All New York University operations are closed for winter recess from 4:00 PM Eastern Time on Friday, December 19 through Sunday, January 4. Our office is unavailable by phone or email while we are closed. We will reopen on Monday, January 5.
If you are a 2026 applicant experiencing issues completing your application, please find answers to some frequently asked questions below. If your question is not answered below, please write to us at tisch.gradadmissions@nyu.edu and we will respond to you when we reopen on January 5.
The application closes at 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the date of each application deadline listed, except for Grad Acting which closes at 12:00 PM noon Eastern Time on January 5.
Don't forget to take your time zone into account when planning to submit your application: the application closure is in Eastern Time.
Please contact our Director of Graduate Admissions, Joe Miserendino, at jm7@nyu.edu to request a fee waiver. Please include an explanation of how the $65 application fee poses a significant financial hardship for you, and attach any relevant documentation that could support your waiver request.
If you have sent an application fee waiver request and are waiting to hear back, do not pay the application fee. Paid application fees cannot be refunded.
Grad Acting applicants: please note that while we can waive the $65 application fee, the $50 audition fee is required from all Grad Acting applicants and cannot be waived.
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Yes. Please submit your application with all other required materials by the application deadline, and send your credential evaluation to us as soon as it is ready. Credential evaluations are required from all applicants who earned their bachelor's degree in India or Australia.
All required materials, including recommendation letters and English language proficiency test scores, are due by your program's application deadline. Your application will not be discarded if you are missing materials after the deadline, but it will sit in a separate bin until it is complete, while the complete applications proceed to review by the department. To prevent a disadvantage to your application, it's in your best interest to make sure your recommendations and/or test scores are submitted before or as close to the deadline as possible.
Our staff manually processes TOEFL, IELTS, and PTE scores and academic credential evaluations. While the university is closed for winter recess, these materials are not being processed. Please check your application checklist on January 6 after we have returned from winter recess to see if your material has been added to your application. If it still hasn't, write to us at tisch.gradadmissions@nyu.edu.
Yes. As long as you have added contact details for 2 recommenders, you can submit your application even if they haven't submitted their letters yet.
You can use the hyperlinked text under the checklist on your application status page to revisit your recommendations tab. Here, you can send your recommender a reminder email to upload their recommendation. If you need to update any details for a recommender, like a typo in the email address, you will have to "exclude" the recommender and re-add them.
Yes: use the hyperlinked text under the checklist on your application status page to revisit your recommendations tab. Here, you can "exclude" a recommender to remove them and/or add a new recommender. You can add a maximum of 3 recommenders, but only 2 are required. If you need to update any details for a recommender, like a typo in the email address, you will have to "exclude" the recommender and re-add them.
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) gives you the right to request access to your educational records, including recommendation letters submitted as part of your application, if you enroll as a student. If you choose to waive your right to access your recommendations, you will never be able to request access to the recommendations submitted in your application.
Your decision to waive or not waive your right to access has no bearing on the review of your application, but some recommenders will not submit a recommendation unless you have chosen to waive your right. You should discuss whether your recommender would prefer that you waive your right to access the recommendation before you add them to your application. If you choose not to waive your right and your recommender asks you to change your election to waive your right, you will need to "exclude" them as a recommender and re-add them, this time choosing to waive your right.
Please note that regardless of whether or not you choose to waive your right to your recommendations, FERPA only applies to enrolled students at an institution. This means that if you choose not to waive your right but you are denied admission or you decline to enroll, you still cannot request access to your recommendations.
You'll receive an email with a link to schedule your audition within 2 hours of submitting your application. You can also schedule your audition from the "Schedule your audition" link on your application status page. Please note you must pay the application fee to be able to schedule your audition.
Please visit the "Schedule your audition" link on your application status page. First, you must go into the audition date and time slot that you originally scheduled and cancel that audition registration. After canceling, you can select a new audition slot.
If you want to change the mode of your audition (in other words, change from a virtual audition to an in-person audition or vice versa) you'll need a staff member to do this manually for you. Please write to gradacting@nyu.edu to request an audition modality change. University offices re-open after winter recess on January 5.
Officially, a bachelor's degree is required for admission into any master's degree programs at NYU. However, Grad Acting will consider applicants for admission even if they do not have a bachelor's degree and will not earn one by the time of enrollment. Please note that this applies to Grad Acting applicants only: all other master's programs at NYU require applicants to have earned or be expected to earn a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited university by the time they would enroll to be eligible for admission.
If you are a Grad Acting applicant who has not and will not earn a bachelor's degree, please enter any institution and any bachelor's degree as an Academic History entry. This will be required to submit your application. As soon as you submit your application, write to tisch.gradadmissions@nyu.edu to confirm that your Academic History entry was just a placeholder and that you have not and will not earn a bachelor's degree. Our staff will then remove the false entry from your application.