Private · New York, NY

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Application
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Recommendations
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Personal essay
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Regular decision
January 12, 2027
Early Action
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Early Decision
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Additional info

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Supplemental essays

In approximately 500 words, discuss your reasons for pursuing undergraduate study in the visual arts.

Optional · 500 words

Describe an imaginative story or significant real-life event in 500 words or less. This essay should be told as a short story with a plot, including a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Optional · 500 words

Adapt the story from part one into cinematic terms using 1,000 words or less. By retelling the same story in these terms, the applicant is encouraged to be very visually descriptive, using camera cues/angles and dialogue.

Optional · 1000 words

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