NYU applications

[wannabe2]

Hi all-I submitted my application and was just reviewing some things. It's too late to fret about, but the silent film piece;it stipulates all exterior settings. I must have overlooked that. Most of it is outdoor but....

 

[Ben]

so who here IS left in the running?

 

[Race_Bannon]

I haven't received an email yet... so I'm still in.

 

[Oseasapplicant]

Ditto - no email so I guess I am still in...

 

[Brendan Beachman]

I haven't been checking this forum as religiously as I usually do so i was pretty surprised and freaked out that so many people got emails today. I haven't received an email from nyu...is that a good sign?? Do they send out rejections next week too, or do u think that they sent them all out? this is gonna keep me up at night this weekend

 

[duders]

I've been trying to make sense of the emails that people have been receiving.

I think they make sense when considering the NYU process. There are several rounds to finally getting an interview.

1.After the deadline, they gather all of the applications and send them off to a committee that is not the faculty. I'm not sure who these people are. They make a first cut and whittle down the hundreds (if not thousands) to a few hundred.

2. This next few hundred is sent back to NYU where they are divided amongst the faculty. Each person chooses a few applicants from their pool that they would like to interview. So at the end of this stage, there are about 100 people.

3. They interview all 100 or so people.

4. After the interviews they select about 40 of them for the class, plus a waitlist. Some people don't accept the offer, and the space goes to a waitlist person. At the end of the day, i think they want a class in the mid 30's or so.

So my assumption, which could be entirely incorrect is that, those people that got interviews were the people that didn't make it past round 1.

The people that have not heard back yet are in round 2 now. Maybe will get an interview, maybe not. Either way, no news is good news at this point.

Like I said, I could be completely wrong, but I think that's what's going on.

 

[Brendan Beachman]

Thanks for the info duders. Did you have the same experience when you were accepted? When and how did they notify you for an interview?

 

[EMDelMar]

This was taken from the UT Austin site, but I think it does a good job of communicating what the Tisch Admissions committee was probably considering.

http://rtf.utexas.edu/graduate...e_mfa_admission.html

Props to UT Austin. All of the schools should have a page like this.

 

[Dr.RubyDoomsday]

In most top level grad programs, if you are not over a 3.0 UGPA, you are in a bit of a jam. What you would want to do is take some non-degree courses at a local college (the highest ranked you can get in to) and get all A's, show the adcom that you are a different person scholastically now than you were then.

Most people assume a bad UGPA is a killer, but if you take steps to mitigate it, you will more than likely give yourself a leg up over your competition at least where grades are concerned.

While undergraduate grades do not seem to matter to graduate film programs as much as say when applying to Law School or Med School, why give an adcom any reasons to ding you?

Let's hope for no more cuts from NYU, my nerves are shot as it is with all the craziness on Friday.

 

[color soup]

I second that. There's only so many happy thoughts you can think before your face starts to melt.

 

[Luke joseph]

My nerves need a break. I check my email, and all I see is "admissions-arts" and my heart exploded. Then I realized it was just a reminder from Columbia about financial aid. The descent into madness is long and tragic.

 

[Dr.RubyDoomsday]

Seriously, if I had any balls I would call and ask what last Friday was all about, or walk down there (because, tragically, I walk past Tisch Hall at least once a week...it's toying with my emotions)

 

[Luke joseph]

Dr.

Yeah, me too. I literally live within walking distance. At this point, I'm almost positive that it was the first of a couple rounds of rejections.

 

[Race_Bannon]

I'm with you Luke. When I saw that email, I think I had a minor heart attack myself...

Aside from last week's rejection emails, has anyone heard anything yet?

 

[Brendan Beachman]

I haven't heard anything yet, but I'm checking my email compulsively every ten minutes. You think there's still more rejections to go out before they notify people for interviews?

 

[Dr.RubyDoomsday]

Not sure, I would like to hope there aren't any more, but I think if those rejections were all of them, calls would be going out today.

Anyone interviewed last year know what time of day they called?

The only thing that has me clinging to hope is that last year they called for interviews the second/third week of February and it would seem that the facluty would be given more than a week to review the second round candidates. Unless those rejections from Friday were decided earlier...but then why would they hold on to them...welcome to the circle in which my mind spins. My one friend refers to me as The Kremlinologist.

 

[color soup]

In last year's posts some people started to hear back today. But it seems like theyre going about the process a little differently. I would love to think that they sent out one big wave of emails and cleared out anybody who they weren't calling for interviews, but something tells me that isn't so...
God bless us, everyone.

 

[Oseasapplicant]

I've received nothing as yet from NYU. Half expected to wake to an email this morning - but nothing there!. Unfortunately, I don't think we can rely on the past posts as a means of indicating when we hear back. It clearly seems to be different this year. Good luck everyone, keep posting.

 

[Brendan Beachman]

Yeah it does seem to be different this year. I'm hoping that they aren't going to send out more rejections, but I have a feeling that they might be narrowing it down some more this week and we'll be hearing from them next monday...

 

[Dr.RubyDoomsday]

Doubtful as next Monday is a Holiday. I know NYU well, they do not send out anything on holidays.

 

[copenhagengirl]

Jubiiiiiii (danish expression of joy)
I got an interview!
I was notified in an email - anyone else?

Good luck to you all...