<p>Ok so here are the NYU essays for applicants. They seem to want rather creative responses. It is to my understanding that we have to do ALL FOUR of them.</p>
<p>If you had the opportunity to spend one day in New York City with a famous New Yorker, who would it be and what would you do? (Your New Yorker can be anyone -past or present, fictional or nonfictional - who is commonly associated with New York City; they do not necessarily have to have been born and raised in New York.)</p>
<p>Write a haiku, limerick, or short (eight lines or less) poem that best represents you.</p>
<p>In the year 2050, a movie is being made about your life. Please tell us the name of your movie and briefly summary the storyline. </p>
<p>Please tell us what led you to select your anticipated academic program and/or NYU school/college, and what interests you most about your intended discipline.</p>
<p>Alright so the fourth one seems straight forward. So does the second one. But the 1st and 3rd ones.... they seem a bit weird. Does the first one want the applicant to show what he/she would do in NYC if (s)he attended NYU? Does the 3rd one want to know what the applicant sees her/himself doing in the future? Plus, how do you not come off as arrogant in the 3rd one? I mean ,a movie is being made about you so you had to have accomplished something. </p>
<p>yeah same.
i’m pretty much dying with these…</p>
<p>but i think you should just show them YOU
whip out your creative writing skills (or what’s left of them after writing all those painful tedious supplements and other essays --)
don’t be afraid to be funny or use humor</p>
<p>I’ve been procrastinating with these forever because they’re like so ingenious I’m afraid of them. lol. I’ve known what the personal statements are since August and still haven’t started them.</p>
<p>As for showing them me right now, there’s: stressed, anxious, tired, and addicted to CC.</p>
<p>Hah-hah! My D actually loved having these “outside the box” questions. But said the same thing you did about the movie (“If there is a movie being made about me…I’d have to have accomplished a huge thing…how can one write that and not sound arrogant?”). She doesn’t like me to read her writing so I never saw her finished work. But I assume she had some fun with it. Just think of all the … “math geeks” (?) that are also answering these questions. Everyone isn’t THAT creative (not to say math geeks aren’t, my daughter is a bit of both, I’m just using that as an example to say that all types of people are answering these, they can’t expect each submission to be noteworthy). I know y’all are trying to do your best. </p>
<p>For the first one…I don’t think it has anything to do with NYU. I mean, look at past characters. Would you place yourself with this character NOW, as if he/she were alive and you were showing them the new New York, or in the past where you are experiencing NY then? Is one of you time traveling, or are you magically changed to that time period? If they’re a living person…do you want to spend your day backstage with them at a Broadway rehearsal or get to audition, or will you ring the bell at the stock exchange, will you go into a recording session with John Lennon (need not be born in NY, remember…just associated with), or will you have a cooking lesson with a famous chef-maybe get kudos for your suggestions in changing a recipe.</p>
<p>The movie? Dream big. What is your major? What will you do with it? If you could reach the stars. Or be funny…after spending 4 years (plus?) at NYU in one major you end up doing something TOTALLY outside of that just because you happened to end up meeting that famous NYer mentioned in the first question and your whole life changed. </p>
<p>??? You can go in ANY direction. Good luck to you all!</p>
<p>You are meant to be creative with the 1st, maybe 2nd, and 3rd ones. I had A LOT of fun writing them. Yea it was scary at first not knowing what to write but after you get an idea, run with it. After my essay and supplements were done, I had an out of body experience and realized the brilliance of what I had just achieved. That must sound a bit narcissistic but that’s how I felt. If I were a stranger reading my supplements and essay I would want to be friends with my self. Hope that made sense….</p>
<p>Be funny, creative, and quirky. Don’t write for the admissions officers, write for your self. In 10 years you can look back on these pieces and see what type of person you were when you wrote them. Make them worthy of remembrance.</p>
<p>On those questions, it says that you may use another page if you need more space. . . do they like if you do that? Or is keeping it to the eight lines in the box they give sufficient?</p>
<p>I would stay in the 8 lines and 500 characters. Adcoms appreciate conciseness. On the the NYU forum on their website, it says that the personal statements are merely meant to be a few sentences.</p>
<p>Just like the punchline of a joke. If you have to explain it…it’s ruined. For someone who reads applications ALL DAY LONG…Brevity is king. Get to the heart of it fast.</p>
<p>I think if additional info was a definite no-no, they wouldn’t provide the option. </p>
<p>I wrote one extra line of background info for my movie supplement. It wasn’t necessarily needed, but I saw little reason to not include it if by any chance they didn’t quite get what I was saying completely.</p>
or use humor</p>