Hey OEE, would you mind terribly if I asked you to give me your SVA friend's email? Ask them first of course--but I emailed the school to see if there was a current student there I could talk to and they haven't responded yet. It would be soooo great to be able to ask a figure painter how their experience of the school is!!
Sounds like we've all got hard decisions to make in the next couple weeks! I thought waiting for acceptances/rejections was hard!
Heard from my last school: SVA...a surprise acceptance!
Anyone know firsthand about it? I looked at the graduate fine arts faculty and none of them are figure painters. I'm starting to wonder why they accepted me--I'm a figure painter.
Whatever--it's nice to get another acceptance. My husband teases me "You're 3 out of 9 good!" It's funny how we really start thinking that way--that these rejections/acceptances mean something about our art.
Congrats and Good luck for funding to everyone!
Just wondering if anyone else is as worried about the F word. How do you all pay for school when you don't have rich grandparents/parents? I've done all the FAFSA stuff but wondering if anyone else knows where to apply for more grants/fellowships outside of FAFSA and outside the schools? Like the NYFA but for more than just NY?
Congratulations to all acceptees!
the best of luck for your interview.
rejected from Parsens. 3 more schools left. I'm starting to think of other plans for this year...maybe I'll try again next year.
thanks to everyone for advice--keep it coming!
graphikchik--thanks for the "emerging artist in residence" idea. I'm pretty ignorant about this whole sphere--thanks for advice. I also wondered what your mentor had to say about SAIC--what was his complaint about it?
I agree with you portafoy. This whole process is so bizarre. Who knows what's going on with these guys.
I got a letter from SAIC yesterday too. It was similar to yours, Coberry27, only they want me to apply to their Post Bacc. At first I was depressed at the rejection but now I"m seriously thinking about it. I'm wondering what other people think about this option? Two months ago I wasn't even planning on applying to grad schools--sometimes I think a year more of preparing would be good...what do you guys think? Have any of you done a post bacc? Seems like a lot of money for no degree.
Thanks Coberry27. Depresses me a little--I was almost deluded enough to think CalArts rejected me because of my bad GPA. Sigh.
portafoy--I'm pretty sure an invitation for interview means you passed some preliminary review. As a friend who knows about these things told me: they're looking for reasons to like you when interviewing. Congratulations!
I had an interview with SFAI but I'm in painting, also they don't interview everyone. I just got my tracking ID from Columbia and checked the status of my application today and saw that they had the wrong university listed as my undergrad! I would recommend anyone applying to columbia to check their status for mistakes.
I was wondering if anyone knows how much GPA effects our applications for MFA programs? Mine's not the best.
Rejections are awful. so far my ratio is 3/1. Lame.
2nd question, Is anyone considering reapplying next year if they don't get into the school they want?
I'm currently waiting for a phone call--interview--from SFAI. Very Frightened.
I've been rejected from CalArts and Yale. Anyone heard from Columbia, Chicago Institute, Parsens, or SVA?
Good luck to everyone! Hi to Paul51--hope we'll be classmates.