NYU Dramatic Writing 2010

[useyourheadset]

has anyone's application page change? My just says "Submitted."

boo.

 

[Generallyspeaking22]

same...

 

[WillieGreen]

Originally posted by useyourheadset:
has anyone's application page change? My just says "Submitted."

boo.

Mine says, "LOL you're checking again?"

 

[LobsterMagnet]

Hi everyone,

I just stumbled across this forum recently and I was so relieved to hear back from other people trying to apply to the Dramatic Writing Program. I'm so glad to hear that no one's gotten any phone interviews yet because I was so scared when I didn't get one that I'd already been declined from the program.

When I spoke to the representative back in July he told me they usually do it in February, but I guess this time they decided against it. I was tempted to try and call them myself to see what was up but i'm happy to hear that some of have already tried bugging them and have gotten the "soon" response.

Ugh I don't know about the rest of you, but am I the only one frustrated by the prospect of having to jump through all these application hoops just to earn the right to get $80,000 in dept for tuition?

I don't know I'm just frustrated in general. I'm 23...soon I'll be 24 and it'll be the two year anniversary since I graduated from my college and I'm no closer to starting a real paying career then I was when I graduated. Been doing nothing but unpaid internships, but all they have been is nothing but a waste of time since I haven't gotten any practical skills from them. Only contacts that no one will call and recommendations that may not even earn me the right to pay get $80,000 of tuition dept.

How about the rest of you? Where are you in your great road maps of life? Any interesting intern war stories? God knows I have my fair share like the time I got paid 50 dollars to accuse Mario Lopez of Rape in an idiotic attempt to try and promote the Dustin Diamond Biography.

 

[WillieGreen]

Any interesting intern war stories? God knows I have my fair share like the time I got paid 50 dollars to accuse Mario Lopez of Rape in an idiotic attempt to try and promote the Dustin Diamond Biography.

I don't falsely accuse people of rape for anything less than $75 and a hot meal.

 

[Generallyspeaking22]

That's usually more than what you get when you rightly accuse someone of rape.

Those promotors sound like the WORST!

 

[LobsterMagnet]

Yeah it was a pretty sleazy place. Good word of advice, if your at a company and it changes it's name 3 times that's usually a good sign to get the hell out of there. Basically I was interning for a talent agent who represents such luminary stars as Michael Winslow (The sound effects guy from police academy movies) and Dustin Diamond AKA screech from Saved by the Bell.

Basically Dustin Diamond had a tell all memoir put out recently and the agent wanted me to try and promote it by harassing mario lopez during a children's book signing. Because in the memoir Dustin says mario was accused of rape but NBC hushed things up. So in order to promote it he wanted to have me filmed while trying to get him to sign the book.

Ugh it was such a bad idea. One of my many failed internships. Any of you have some fun stories to share?

 

[BWSwanson]

Hello all -

Been lurking the past few days.

I actually had a phone interview a few days ago with NYU (dramatic writing, so yes I'm in the right forum )

They called on Monday, and not recognizing the #, I didn't answer (thankfully, I think). Set up a time for them to call on Tuesday evening (via email), which gave me a little time to prepare (or maybe it was to get nervous ).

I had a phone interview with Sabrina Dhawan, which went fine - Don't feel like I knocked it out of the park, but I also don't think I hurt myself... It lasted about 25 minutes, IIRC.

Like I've read about interviews in past years, the interviewer had not read my application.

Questions were about why I wanted to go to NYU, what my submitted script was about, what I thought about my submitted script and what about it made me think I needed to go to grad. school to improve my writing (what could I have done better, basically, that could be learned in grad. school) , what kinds of movies I wanted to write, why I wanted to write, whether I wanted to be a writer only or on the writer/director track, what I've been doing for the past few years of my life, my history as a writer, and if I had any questions for her (for some reason, I hadn't prepared for That question, stupid me)...

That was the gist of it...

And then a few questions that had to do with answers that I'd given.

She said that I'd find out 'by the end of March.'

So in terms of thinking about preparing for the interview, I think maybe y'all (yea, I'm from Texas, deal ) should place more importance on thinking about how you would describe your screenplay (since if you're preparing for other interviews, you've probably thought about answering most of the other questions) in a succinct, intriguing way while also being able to talk about its themes etc.

By way of contextualizing, I applied to 5 schools (NYU, AFI, USC, Chapman, and U.T.'s Michener's Center)...Had an interview with AFI a few weeks ago, and have received rejection letters from USC (email) and U.T(snail mail).

 

[WillieGreen]

So they've started interviewing?

I've already mentally rejected myself.

Even if I got in on a fluke, I'm too entrenched on the west coast now to pack it up and move.

 

[LobsterMagnet]

WHAT THE HECK!!! I thought they said they weren't doing any phone interviews this year LIES!!!! I wonder how far in the process you have to go before they decide to call you.

Ugh I guess I'm screwed since I haven't heard anything.

Do any of you have any other suggestions for other dramatic writing programs?

 

[Five by Five]

It sounds like it has been in the past few years based upon what I read on this forum.

A couple of people appeared and posted that they were told that there were no interviews. However, some people were, in fact, interviewed. I know one poster in particular stated that out of his class very few of his classmates actually had a formal interview.

No one could actually figure out what that meant. On one hand, it would "seem" they were interviewing people who were "on the bubble" since not everyone that got in actually had a formal interview. On the other hand, I think that was the only poster that mentioned that was the case for his class and taking into consideration the amount of people who applied versus the amount of people who actually post here ... there were at least two or three who were interviewed.

That being said, I wish they'd just send me my rejection e-mail and be done with it.

Cheers!

 

[Generallyspeaking22]

Oh boy.

 

[Generallyspeaking22]

Originally posted by LobsterMagnet:
WHAT THE HECK!!! I thought they said they weren't doing any phone interviews this year LIES!!!! I wonder how far in the process you have to go before they decide to call you.

Ugh I guess I'm screwed since I haven't heard anything.

Do any of you have any other suggestions for other dramatic writing programs?

There's a few:

Columbia
UCLA
USC
UT
Northwestern
Chapman

However, it ain't over till it's over.

 

[ds2142a]

Just had a surprise interview a half an hour ago with a professor in the Dramatic Writing program!

 

[Impossible Protagonist]

This is a strange process.

Here's hoping for my Pop Up Interview call.

 

[Generallyspeaking22]

Originally posted by ds2142a:
Just had a surprise interview a half an hour ago with a professor in the Dramatic Writing program!

Thanks for letting us know. Congrats!

IP: Ditto

 

[LobsterMagnet]

Looks like the interview floodgate has opened. For any of the interviewed subjects they give any indication of what date they'll inform people about acceptances?

 

[ds2142a]

I was told that they're making their final decisions by the end of the month.

 

[LobsterMagnet]

Columbia
UCLA
USC
UT
Northwestern
Chapman

Do any of those schools have rolling admissions for their dramatic writing programs or do I have to wait to apply for the 2011 semester? That's one thing that really annoyed me about NYU was the fact that the admissions had such a long turn around.

 

[Generallyspeaking22]

I know Chapman has an April 1st deadline. You'll have to wait till the fall to apply to the rest though...