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so got an email from yale this evening... REJECTED! oh, well. besides the fact that i wasted a good chunk of money on the interview, i'm not as disappointed as i thought i'd be. i must admit though, it's pretty lame of them not to even offer a nice reception for us since we have to put so much time, effort, and money to get over there and interview in the first place. but i AM super stoked to be going to UNC this fall!! anyways, good luck to everyone else who applied to painting!! hopefully, it works out for the better for you all

oh, and ps. does anyone know if yale waitlists for any other genre besides graphic design?

congrats on getting waitlisted!! hopefully you get it if that's the school youre most interested in!

congrats on your acceptance! do you mean that yale sent out decisions through snail or how did you receive your notification? because it seems like the only department that's heard back so far is graphic design...unless you know someone in another genre who was accepted already? i looked on the portal and there's still nothing for me

haha i know!except that this forum has prevented me from getting false hopes up so many times. it's really addictive anyways, i dont know about the other genres but i know that for painting, they werent even doing the final review of all the pieces until this past monday. and then from what i've heard last year, they didnt send out notices until a week after that, so that would be next week for us. but who knows since this year theyre going paperless (from what i read on this forum anyways) so maybe we should be getting results faster. i wonder if all the departments are different though? since graphic design was so quick. anyways, good luck! (and good luck to me too haha) hopefully we hear good news soon

im waiting for painting, but nope. i thought i read somewhere on the forum that they would be notifying people today though? i've even been checking the portal but nothings new

haha it's true, this whole process really is taking a toll on me physically, too...i'm breaking out and i'm pretty sure all my hair is falling out, i've been finding big clumps of it everywhere...probably TMI haha anyways, good luck with everything! that's so awesome that you got a mini crit...i'm jealous, i wish they had given me one at my interview! do you have a website or something? i'd love to see your work! i love the figure and everything about it and how it associates with the environment around it, so i'd be really interested to see how youre handling it, too. it's always been what drew me to art in the first place.

that's awesome that you got such positive feedback! did they talk about your pieces in general or how did your interview work? for mine, they mainly asked questions. they themselves didn't really give me feedback on my pieces. it was mainly me doing the talking.

congrats and good luck with risd and yale! if it doesnt work out for me, im pretty sure im going to unc...they have the best work facilities and studio space that i've seen at any of the campuses i visited (besides yale) so i'm pretty set on them. hopefully, yale works out though either way, i'm excited to be moving to the east coast this fall though! i've never lived outside of california so this is definitely a new experience for me!

Don't worry, for Yale they aren't doing their final crit with the full faculty until Monday. So we won't be hearing from them until Monday at the earliest. It's been a really long weekend, but surprisingly, I've come to a real peace about it. As much as Ive fallen in love with Yale and would love to go in a heartbeat, if I don't make it in i'll be happy with one of the other schools I was accepted to. Whatever was meant to be, will be, I guess. And I don't have any regrets with the outcome of anything that's happened in my life so I'm totally fine with whatever the outcome will be for this. What day did you go to interview? Maybe we crossed paths at one point?

Got my rejection letter from VCU painting today with junk mail about their summer program. Has anyone gotten accepted to their program? Congrats to all who are getting acceptances!

has anyone in painting heard from VCU yet? and if you have, did you hear from them by phone, email, snail? i havent heard a word from them and am starting to wonder if they somehow lost my online application...

I hear you, this whole process can be pretty discouraging. I just received my first rejection letter from Carnegie Mellon a couple days back, and I know that this is just the first of many more. CM was especially hard for me because they don't ask for recommendations, so I felt like getting accepted would have been based soley on the strength of my work. So that would have been a nice affirmation. I was really depressed about it until I remembered that the reason I'm applying to grad school is because I want to further myself as an artist. I'm passionate about what I do, I love to do it, and I want to grow in my ability to articulate and more clearly understand what I'm so passionate about. So if a school doesn't want my type of work, it's a good thing that they rejected me. Because the whole point of going to grad school is to strengthen yourself as an artist, not to conform to the kind of work that a school might be interested in at the time. The problem with this whole application process is that it takes away from the joy of making art. Pretty soon we (or me, anyways) get so worried about whether our stuff is "grad school" worthy, that we stop enjoying the process and we start overthinking things way too much. It's hard to switch back and forth between these two mind sets, and I haven't figured out how to do it all that successfully yet. But I just wanted to reiterate what everyone else has been saying about not being discouraged (and I'm saying this as much for myself as I am to anyone else on this forum). We are going into this field for a reason, and to be honest, most likely it's not because we want to be encouraged, understood, and accepted every step of the way throughout our careers. We might not even want to be in this field to begin with, except that we need to for our sanity. So the most important thing is to continue making things and to remember to enjoy that process. The rest will fall into place eventually. And it's nice to know that there are so many encouraging and supportive people on this forum who are hoping for the best for each of us, too

Congratulations on your fellowship! Did anyone else here receive acceptance to UNC Chapel Hill?

what a relief. thank you for sharing this.