<p>Hey Nocca, I was just wondering. In regards to Tisch film, would Early Decision help me out more than regular. Also for the 75% of kids that do not get in, do you know why they usually don't. Thanks.</p>
<p>Typically, ED applicants have a better chance at admissions, but it's a more self-selecting pool. Tisch won't let you know why you didn't get in, whether it was your portfolio or academics, or what was wrong with either one. So many apply and so many would want to know why they received letters of rejection, that they just have a policy of not letting people know, as with most schools.</p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
<p>Sincere apologies for asking you to break a old habit lol, however I do want to thank you for your reply!! It was probably one of the most optomistic one yet lol. Thanks again!</p>
<p>NOCCA, do you happen to remember if there was anything scheduled for the Sunday during your welcome week? (A non-NYU friend and I are trying to plan a day to see a broadway show in the last week of August)</p>
<p>Do you mean the first Sunday, or the last? If you mean the first, no, only move-in and getting my ID, but nothing mandatory. If that last Sunday, again, nothing mandatory. Welcome Week consists of a bunch of welcome events (obviously) and there's orientation for schools like Tisch and GSP that don't have it during the summer. But I don't remember anything being mandatory during Welcome Week unless specifically specified...check your schedule (you should have gotten one in the mail) to make sure that this is the case for this year.</p>
<p>NOCCA, are you sure that the schedule for welcome week is already out? My kid hasn't gotten one yet, but I kinda hadn't expected her to, as it's a (sort of!) long way off ....:)
She did get her NYU ID last week, however, when we came to New York for the day and noodled around campus. She was able to walk right in, fill out the form, have her photo taken and get her ID in less than five minutes. I am sure it won't be that quick come late August .... :)</p>
<p>Was there summer reading for Tisch students?</p>
<p>The drama students had two books to read.</p>
<p>I remember getting a book of events during Welcome Week in the mail. I can't remember if it was in June or August, but it definitely wasn't July, since I wasn't home for that month. But maybe they do different things every year. I do know that none of those events were mandatory (seeing the NYU Show is highly encouraged to the point of being "mandatory" and should definitely be seen, but it's not like attendance is taken...that was the closest thing that I could think of that was mandatory) but it's just a book of suggested events to get affiliated with NYU and the city and I would suggest going to maybe one every day, although definitely not required.</p>
<p>Yes the lines to get the NYUCard on Welcome Day were so long! It's good that she got it sooner. I would have if I were here during the summer before freshman year, but I hadn't even visited NYU before coming here haha.</p>
<p>Hey! I was just wondering how you make your schedule for Tisch. I called and they said I have to wait until orientation in august until I can register and pick classes, however I have spoken to people in NYU who have said that they already picked their classes. Even from reading some of the previous posts I see that people have registered their classes. Since I got off the waitlist and they just got my deposit is it possible that they just haven't sent me the forms or is it true that you make your schedule in august at orientation?</p>
<p>Also...I'm really confused how you know which classes you have to take besides your "Tisch" classes. (sorry if that didn't make sense) haha I literally was torn between two schools and just decided so I'm so confused and I feel so lost in the game. Not to mention I get differnet info each time I call in! So excited though!</p>
<p>I made my schedule way before August...I did it in like late May/early June. Once you have access to your Albert account (which you should), you can register from there. Things may be different this year, but I probs not.</p>
<p>DM, what major are you in Tisch? The classes really depend on your major. For instance, I know that Film and Television students have slightly more liberal arts requirements than Drama students. But overall in Tisch BFAs (notably excluding Tisch's only BA degree, Cinema Studies), you will have an average of like 8-10 liberal arts requirements, including two semesters of Writing the Essay freshman year (drama students only have to take 6 courses in the liberal arts but they also have to take 5 Theatre Studies courses, which are theatre related but definitely academic). Most of your classes will be requirements for your major (with the exception of Cinema Studies, which gives you more options because it's a BA and not a BFA program). If you go on the Tisch website, you should be able to find out liberal arts/Tisch requirements for your major; if you still can't find it, tell me your major and I'll find it for you on the website.</p>
<p>My son, R, will be a Drama major at Tisch this fall. I remember reading somewhere that the Welcome Week schedule will be mailed in early August. Also, online registration for classes begins tomorrow, June 18 at noon. We received an email a few weeks ago with the handbook needed for registration. It contained all the information needed to register for Fall classes as well as info on what to register for in the Spring.</p>
<p>As far as I know, the freshmen drama students will be able to go online tomorrow at noon (June 18) and register for their classes. They were sent an email with links to the various Tisch majors handbooks/registration info, which included a worksheet and a list of classes they have to take and ones from which they can choose, with corresponding section numbers, times, etc. Freshmen drama students have studio three days a week (so that means they only have to fill in their studio number, etc. for Tuesday, Thursday and Fridays) and they have to take the freshmen writing course (split into mandatory lectures and "recitations" -- smaller classes -- which meet every Monday and Weds.) and then they can choose between Intro to Theatre Studies or Intro to Theatre Production, and which section/time and so on.</p>
<p>So I just read through this entire thread, and it was extremely helpful :)
I visited the campus yesterday and I fell in love... I am absolutely applying Early Decision. I am applying to Tisch, with my first choice studio being CAP21. I did the Intensive for highschoolers this past winter and I loved it. After reading this thread, I think my second choice will be Strasberg (I know a girl that just finished her freshman year) and possibly Adler as my third. I took the SATs for my first time in May, and the score is relatively low, but I took them again last week (scores go up next week I believe). I am much stronger in reading/writing than I am in math, so if I need to, I might get tutored over the summer before taking the SATs for a third time in October.</p>
<p>Hey, I was just wondering if Tisch kids are exempted from MAP requirements because I know this girl whose in Film and she tells me that science classes and all that stuff aren't required.</p>
<p>Thanks so much! I am in photography and imaging. I came across a pamphlet online with all the course requirements and I was just made aware that tomorrow at noon we will be able to register for classes. I realize that my actual classes through Tisch I have no say in, I just wish we had some more academic advise for which liberal arts classes to take. For example, I would like to take a journalism class so would that fall under literature or language requirement? It's questions like these that I am not sure who to ask, but I am going to keep on calling the different departments. Thanks again!</p>
<p>Arianna:
That's great that you're taking your SATs seriously! A lot of people think that Tisch is all about the audition, but it's really not: 50% of your acceptance is based upon academics, and Tisch kids are really well rounded students, because NYU is among the hardest BFA programs to get into academically, and it's also one with significant liberal arts requirements (though still small compared to a BA). Score the best you can! It could make the difference between you and another person they're equally considering based upon the audition. And Strasberg is a good choice for those considering CAP 21 because of its strong musical theatre element for an acting studio (Adler is also a good choice as well in this regard), but I personally didn't get on at Strasberg for various reasons. But half of my class this year at Stras wanted to be at CAP and by the end the vast majority (everyone, actually) were really happy that they were placed into Strasberg. I would also look into the Experimental Theatre Wing, which has dance and movement ingrained into their acting training; if I were auditioning again for the first time, I would have chosen ETW instead of Stras for my second choice, and most likely would have stayed. It's an amazing studio. But yeah, haha. Make sure you read thoroughly the acting techniques that each studio fosters, and make sure that it's for you, because that's the most important part...I went into auditioning only wanting CAP and not knowing about any of the other studios, and I didn't feel quite as prepared when they were asking me about my 2nd and 3rd choice studios. Good luck!</p>
<p>Bimachris:
Tisch BFA students (exception of BA Cinema Studies) do not have to take MAP requirements. There are science requirements for all the Tisch majors, but it doesn't have to be Natural Science I and II or something like that (those are MAP courses) but rather subjects such as Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, etc. For example, my International Politics of the Middle East class would have counted as one of my science courses had I stayed in the course (I switched to an Arab Lit class instead). I know this because I looked at my transcript on Albert. </p>
<p>DM290:
When push comes to shove, you can check your Albert transcript on NYUHome to determine which class counts for which requirement. If I HAD to guess, I would actually think that journalism courses counts as science requirements (I remember vaguely reading something like that somewhere about a year ago because I was at one time considering double majoring with journalism). But yeah, you can register for the class and then see what they put it under...be wary, sometimes advisors really suck and even though I got luckier and had an advisor that did know a lot of things, what I'm trying to do is so different and stuff that I had to really research a lot on my own, and that's why I know so much about NYU in general and not just Tisch. Good luck!
And P.S., literature and language requirements would go under the Humanities distribution.</p>
<p>^ Can students request to change to another advisor?</p>
<p>Thanks for the response!</p>
<p>Um, it really depends, but I guess you could request it if yours isn't working out. They all pretty much know the exact information, however haha.</p>
<p>thanks so much! now all i'm having trouble with is registering, even though it seems really easy.</p>