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Hey, congrats on the SMFA interview! The school should tell you what they need. My SAIC performance interview doesn't require me to bring anything original, but they did tell me to bring my portfolio on a flash drive as a backup. Yale is pretty notorious for requiring original work at the interviews for painting applicants (sculpture seems exempt from this, thankfully, and I have no idea about the other departments). If you have an interview and are unclear on the parameters, by all means ask the program assistant. My overall impression is that requiring original work is pretty rare. That said, it's not a bad idea to have documentation on you of both your portfolio and recent work (either finished or in-progress) since submission.

Agreed. I'm a little surprised, given that in past years seems like they've notified everyone at once. Maybe someone from the art school is trolling us, who knows (:

I looked at the page through the internet archive. It has said early February since late 2013. Before then it said mid-February. Guess we'll just have to be on tenterhooks for a little bit. ps. sorry for those of you who saw the thread was updated and you got a mini-heart attack because you thought someone had actual information from Yale

They have given results on Fridays more often than not. Last year it was the 30th, which is a Friday. Hang tight dudes!!

uuuuuugh the wait is killing me. I got into this art show that has this benefit dinner tonight, which will be great for making connections and having my work seen by people. Unfortunately, that means I really ought to be on my best behavior, so I won't be day drinking along with the rest of you. The Metro North goes all the way there and they have a Trader Joe's nearby, so I'm happy to call it "civilization." In all seriousness, though, anyplace is what you make of it. I went to a college that had as many students as my high school and was in a very rural area. And you know what? It was fun. I got an advanced degree in a big city, which was also fun. Even if you dislike the town, really, it's only two years. It'll fly by before you know it.

congrats dude!! when's it happening? thank you so so so much (: (:

Yeah, but you're in somewhere! Congrats, and hoping this is the first of many for you. I have to ask you about UIUC. I don't have an email confirmation that they actually received my application (though when I log in, the app status is submitted). Curious if you had the same thing happen to you.

Have you heard of NYU's ITP program? It's not an MFA, but an MPS (Master of Professional Studies) -- I thought about applying briefly, but decided not to. Might be worth looking into, but it seems like that program is significantly larger than most universities' MFA programs, and I'm not sure what kind of funding they have available. Good luck to you!

I'm sure they're more than used to talking to people who are nervous. Don't sweat it! Your work is really strong and that's far and away the most important thing. Hoping for the best for you!

yeah the wait for Stanford is killing me! congrats on Davis by the by. and -- really nice work! it's funny, since they banned plastic bags in SF, I look at them as some kind of novelty (:

new life goal: make this happen for real. (doesn't have to be Yale, but it's gotta happen. but of course by the time we'd get to teaching, all the younguns probably wouldn't understand our dated memespeak)

omg thank you so much for this -- made me laugh so hard

Dude! Congratulations!! You're killing it.

Yup. Sculpture here, and different dates, but same exact form.

Oh man, fingers crossed for you! Someone from Penn spent a decent amount of time on my site a week or two ago. Plot twist: I didn't apply there (: I got all excited when I saw someone from Palo Alto had visited my site a few days ago, but it was a bot. Womp womp!

Nah. Don't worry about it. They're professionals. They know what it's like and how arbitrary art school admissions can be. I'd bet they're more interested in celebrating your successes, because those make them look good too (:

Calm down?! Dude, this is the FREAK OUT ???

Really depends on the day. Some days I'll go to the studio and CRANK; other days I can't resist the siren song of the internet. It did take me a few days after the applications were in to get back to the studio and start working again, though.

Just remembered IUPUI has a later deadline (2/15, I think). I met some of their folks at the portfolio day -- they were incredibly nice -- and they indicated doing cross-disciplinary things would be feasible there. (I don't remember if it's actually part of the curriculum or not.) Depending on what you want to do, you might have to petition for permission, but I definitely got the impression that they'd make it happen for the right person asking for the right reasons.

Interdisciplinary as in attached to a university where you'd have access to other departments, or interdisciplinary as in you're encouraged to work in all sorts of media? If the latter, SFAI takes applications basically until the academic year starts. (I've been on their mailing list for a year and change, and I kept getting emails saying "It's not too late!" through last August.) I know someone who applied last April or May and got in with a full ride. She loves it. The recent SFAI grads I've talked to have told me that once you're in, you're in, and you can experiment and use whatever media you want, basically -- the departments are definitely not airtight.

Wooooooo, congratulations! That's awesome!

Currently obsessing over external video embed load/play stats over here. Big mistake to open that can of worms. (I can see they're being loaded via SlideRoom embeds, but don't have specific geographical info. Which is probably for the best.)

Re USC: The problem is that their credibility is shot in many people's minds (mine included). For their program to survive, they're going to have to demonstrate that they're able not only to broker fair deals with their current and prospective students, but also---and more importantly---to keep their word with respect to said deals. (This doesn't even come near the concerns about their faculty.) For USC to rebuild goodwill and credibility, they need guinea pigs: people who are willing to be a test case. And those test cases would, by necessity, need to accept the risk that promised funding could conceivably go up in smoke. I'm not willing to take that risk, and it seems a lot of you aren't either. Also, not gonna lie, as a dyed-in-the-wool Notre Dame football fan, going to Southern Cal (or even giving them application fee $) would be anathema.

Oh lord, yes. I've gotten a few of those application confirmation emails that start off "Thank you for your application/interest/whatever ...." My immediate reaction upon seeing THAT kind of opening (as opposed to "Congratulations!") is "oh shit, I've been rejected." Never mind that some of these emails were sent before the final deadlines had even passed. Deep breaths...