<p>I'm currently living in Pittsburgh, PA and because of Tisch's super expensive program, I'm hoping to go to a cheaper college for two years and then transferring over my junior year. I've heard that they care more about your college transcript, so I'm planning to try tremendously hard in college.</p>
<p>My questions go out to any current member to at Tisch that's willing to help. (PS- I'm looking mostly at the Undergraduate Film and TV Kanbar thing)</p>
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<li><p>How is the financial aid at Tisch?</p></li>
<li><p>What are some good ways to get scholarships for Tisch?</p></li>
<li><p>What is cheaper for Tisch, living in their dorm or buying an apartment/studio?</p></li>
<li><p>For anyone who successfully transferred to this: Where did you go before? What was your GPA in college? What EC's were you into at your first college?</p></li>
<li><p>I also had some questions that would work for anyone who is a regular Freshman Admittance to Tisch....I know they weight academics and portfolio 50/50. I understand the four things you submit in your portfolio are a short film (n my case), a leadership story, a personal story, and a resume. I already have seen the seemingly hundreds of Accepted Tisch Short Films on YouTube. I was wondering if anyone accepted could share their leaderships story, personal story, or resume with me so i know what I'm probably up against.</p></li>
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<p>I transferred into Tisch Film and recently graduated.</p>
<p>First off, financial aid at NYU in general is horrible, so I wouldn’t count on it. Additionally, filmmaking is expensive. They give you $500 for intermediate classes and $800-$1300 for advanced classes, although not everybody gets to make a film in advanced. It’s possible to make a film on this money, but it’s very difficult and most people spend more. I really wish it wasn’t this way, but creating an economically diverse class doesn’t seem to be one of Tisch’s priorities.</p>
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<li><p>It’s definitely cheaper to not live in a dorm. However, it’s not cheaper if you want your own apartment, especially in Manhattan. If have roommates and live in Brooklyn or Queens, you can save a fair amount.</p></li>
<li><p>I went to a school called Bard College for 2 years before I transferred. I had a 3.98 GPA there, which more than made up for my mediocre high school GPA and bad SAT scores, which, by the way, you don’t need if you’ve been in college for more than 2 years. I’d also made a number of short documentaries and held a video editor position at a PR firm.</p></li>
<li><p>Do they want both a leadership and a personal story in the application, now? I only remember it being a personal story. Anyway, my personal story was about my struggle not to make racist assumptions after being beaten up a black guy for no reason.</p></li>
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<p>You definitely have the right idea in mind to transfer. From what I’ve heard, you don’t even get to touch a film camera until sophomore year. At your other school, you can get your gen-ed’s out of the way, and focus more on film at Tisch, which allows you to skip the freshman level production classes. In fact, transfers are actually required to take more upper-level production classes than non-transfers.</p>
<p>The big thing really is money though and it’s definitely not worth going into large amounts of debt for.</p>
<p>Let me put it this way. Dorms range from about $11,000-$15,000 for doubles and $17,000-$20,000 a year for singles. This doesn’t include a meal plan and doesn’t include being there over the summer. However, all the dorms are in Manhattan, within a mile or two of NYU.</p>
<p>Apartments in Manhattan are also very expensive; it’s the most expensive place to live in the US (number 2 is Brooklyn). People I know that live in Manhattan in their own studio or 1br pay anywhere from $2,000-$3,500 a month and often this isn’t very close to the NYU area. I know some people that split 2brs or 3brs and pay somewhere around $1,500 a month, although some are able to get lucky a find stuff around $1,000, which is obviously really tiny.</p>
<p>Living in Brooklyn can save you a fair amount, but it still isn’t cheap. I’d say around $800 a month for sharing a 2br or 3br is pretty common.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that with apartments you have to deal with paying for utilities and you can often run into problems with landlords. Additionally, unless you’re living right near NYU, which is a very expensive area, you’ll need to take the subway everyday, so I’d include $100 a month or so for an unlimited Metro card with what you’re paying for rent. However, the main advantage of living in an apartment is that you can live there during the summer for work or internships and you don’t have to deal with RAs, signing in guests, security, etc.</p>