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a reminder to would be UCSD applicants, the deadline is tomorrow! If you're looking for a stellar fully funded program in Southern California, don't wait

+1 for Rutgers. Disagree that they are just a painting-centric program though. Or at least the sense I got from talking to them last year is that they are trying very hard to move away from that. I can't speak from experience as to whether it is true yet, but it looks promising, especially looking at the faculty, Natalie Bookchin, Aki Sasamoto, etc.

I guess it depends what you consider walking distance, but I would say that Mesa is close enough to the Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and Ralphs on Villa La Jolla Drive. I'd say it's about a 20 or 30 minute walk.

Cool, thanks for letting us know. Sucks to hear you didn't get your first choice

ooh yeah I am curious too. I put Sept 1st, and wasn't expecting to hear anything for a while yet. Did they call you or email?

Its not about a specific lack of something, but about the value of what one can gain/learn from the time away from school. To be clear, I totally agree that there is no catch-all advice, and that many are ready to go straight from undergrad, but I do think that carryover's advice is good, perhaps without the tone of definitiveness that (s)he uses.

Yes, to my email I provided on the application.

hmm.. for SHORE right? I sent mine in a couple weeks ago, and got an email confirming it was received. You might want to check in.

Thanks for all the freak-outs everyone! Its been a long couple of years. I am going to be attending UC San Diego in the fall! I applied for MFA programs two years in a row, and had far better results the second time, from only one acceptance in 2014, to four in 2015. In between I did a couple of residencies, exhibitions, and kept making work. I'm posting my results here in case anyone is interested. Hopefully it will be encouraging for those who didn't get the results they were looking for this year to try again in a year or two. Unsure if I want to post my website, but if anyone is interested, feel free to PM me. 2015: UCSD - Interviewed/ Accepted/ Going (full tuition + TA) UC Irvine - Interviewed/ Waitlist/ Accepted (full tuition + TA) Rutgers - Accepted (no interview) (with TA position = full tuition + $25k/year) SAIC - Interviewed: Performance, Sculpture/ Accepted: Performance (with 20% tuition scholarship), Sculpture, FVNMA UCLA, USC, Yale - Rejected 2014: University of Chicago - Interviewed/ Waitlist/ Accepted (50% tuition 1st year, 100% 2nd year +TA) UCSD - Interviewed/ Rejected UCLA, USC, Yale, Columbia - Rejected

Thanks for the thoughts. I went with my gut today and committed to UCSD

I've been thinking about three offers, all with full tuition, but varying amounts of TA money (UC Irvine, UCSD, and Rutgers), and I think my decision is pretty much made. Probably going to accept UCSD tomorrow. It has been hard to discount the absolutely stellar funding from Rutgers, but like others have been posting recently, its about a lot more than just the money. Who knew that this part of the process would be just as stressful as the actual application part.

if the video is embedded anywhere, you can see which URL is getting embed views, so we see application.skowheganart.org

Hmm. I wonder how they would possibly know the former though? If I applied in December, before I even finished MFA applications, how would they know that I even applied or had been accepted when they are making their decisions in march/april?

Thanks for the input! I think the funding should be comparable, although I'm still waiting for the details from SD. Thanks, this is good to know. I am an international student (Canada), and so I would only be able to stick around for about a year after graduating anyways. I am trying to figure out whether that makes those LA connections even more or less important.. hmmm.

just got an acceptance email from UCSD! (on my birthday no less. haha) does anyone have any input on choosing between UC Irvine and UCSD? I have my own interests in each program, but I am mainly trying to figure out how much importance I should place in UCI's closer proximity to LA. Any thoughts?

mine were also viewed a bunch in February, and then once or twice in the past week. So it seems like we all have the same pattern. I wonder if maybe it doesn't mean anything.

This was my second year in a row applying. I reapplied to 4 of the same schools, but only one of them allowed you to use letters from the previous year. I ended up just requesting new letters for all (2 of the same recommenders, one different). Keep in mind that if someone has already written you a letter before, it is not nearly as time consuming for them to do it again the next year because they will probably just revise/update the letter from the previous year.

lol, just stumbled by this charming one: UCSD Biological Sciences PhD "Suck my d*** UCSD" (censorship in original)

congrats dryheat! here's hoping that things aren't as messed up over there as the rumours suggest

the email is a link to login to the app status site here: https://appstatus.grad.ucla.edu/Account/Login.aspx

PSA for newcomers to the thread. Use the search function at the top right to find out what people have posted so far about particular schools.

Any thoughts on reaching out to a program after an interview? I did the usual thank-you emails immediately following the interview, but now 1+ week later, I'm wondering if it would be appropriate to contact them again... or just wait some more.... kld;sajajkfdlsjaf; I just want to know alreadyyyy. ps. Good luck to everyone who is interviewing with SAIC this weekend!

not painting. I don't remember applying for a particular discipline. In the array of tick-box friendly labels I would be something like new genres.

Don't know anything aside from my own experience, but I was notified of being accepted to Rutgers about a week ago. Did not interview.

No, it said absolutely nothing about financial aid. so I don't know if that means I didn't get any, or if they notify you of that separately.