seasickmermaid

Hey, thanks for letting me know! I have gotten zero transparency throughout this process so I appreciate you passing the info you got along!

So I have a similar issue. I was waitlisted at NYU and accepted at The New School and my deadline to accept my place at The New School was May 3rd. Since NYU was my top choice, I emailed with an admissions officer to find out whether I would hear back about the waitlist before May 3rd and he said the deadline for the original admitted people to get back to them was April 15th, so I should hear back between then and May 3rd. About a week before the deadline I emailed again to check in and he said that they had given an extension and the initial accepted students were now getting back to them on May 1st so hopefully they would have more info on May 2nd. May 2nd rolled around and still nada. I even tried calling and they didn't have any info for me. I just sent another follow-up email so I'll let you know if I get any more info from that. I ended up accepting my place at the New School but I still think I would forgo my deposit and switch to NYU if I got in.

Well, I don't know how helpful this is because I've only been to Philadelphia a couple of times, but it's a really cool city and seems to have a lot of art in general as well as a decent theatre scene. I would dampen your expectations a little in terms of proximity to New York just because the people I know who live there don't make the trip to the city very often. Then again, that is just my experience and yours could be totally different! Anyway, congrats on getting into both schools and good luck with your decision!

Alright ya'll, got rejected from BU today so I've finally heard from all the schools I applied to! I am waitlisted at NYU, so if anyone is in there and decides not to go, I would suuuuuper appreciate you letting me know! Good vibes to all!

@MischiefNotManaged that is so horrible and I am so sorry! I would take it as a sign that they are definitely not the right school for you if they're going to pull that shit. That makes me so angry but I also feel glad there's no chance I end up going there. Anyways, there's a better place out there for you, I'm sure of it!

That letter kind of tricked me tbh. Last year when I got such a nice letter I thought for sure I should apply again even though Hunter was not one of my top choices because she seemed so genuinely enthusiastic. Now that I've gotten pretty much the exact same letter this year, I feel like they just used that to get me to apply again and pay them more money. Anyway, I just want to say for first-time appliers, apply to schools you genuinely want to go to, don't just do it because you feel like you're likely to get in from a nice-sounding rejection letter.

Just got rejections from Columbia and Hunter. At least that's closure!

Oh no, I'm so sorry! Still nothing for me from them-- what is going on over there?!

I haven't heard anything either, but what I find weird about this is that no one on here has even gotten an interview request? Their deadline was like a month later than all the other schools so I'm thinking maybe they actually haven't started doing interviews yet? It just seems unlikely that no one on here would even get an interview. Unless they don't do interviews? Idk it's all very anxiety-inducing I agree.

Has anyone here gotten interviews at BU or Hunter?

Waitlisted at NYU! They say it's not very long so I've got my fingers crossed! On another note, I got into The New School, but they don't seem to be giving me any aid, only loans. I have basically no money so I was surprised at this and am now terrified about having to pay over 200K overall to go there. Has anyone else experienced this struggle or does anyone have any advice on financing grad school or convincing schools to give you financial aid? I am still waiting to hear from BU, which would be amazing because they cover tuition but obviously because of that they are going to be more competitive and idk I'm just freaking out about money guys! Anyways, fuck capitalism and thanks for listening ?

@broccolini That was beautiful, thank you ❤️

They told me they would let me know around the end of March!

Thanks for letting us know! I appreciate the intel even if it's not good news-- I'd rather just know!

Congrats CMU bound people! I'm wondering if anyone has heard from Columbia? Last year I got an interview request from them on March 1st so I was expecting them to be on a similar timeline this year.