@Notmath1 Chris is the head of the Department of Drama. It is one of the departments in Tisch under the umbrella of the Institute of Performing Arts. There are 2000 applications for the 7 primary studios in the Department of Drama that incoming students can attend. The MT studio is New Studio. The other drama studios are Atlantic, Stella Adler, Meisner, Playwrights Horizon (also directing), Production and Design and Lee Strasberg. Anyone attending NYU Tisch as part of the Department of Drama will get a BFA degree in Drama. Students have different focuses depending on what studios they audition for and are assigned to during their time at NYU. There are no separate majors–they are all attending Tisch in the Department of Drama. As upperclassmen, students can choose to switch into other studios and there are 2 studios that are only for upperclassmen.
When one applies to Tisch’s Department of Drama they will choose what they want to audition for, but placement is done by the school. There are different requirements for different artistic reviews. One can have an artistic review in Acting, MT, Directing or Production and Design. Someone auditioning for MT can request that they are only considered for MT. Otherwise they are automatically considered for acting if they are not placed in MT (New Studio.)
So the 400 incoming freshmen students are placed within those 7 studios as incoming freshmen.
Now if you go to the website, you will see that there are other departments under the Instiutue of Performing Arts. In addition to the Department of Drama, one can apply to Dance or Performance Studies. Those are separate departments and are not included in the 2000 who apply to Drama.
In addition to the Institute of Performing Arts, Tisch also has the Kanbar Institute (Film and TV), Clive Davis Music and Cinema Studies.
My post overlaps with uskoolfish. We must have been responding around the same time. We posted a bunch of the same information but hopefully with two different peoples’ post, it might help clarify it.
bisouu, the acceptance rate for Acting at Tisch in the Department of Drama, is higher than it is for MT. Administrators posted here in the past, for example, that about 50% of those 2000 applicants for drama, are auditioning for MT. There are approx. 60 spots available for MT. So, if you are comparing acceptance rates for MT to another school, you’d have to compare apples to apples. To compare for Acting, you’d have to do the same.
@Puma69…I’m not @uskoolfish, but I can answer your question about Experimental Theater Wing. It is indeed one of the Acting studios at Tisch. In fact, my D spent the last three of her semesters in ETW studio (the first five were in CAP21). Her BF and many friends did ETW studio. I think @uskoolfish inadvertently left off Experimental Theater Wing studio. Another tidbit is that ETW is under Tisch and not an external studio as is the case with some studios. NSB is also one of Tisch’s own studios.
There are 8 primary studios you can be admitted to as a freshman in Tisch Drama. However, each of those 8 studios offers advanced training (junior/senior years) but there are two more studios one can be in for advanced training and they are: Stonestreet Screen Acting Workshop and The Classical Studio.
I was just trying to help as I knew about ETW studio as my D trained in that studio.
Another point of clarification- I imagine that a large number of the 2000 students auditioning are open to “all” studios, not MT only, or drama only. There were several studios that interested my kid, and she wanted to leave herself open to more than one type of acceptance (she applied the same logic at other schools like CMU). But in reality- though more than one was a possibility, she was not equally interested in all 8. Also- while the odds of getting into one of the 7 drama studios is better than other schools, the odds of getting into any particular one are just as low as MT- if not lower since some studios (including ETW if I am not mistaken) are significantly smaller- And you can’t designate interest a single drama studio. (As you can for MT). There were 2 drama studios D liked, and MT. She ended up with her top choice placement, which helped solidify her final decision. Kids who have not had specific acting training might not be familiar with the differences between say Meisner, Adler, and Strasbourg - but for my kid that made a difference, and since she wanted specific things, her odds of getting accepted to a specific spot were just as small as they were at her other BFAs
Just a suggestion – sometimes we go down a rabbit hole of NYU specific posts that tend to hijack more general threads. Perhaps when these back and forth conversations about one school go on for awhile they could migrate to a thread that is particular to that school?
^^No, I don’t think their yield is 50%. That is pure speculation. In fact, I doubt ANY BFA program (particularly well known ones) has such a LOW yield!
As I wrote in an earlier post, in my daughter’s year, everyone who was offered a spot in MT took it and so they had too many freshmen that year. To suggest a yield of 50% is the opposite extreme.
@transmom and @bogeyw, could it be that the 2000 number Chris, the admission director gave, include the Early Decision applicants? That could account for the difference in the numbers that were reported at the parent info session ( assuming it was a RD info session). I am sure Chris could clarify if there were 600 ED apps.
@Notmath1…
In all due respect, I think it doesn’t help to keep posting speculative data. This ends up being misleading and it forces those who have had some affiliation with the school to post correct information and keeps this side bar conversation going.
The 2000 number for Tisch Drama would be for RD and ED combined. I don’t believe that the admissions person would separate out the two.
I agree also with @toowonderful that NYU is not the only school that gets sidebar discussions on these threads.
It would help to keep the posts to information and not speculation.
