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Cranbrook sent me an email saying the decisions will be mailed out 30-45 days after the deadline(1st feb) for 2D design. So yeah, still waiting for it. Do you guys notice a trend? I have seen that the admits are informed through email while the rejects arrive by post. Any views on this?

No idea about Chemical engineering. But my SO got an admit into phd Mechanical engineering about 3 days back.

If you want to improve your work, I say go for it. Don't do it just to make up for the missing degree though. I haven't done my bachelors in Art either, but things aren't going that bad for me as of now. All the websites of the schools I have applied to say that they don't require a BFA for their grad courses but obviously that will be preferred. So yeah, there is so correct answer to your question. But people DO get admitted even without a BFA.

Congrats on the admit labmouse.

Thanks a lot. Good luck to you too.

I have always wondered how the admission process works for MFA applicants. Considering that a lot of schools don't even require GRE scores, all they have to judge us are portfolios, SOPs and recommendation letters. Personally, this is how I picture it. A huge room with one person(let's call him John) sitting next to the computer/projector, another table where others sit facing the screen. John inserts a CD, first slide comes up, they laugh and you can hear a few comments of "What was he thinking?". John ejects the CD, breaks it into pieces and inserts the next CD. Process goes on for some 50 applicants when they see a portfolio which deserves to be seen in its entirety. At the end of it, probably they laugh again. So on and so forth till they get 30 CDs/slides they actually respect, out of about a 1000? (I read somewhere that RISD's acceptance rate is 16/1000). Now, those 30 get interview calls, some 500 get rejection letters and the rest get an invitation to join the Bachelor's program. Seriously though. If someone actually knows what goes on in there, it would be great to know. I can only think of horrible, horrible answers. Latest vision I conjured? A grad student weeding out the 'they're just going to laugh at this' applicants.

Mostly I applied to a lot of schools because my SO is applying this year too. Both of us are international applicants and I wanted as less chances as possible of making this relationship an international LDR. If I have some choice at the end of this, one factor would be a school close to where he is going. I didn't even see any school's catalog. Just went to the student galleries and chose schools based on that. But I know what you mean. Cranbrook sent me an email saying that my application was complete and ready for review about 2 weeks back. I don't know what took them so long! If schools don't email me, I will be waiting for a long, long time before getting to know what the result is. Letters take about 2 weeks to reach me. :|

Have been through two interviews and the questions were more or less the same. - Why Graphic Design? - Why grad studies? - Why 'insert school name here'? - What do you think is the future of design? How do you see yourself placed in that image? I have had a lot of fun giving these interviews. I felt like I was talking to a friend when we discussed problems faced by the designers/design today. I think the questions asked are the ones you would be asking yourself every single day, so answering them is not that big a deal. Just be relaxed, take it easy and be honest.

I agree. The reject from Yale was a pretty generic one too. One would expect that they would atleast give you SOME pointers on why you were turned down. I hate to think that it could have been my portfolio.

Another one to join the MFA discussion thread. I applied to, well, a LOT of schools. So far, Interviews - Calarts, Art Center, SVA Rejects - Yale School of Art Waiting for decision from - MICA, RISD, CCA, Cranbrook, RIT, UIC I applied for an MFA in graphic design. *waves