select group of applicants - again to remind you of our events for accepted students:"</p>
<p>Then it lists some dates of events. Then:</p>
<p>"While your decision packet will not be mailed for another 2 weeks, it might be a good idea for you to start checking into travel plans to visit campus.
We'll be following up with more information for you as soon as our RSVP web site is open for event registration!"</p>
<p>I'm assuming this is a good thing, right? Do you think this means I should be expecting an acceptance in a couple of weeks? It sure sounds like that, but I haven't received anything through normal, non-internet mail, and the way they say that they're sending a "decision packet" instead of an "acceptance" one is kinda weird... But the way the e-mail starts with saying that "only a select group of applicants" are receiving this message is a good sign. I just wanna be extra sure that this is an acceptance before I tell my parents the (hopefully) good news!</p>
<p>I got that email too (for Dramatic Writing) and the “select group of applicants” bit caught my eye… I’m wondering the same thing you are.</p>
<p>It means you will be accepted. Congratulations!</p>
<p>Not that I don’t believe you given your post count/status, but how do you know for sure? I just don’t want to tell people only to receive a rejection letter in two weeks!</p>
<p>Well, now that I reread the letter, I don’t see why they would send out this letter to people who were rejected. It’d be kinda cruel. After all, why would they tell people to make travel arrangements if they’re just going to reject them after they may’ve already spent a couple hundred bucks on plane tickets?</p>
<p>That’s what I thought too. And the “it might be a good idea for you to start checking into travel plans to visit campus” part seems like a hint-hint-nudge-nudge way of basically saying you’re in. But I want to know for sure!</p>
<p>I will give you several ways I know this to be true. </p>
<p>First, I am a parent of a Tisch graduate in Drama. When she was accepted, she first received an invitation to an accepted student event. The invitation came right about now. The acceptance package came around April 1. Her studio notification came the first week of April. </p>
<p>Second, I am a college counselor who advises college applicants, including to BFA programs, and have had students apply every year and I know how it works. The only thing different this year is that it seems they sent out this email rather than (or maybe in addition to?) a snail mail invitation as in years past. </p>
<p>Third, if you read it closely, it seems pretty obvious this was sent to those who are invited to the ACCEPTED student event and will let you know how to RSVP. You can only be invited IF you will be accepted. </p>
<p>Fourth, if you read other posts on CC, such as on the NYU forum or the MT Forum, everyone also is saying this implies you are accepted. </p>
<p>Fifth, I have read elsewhere online that some families who got this email called NYU/Tisch today to ask if this means it is an acceptance, and they said yes, (as has been the case EVERY year I have watched this unfold, including personally, and as an advisor). </p>
<p>I hope you choose to believe me but if you don’t wish to, check it out directly with NYU. </p>
<p>Again, congrats.</p>
<p>Sorry if I came off as rude, I think I’m just a little in shock! I do believe you, thank you so much! All this waiting has been driving me crazy and I just got rejected from Purchase, so you probably saved me from going crazy! Thanks again!</p>
<p>Yeah, thanks from me too, Soozievt! This was my first acceptance, so I just wanted to make extra sure, ha ha.</p>
<p>I don’t blame you guys as this is not how other schools do it. But not only is it how it happened for my kid (I’ll never forget that day…though it was snail mail), I’ve watched it happen every year. This really is the real deal. Go celebrate!</p>
<p>OpGold: I was hoping you would be accepted somewhere great (well, actually, more than one, so we’ll see). You have been very helpful to me. I appreciate your attitude and your sense of humor and I am glad you landed on your feet. Cheers.</p>
<p>in the past, i know invitations only went to “select” students. do you (ie anyone) think select for a tisch applicant is only academic (since general admissions sends this out) or the 50/50 qualifications?</p>
<p>…grasping at straws here!</p>
<p>I think “select” means the students they are hoping to snag and they want to bring them to campus for this event to entice them to matriculate. It is not just for academics. The fact that it comes from the admissions office means nothing. ALL decisions about admission come from the admissions office. There is NO separate admissions for NYU and for Tisch. It is ALL rolled into ONE decision there. NO acceptances or rejections will come directly from Tisch. They will be from the admissions office. Tisch will send notification of your studio placement.</p>
<p>yes, thanks for the response!</p>
<p>Hoping for clarification. Does that email go only to those that are accepted to NYU? This is a little agonizing…</p>
<p>It only goes to those who are invited to the accepted student events and thus “accepted.” It doesn’t go to anyone who will be denied. It is possible to still be accepted even if not invited to the accepted student event.</p>
<p>Thank you. That is helpful. I guess the only thing to really satisfy this angst is the hard-copy acceptance letter.</p>
<p>is this sent to all accepted nyu students? or just those who applied for the tisch school or arts? honestly.</p>
<p>It is sent to selected accepted students to ALL the colleges at NYU. If you visit the NYU forum on CC, you will see many who received this email today who applied to a variety of schools at NYU.</p>
<p>Why would an accepted student NOT get invited to accepted student events?</p>