TheEvilMayor

NYU is my only option this year, and while it's a phenomenal opportunity, I'm not sure I really want to be taking out $60,000 in loans for next year. Tough choice for me.

I'm still waiting to hear from Columbia and Cornell. If I don't get in to either of those, which is probably likely, I'm going to have a hard time not going to NYU, even though I know it's going to cost an arm and a leg. They told me that I wouldn't see financial aid stuff for a few weeks though.

I just got accepted to NYU's MM in film scoring program. I'm more than happy to tell you about my experience in applying and what my portfolio and profile was like. First off, I've only been composing for 3.5 years in the course of my undergraduate study - so I don't have a ton of experience. However, I have done a lot of writing, and my submitted scores included an orchestral score that I wrote (and had performed by my university's orchestra), a 12 minute saxophone quartet, a 10 minute string quartet, and a short piano piece (and very basic at that). I did also submit a movie trailer with original music, but I didn't send in the score for it (mostly because I didn't want to take the time or have the time to notate it). I most certainly didn't have a recommendation from anyone famous. My undergraduate university is very small, with less than 3,000 undergrads in total. The music department has less than a hundred majors. My music isn't particularly difficult, and I don't have any real ethnic background to draw from. I think what they're looking for isn't really that you can write with complexity or compose difficult pieces. Honestly, I've never found either of those things to be terribly difficult to as a composer. I think they're more focused on whether or not your music is going to translate well to the screen, or whatever media you'll be composing for. Here's a link to my soundcloud if you'd like to hear some of my stuff. https://soundcloud.com/theevilmayor/sets/portfolio On a side note, I was wondering if anyone knows much about the program. It certainly has a reputation for being good, but I don't know if it's worth the ridiculous tuition they're probably going to charge me. Does anyone happen to know how many students they add to the program each year?