Any replies from the university to wait listers yet?

Just got an email from Virginia, Accepted for Film (Direction). Hope to see the selected guys at campus soon.

@itsmazhar, hang on bro, hopefully you would have good news too soon.

I got in too ))

@indyasg : Congrats to you too ) .BTW wats the last date to deposit the tuition fee of $950. It just says the due date but has not mentioned the due date.

Sorry i just saw the form. got it

Hey congratulations! I got in too.
Have you guys heard anything about financial aid?

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@Vagabond & @itsmazhar Congratulations , feels nice to see that our wait is finally over

No not heard about financial aid yet.

Btw i have been in singapore over an year now, so if you guys need any information or help please feel free to ask

Thnks you guys ) .. Congratulations to you too vagabond
@vagabond : yep me too didn't hear anything about the financial aid.
@indyasg: have sent a PM.

I'm really happy to have gotten in, but now I'm starting to get worried about how I'm going to pay for it. Do you guys have any idea yet how you are going to finance your degree?

Well , can you confirm if this is the right link for fee ?

http://www.nyu.edu/bursar/tuit...dtischsingapore.html

Is this for single acamedic year 2011-2012?

Yeah, it's for 2011-2012 (although the e-mail said the board would meet in June to decide the new tuition fee), but it's per semester.
So it will be around $22,000 tuition per semester plus housing, living costs and additional expenses for your film...
I heard that in your third year you don't have to pay that much tuition, does anyone know whether this is true? Or is this just for Tisch NYU?
Sorry to ask all these things, but NYU sure is pricey...:P

Hi Guys congrats on getting in! Yeah I'm still figuring out the financials at the moment but yeah tis really expensive, tuition alone will be like $45 for one year not including house etc. http://www.tischasia.nyu.edu.s...schasia_tuition.html for housing/living expenses check out the snapshot guide http://issuu.com/tischsp/docs/...hasiastudentsnapshot

I'm looking for scholarships and possibly a loan.

Anyone out there applying this year? I have an interview tomorrow and would like to hear from other people interviewing.

I just interviewed via Skype last night at mid-night. I thought I did okay - I was kind and professional - but I wasn't expecting some of the questions. I was asked to give three images of pain, and I did alright. Then asked to tell a story, I did alright on that - I got them to laugh. But the one that threw me off what creating a story from the black and white photo. I think it was a combination of nerves and sleep deprivation - I managed to get through it, but I don't really feel like it was a 'great' story. Maybe I'm being over analytical - but I feel like a blew it, even though it went okay. Has anyone else done the interview yet? How did yours go? How much of a weeding out factor is the final interview?

What I can say depending on my last year's experience, just be natural. They know that you are excited.
I'm not a native English speaker and last year during the interview I got stuck a few times, couldnt remember the right words, but they were quite positive and patient.
So mine must have gone good (I was thinking I sucked) that I got accepted with 20k scholarship.
Questions were similar; describe 3 images of love, making up a story from a b&w photo and describe a scene in which you love the acting.
It wasnt like a standart interview it was much more like a quiz. So be cool and dont panic

That helps a lot. I've been kind of a nervous wreck all day about it. Thank you for that advice. It takes a load off knowing I don't have to be perfect

Hey guys, I had my interview last night at 7pm. I was soooooo nervous. I feel like it went ok. The telling a story part was the hardest. I blanked out and started telling a story that was so bad I wanted to stop talking. But then I had lots of fun painting pictures of concepts/people. I didn't get to the B&W picture but I think I might have spoken a little too much in every question. I was there for 30 minutes exactly. They were nice and laughed a couple of times. Reading your posts right before going in definitely helped, thank you so much. I hope we get in Jennifer!! I am very excited.

Barbarella, How is it? Is it what you expected? What's been the hardest thing to adapt to?

It's been a long night and I'm staying up late working on stuff for an upcoming shoot. As a break from work, and so I don't mentally breakdown and cry in my room, I figured I'd pop my head in here and see wtf is going on with the new registration and such. It's funny thinking that I was once in ya'lls shoes...now I'm stressing over other things. But anyways, enough rambling and to my point...

This place is ****ing amazing...I'm stressed as all hell but I'm loving it here. In many ways, although theoretically its the same as NY, the program is actually more difficult for reasons I will let you guys discover on your own, cause I'm a douche like that. Is this a bad thing? No. I think in the end it will make you a much more determined, hard-working, and better filmmaker. Singapore is an interesting country, but the fact that you can fly, take a ferry, or catch a ride to many of the surrounding countries for cheap is cool as hell. You can visit Malaysia or Indonesia over the weekend...that is...if you the find time. haha!

To all those that got accepted into the program and are coming...Congratulations! I will make sure to use you and torture you in my directing exercises next year. And to those that are on the fence I have this to say. This place is amazing, the professors are great and really care about your progress. The atmosphere is casual and friendly and close. The 2nd and 3rd years are very helpful and, even with their own busy schedules, will help you out if you have any questions about things. Being the theoretical "underdogs" or "guinea pigs", as some people have put it, has created a very close knit community here and we all want to help each other make great films. And we do make great films.

And that is all I have to say about that... Now back to work...YAY!

Well I couldnt enroll to Tisch Asia because I had to have full scholarship, it was impossible for me to pay the rest.
Anyway, I hope your luck will be better than mine :-)

Those who had the storytelling task and the black and white picture what field did you apply to? And what form of the interview did you take?

I had a phone interview for Dramatic Writing and honestly I think they asked me what my favorite shows were and why I felt I should go to grad school. The rest was them describing the program to me, which sounded amazing.

Haha, entunz - if I see you in Singapore we'll have to give each other a high five! It was not what I expected at all. I didn't know anyone that had applied to NYU's grad program before - but I had known people that graduated from other film grad programs like UT Austin and Columbia - and they didn't have the NYU interview experience. I think it's good though, it was more like a job interview; which, just re-affirmed that if I do get in, I(we) will be in really good hands.

The hardest part for me was creating a story from the picture. I interviewed at mid-night, so I was a wee bit tired. The creative juices weren't flowing as well as I would have liked.

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