5 Tips to Get Your NYU Application Submitted

For technical issues with your application, please contact the Common Application directly in advance of the application deadline.

Common Application has teams working 24/7 to support applicants and recommenders.

First-year applicants, please refer to the Applicant Support Portal and/or the Recommender Support Portal.

Transfer applicants, please access the Transfer Help Center and/or email support at:

• Applicant Help Center Email: [email protected]
• Recommender Help Center Email: [email protected]

Unfortunately, we are unable to help with Common Application technical issues. Therefore, you must work with Common Application to resolve your technical issues before the application deadline.

If you submitted your application already and need to update something, don’t panic. You can submit update requests through the application status page using the information update request form(s) located in the upper right-hand corner of the page or below your checklists on a mobile device.

You will sign in to the application status page using your Net ID and the password you created on the NYU Start Page.

If you recently submitted your application, you may not have received your NYU ID email yet. It can take our office 3-7 days after submission of your application to process your materials and send this email. Once you receive your NYU IDs, you can set up your account and submit the request.

Once our office has processed your application, you will receive your NYU IDs in an email with the subject line “Your NYU ID Numbers and Status Page.”

Find out more about these forms and all the different things you can update.

It is OK to send supporting materials (letters of recommendation, transcripts, etc.) after the deadline, as long as you submit your application via the CommonApp by the application deadline.

We understand that, like NYU, many schools are on winter break and won’t send in documents until after they return.

Submit all of your materials and complete your application by the following dates to ensure we’re able to give every piece of your application full consideration:

• Early Decision I: November 15
• Early Decision II: January 15
• Regular Decision: February 1

This year (for the Class of 2028) standardized testing is welcome, but not required.

If you choose to submit standardized testing, NYU will accept official or unofficial test scores (as well as transcripts) for the purposes of our application review process. You can send unofficial documents by email to [email protected] or upload them through your applicant portal, which you will gain access to after submitting the Common App.

While we can wait for test scores to arrive, we can’t guarantee we’ll wait for scores from exams taken after the deadline. Remember to ask your counselor to send predicted scores for national exams that meet our testing requirement if you won’t sit for the exam before the application deadline.

Additionally, review our English Language Testing information and be sure to send those as well if they’re required for you.

Are you applying to one of our programs at Tisch or Steinhardt with an artistic review? You will need to be sure to submit both your application and your artistic portfolio or schedule your audition by the deadline.

The various artistic programs manage these processes in different ways, using different systems. For some programs, you will submit your portfolio or schedule your audition through your applicant portal. For other programs, you will use Slideroom, GetAccepted, or another process. Reach out to our office or the department you are applying to if you have any questions about this process.

Students applying only to an artistic program at NYU are not required to send test scores. Therefore, make sure to select the option on the Common Application to waive the standardized testing requirement. You should still send English Language Testing if required, though.