<p>So the wait list letter says...do not contact the school, do not have anyone contact admission or make a phone call on the student's behalf. </p>
<p>Do they really mean it? Or are others doing this....and because we are playing by the rules...may put our student at a disadvantage. Does anyone have any experience with the waitlist? And do you know if admission or Tisch decides who gets off the list? and how many kids do they put on the wait list; what percent usually end up getting admitted?
Lots of questions...</p>
<p>I don’t know about the waitlist, but of all of the many schools my D auditioned/applied to NYU easily had the worst financial aid and highest COA. Therefore, I might assume that plenty of families like ours will be declining the offer for more affordable options.</p>
<p>Though we were serial rule-followers last year for all things related to admissions there are PLENTY of people who are not and who get into programs anyway. Tisch is notorious for saying things like, “don’t send artistic recs they won’t be looked at etc.” Maybe they mean it, maybe they don’t but I’m sure plenty of people ignore it. (We didn’t but I know people who did.)</p>
<p>I don’t know anything specific about the waitlist. How extensive it is or if they gross the admissions numbers to net and then only turn to the waitlist after that if necessary. A Tisch waitlist is a fairly recent phenomenon. </p>
<p>In terms of timing, it would be highly unlikely to see any waitlist movement before studio assignments come out and even then, not until sometime after 5/1 when they have a sense of their yield. There is a blog entry on the NYU admissions page that addresses waitlists and it states they won’t consider activating it until after 5/1. It makes for a terribly long wait so be sure you’ve accepted assignment somewhere else if you’re waiting for Tisch. You’ll notice there has been no mention of any waitlist acceptances anywhere in CC yet with respect to Tisch nor NYU in general so the good news is, everyone is still waiting along with you. I wish you the very best of luck! It’s an exciting and stressful time.</p>
<p>Thanks Halflokum! Did you your son/daughter get waitlisted last year? you refer to be serial rule-followers…just wondering if they had a waitlist last year? thanks again.</p>
<p>My daughter was not on the waitlist last year but I know that there was one. I don’t know if anyone from the waitlist was ultimately admitted or not. We have a neighbor girl that was waiting and was ultimately not admitted but that is only a data point of one.</p>
<p>My serial-rule following (advice since it was my daughter who applied not me) would have been about things like: if they say don’t send an artistic rec, don’t. If they didn’t ask for a resume, don’t send one. If they said don’t include a YouTube link because we won’t watch it, she didn’t. That sort of thing. But I’ve read posts from other parents/students that did all of the above even though told not to. Now they could have just been thrown into the trash when received on the other end one would never know. I feared that it would peg us as people that couldn’t read directions so we followed them to the letter. BUT… I’m not so sure if she were on a waitlist and really wanting to go somewhere that I wouldn’t have broken my own rule and said, try anything. Not advising it one way or the other just saying that my guess is, people will.</p>
<p>No need for her guidance counselor to follow those rules. They’re used to calling up to get more info on waitlists, and adcoms are used to talking to them. Ask your D’s GC to give a call (maybe not yet though-- once studio placements are announced there might be more clarity.)</p>
<p>^^^yes very true and good idea. Might be a hard week to get through to NYU since the decisions just came out and the studio placements have not yet. There are also an awful lot of high schools are on spring break now so the counseling staff probably isn’t around to help out anyway but certainly that’s a good plan worth pursuing.</p>
<p>So I’m actually a Tisch grad and while I wasn’t on the wait list, I knew people who were. In all honesty I don’t think it will help to send anything extra in. Knowing how Tisch works nothing you could send in would reach anyone of importance, nor would calling. Having a GC call won’t hurt, but unless they know someone it probably won’t help much. If your child’s on the wait list then they must meet whatever academic requirements that admissions has, and ultimately admission and studio placement always comes down to the Drama department. The good news is some people from the wait list do get in, I know 2 who did and I’m sure there were more. If you do get in its a great education. It is very expensive, but a wonderful experience and for me totally worth paying off loans for the rest of my life. Good luck.</p>
<p>Does anyone know when you are notified of your studio for Tisch. </p>
<p>Do they tell you your studio when you find out your off the wait-list? My son is 2 years off from applying to schools, but I’ve been trying to make a note of the academic requirements needed for this school and the studio assignment process.</p>
<p>Notifications came out the evening of Friday 4/13 last year. Possibly today Friday 4/12 if there is anything to repeating previous year’s patterns (and there may not be but I’d confess that there would be plenty of email checking going on in our house).</p>
<p>@shacherry, the NYU admissions blog says that there would be no waitlist review until sometime after 5/1 so as of now, waitlisted candidates would be in the dark regarding studio assignments like everyone else. As far as I understand it the waitlist letters do not specify what studio people are waiting for but I would assume that anyone that is notified of an acceptance after 5/1 would have an indication of what studio they were being offered placement in since actual open spots would be known after the 5/1 commitment deadline.</p>