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I went to Pratt for undergrad which was amazing. But their MFA program and what was coming out of it didn't seem as good. With their high tuition you may be better off at brooklyn college even if it may not have ALL the advantages of Pratt in terms of facilities. I'd look really closely into both, visiting artists as well, and see what is best for you.

I went to Pratt for my BFA which was great. What major are you looking at for their MFA? To be honest, for their painting MFA you may be able to get a better program somewhere else for the money. I'd recommend their BFA program over the MFA.

Hi everyone, I just made a huge boo boo on my application and accidentally shrunk my photos to 80kb in Photoshop and they were submitted in Slideroom that way. Yikes! I was using a new version of Photoshop and I wasn't used to it and it was telling me that the images were larger than what they were. But now I can't go back in to edit. Does anyone know if the graduate admissions office has a way to let you re-submit new images and go back in and fiz this??? I don't want to change any part of muy application but just make sure it's readable.

Anyone hear anything about what UArts MFA program is like in Studio Arts? In terms of the faculty, administration..

Hi "Stranger" thank you for the useful feedback. I know I would have to have a job but it is more of the "day" part of day job that I was worried about. I work better during the day so it takes away from my more productive studio hours. Or maybe the better solution would be to have cheaper rent and therefore not have to worry so much about the income pressure but in NYC good luck. Thank you for the comments on figure painting as well. I'll keep researching more programs that have some professors that work with realism more so that I won't feel like such an outcast or that I have nothing in common with anyone.

Like many others on here I'm going to be applying for an MFA in painting/or just Fine Art MFA dependiing on the program. I have just finished my BFA this past year but am a mature student. Am slightly freaking out since I would like to make more work over the next few months and have applications to put together but I have a full time Mon-Fri gig. Any advice? My day job is killing me because it's sucking all my productive time away. Quit the day job? Maybe the solution for now would be to make less labor intensive work to add to my portfolio? (I'm primarily an oil painter who does yes, work with the figure). Which brings me to the 2nd question. What IS so taboo about the figure? If as Jerry Saltz says, take your obsession and use it, and my obsession is people, why shouldn't I be plastering my walls with them? I think in my grad school application there has to be a way to stay true to what is important to me while still being contemporary and thinking about art's place in history. Any thoughts from recent or former MFA grad's?