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Anyone else here going to CCA?

Bumping this up for anyone headed to the Bay Area for school in the Fall! CCA has two campuses - one in Oakland (near Rockridge BART) and one in SF (about a mile from 16th + Mission BART). I'll split my time between them but thinking of living in Oakland. Anyone here have advice on finding a place (neighborhoods that can still be affordable for a student, any leads on where to find housing)? Would a car be a total drag (not sure what parking is like)? I'm coming from Brooklyn, but have lived there my whole life so mostly have avoided the effects of gentrification on my cost of living...so rly curious what folks are experiencing in SF and Oakland.

I declined programs as soon as I made my decision (towards the end of last week). I actually have until May 1 for all programs except one, but figured I'd just rip off the band-aid and stop wavering in my decision. Not sure if that's common, but that's what I did.

I think going with the one that will leave you with less debt is smart, but depends on how significant the difference is. CalArts has an amazing faculty (incl. visiting artists/faculty) and connections to the fine art photo world, so it's definitely a great choice. I declined due to low funding but perhaps you can negotiate with them?

How's funding looking for folks? I got a half-tuition fellowship, which is pretty strong...but still leaves me with half tuition to pay with money that doesn't exist.... Curious if anyone was able to negotiate a higher funding package.

Thanks for the response, heyward!! Appreciate the thoughts. Theory v. technical is def what I am looking for in an interdisciplinary environment. Curious if you know any scholarships for students in the area - I'm from NYC, so not as familiar with the landscape in SF. Trying to find a way to make living expenses work, ahh!

I work at ICP (not in the MFA) - the facilities are amazing (the very best I've seen - I feel quite spoiled). There are also lots of amazing faculty members, a great visiting artist program, and wide variety of classes. I would visit if you can. They have studios in Long Island City, where each student puts up a solo show, and they also have a group show in the school's gallery in midtown.

Anybody have thoughts on CCA? I haven't visited yet, but I'm weighing a pretty strong funding offer from them with lower funding offers (but wayyyy less expensive cities - so living expenses in the Bay are a big concern). I dig the program from what I see so far and am interested in their dual-degree with Visual + Critical Studies. My options at this point are CCA Fine Arts, UPenn (low funding offer), RISD Photo (low funding), CalArts Photo (funding TBD), and MICA Photo (funding TBD). Anyone have perspectives on these programs? UPenn was (is?) my top choice but their funding offer is way too low to make it feasible...

I was informally accepted during my interview on Tuesday. Haven't received any email or word on funding just yet.

Tim confirmed my interview for Monday - got an email from him last night. Did you hear back?

I think it varies by department - I think photo tries to distribute their funding evenly across all accepted students but the person I spoke to let me know that each department decides what they do with their pool of funding.

RISD photo acceptance - anyone also hear back??

For anyone waiting on MICA: just got a Photo interview request, via email today. Asking to chat via Skype before Monday.

PennDesign folks! Funding letter should be included on March 13th with the online notification. The waiting......

Well, I think! I enjoyed chatting with the faculty - asked me questions that felt pretty standard (why grad school at this time, why cal arts, what am i working on right now) and were pretty transparent with answering my questions. got a good feel from them! how did yours go?

Anyone interview at CalArts (Skype) with Photo? Have mine today!

me too, but based on past year results - assuming rejection at this point. :\ I think we would have received an interview phone call already...

Anyone interview with CalArts photo yet? I'm interviewing over Skype today.

Anyone hear back from PennDesign today? I got an acceptance email from the department!

same - bummer to both of us

Sidenote - I don't know if anyone here uses squarespace (or maybe your site hosting does this, too)... but I'm so/too obsessed with the Activity Log that as all the IP addresses and page visits of those visiting your site. Leads me to constantly check if people from schools I applied to are visiting, ahhhh. I remember someone asked me about it a while back - Google Analytics doesn't list IPs (although you can find ISP's via GA), so wack. Check if your hosting vendor has something like this! Or don't actually. It's a total time-suck :\

Whoa, how'd you know to log into webadvisor? Do all schools have something like this? sidenote - I'm accepted as well! Congrats!

Just as an FYI - I think the agenda will be about the same as the open house in Nov. I'm trying to figure out if I should take off work for that day or if there would be a better day to visit that can be more geared to accepted students (iffff that's the case of course!).

Had my interview with RISD. Pretty relaxed (that's been my general experience so far). Good questions but nothing too difficult. Just asked about myself and my work, how research/process play into my work. Anyone interview over Skype with CalArts yet? Have my interview with them in a week.

Did anyone here apply to Tulane and get a letter? Emailed with the department and learned that "letters to accepted students have been mailed." Should be coming in the mail - not sure if that means rejected applicants also receive a letter. Have been getting a few visits from Tulane on my site so wondering what the verdict will be :\