Piano Studies student Christopher Zandieh

Transfer Process FAQ's

Piano Studies Undergraduate Degree

BM, Piano Performance

Transfer Process FAQ's

Your transfer process depends on where you are currently attending school, and to which program you are applying. To transfer into Piano Studies, your application process includes the submission of audition materials.

  • Transfers to NYU from another academic institution: Please use this application. You will also need to submit a video audition, featuring required repertoire, via the GetAcceptd protocol.
  • Transfers to NYU Steinhardt from another NYU school: Please use the NYU transfer application. You must follow the University transfer guidelines. You will also need to submit a video audition, featuring required repertoire, via the GetAcceptd protocol.
  • Transfers to Piano Studies from another NYU Steinhardt department: Please submit the Change of Major Application for the Undergraduate Program by March 1 (for Fall matriculation).
  • Transfers to from another Music and Performing Arts Professions (MPAP) program:
    • Students may not apply for a change of major until at least their second semester of study at NYU.
    • The latest students can begin their study at a new NYU school/program is the first semester of their junior year.
    • Students must complete the Change of Major Application and submit a statement of purpose (a rationale for your request, no more than 350 words).
    • All applications must be received by March 1st for Fall change of major and November 1st for Spring change of major.
    • Programs will review applications throughout the month of March/November. Decisions will be made no later than April 15th for Fall change of major, and December 15th for the Spring change of major.
    • Students should reach out to Dr. Marilyn Nonken directly to schedule an audition and interview.

Following the review of your online application, the department will inform you if you've been accepted to a Piano Studies major. At that time, you will be instructed to submit an official undergraduate Change of Major form, to be submitted to steinhardt.advisement.registration@nyu.edu.

Students must complete one full year in the program to which they were originally admitted before they are eligible to transfer (unless you are already in MPAP). Many students apply in the Spring of their freshman or sophomore year for entrance in the Fall.

We recommend that students have a 2.7 GPA or better prior to declaring a major in Piano Studiesin order to make satisfactory academic progress within the major.

The maximum number of credits you can transfer in is 72. However, if you want to be eligible for Latin Honors at NYU (cum laude, magna cum laude, summa cum laude), the maximum number of credits you can transfer in from another college or university is 64.

Not necessarily. Once you are accepted, your undergraduate college transcript(s) will be evaluated. Only courses with a grade of C or better will be considered. External Transfers will receive a statement of transfer credit with your admissions packet, which will specify the courses being accepted for transfer credit. Specific questions should be discussed with your academic adviser.

Quite possibly. Please visit the CCTOP website for more information.

Transfer applicants must audition via video and submit their video auditions on GetAcceptd following this protocol. Applicants must present four works, selected from five possible eras: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Modern, and Post-1945. The following, sometimes overlapping time spans should be used as a reference. No two pieces chosen should be from the same time period or overlapping years.

  • Baroque (to ca. 1750)
  • Classical (ca. 1750–ca. 1830)
  • Romantic (ca. 1830–1899)
  • Modern (1900–1945)
  • Post-1945 (1945–2026); original compositions may also be offered as a supplement, but not instead of this requirement.

Video auditions must contain the complete audition repertoire, played in its entirety. Individual works may not be edited. It is preferred that all repertoire be recorded in a single take, with the performer announcing their full name and the date of the recording at the beginning.

Audition repertoire must be memorized and works prepared in their entirety. Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis; applicants with questions should contact Dr. Marilyn Nonken.