Gwhar1

I applied to Delaware. Haven't heard anything since I submitted 

Very Cool!! Congrats

Very Cool!! Congrats

Welcome stranger - there are other printmakers on this forum who are also applying during this cycle. 

Yes!! Congrats. 

No way I can afford the debt after undergrad. I only received acceptance from New York Academy of Art but, they give no money. 60k for two years. Insane! It is totally not worth it. 

Completely agree with what's been said about the writing / application process positively channelling into work. I took a short break after finishing my applications and jumped right back into the studio. Partially it was to make new work for interviews, but it was also because I felt really invigorated by the writing (after getting over the exhaustion of course! :D) . It was a little bit like "ah! that's why I've been doing that!" The work I've made in the past month and a half feels a lot more pointed. I know that I'm going to dig myself back into a place where I'll need to sit back and go through that writing/thinking phase again, but that's how it goes & is a good thing. 
On another note—had my Yale interview yesterday morning! It felt like it went really well. The atmosphere was conversational & friendly, but with questions that were very content-heavy & super specific to my work. I was blown away by how invested the dialogue seemed. Every time I've visited Yale, I feel like I leave being more & more enamored with the program. Everyone I met was really interesting & intelligent, but not super pretentious. It's going to be interesting to compare & contrast with Rutgers. Excited to meet some of you there! 

Dang, just got another rejection. This time from Hunter. I think it is a good fit so it stings a little, less so than the first rejection, so a marked increase in my resilience is one take-away from this stressful process. This is my first cycle and I thought I’d have some choices by now. I applied to 9 programs and have been rejected from 4, invited to interview at 2 and haven’t heard boo from the remaining three. I have heard that toughening-up the hide is necessary to survive the art world and to this end I am off to a good start  Silly but true. Also, there have been other marked progressions in my practice, obvious in retrospect, but unexpected at the outset. First, I learned to be comfortable talking about my work. The first essay (Yale) was the hardest and the clumsiest. I figured I’d get the important one out of the way and I would use whatever smart stuff I came up with for all my applications.  It turned out that schools want different information, and after amending, rewriting, and surmising, many times over, my essays got good at the end of the submission process -when the program mattered the least to me. Of course, It doesn’t mean that My UD essay would have wowed the folks at Yale, or that I’d get accepted into my less desirable program. We all know that qualification for candidacy does not guarantee selection.  The point is that I’ve developed fluency when discussing my own visual language, intention, and process. This has given my work a voice it didn’t have, and my work is stronger as a result. So that’s the other thing. My work got better after my applications were in.
Totally. All the documentation, descriptions, resizing, personal statements, SOP’s, and artist’s statements, clarified what my work was about in a way that made is easier to see where it should be going and my work is starting to look as cohesive as I wished it was when I put the application packages together. All this is to say that, if I don’t get any offers I can afford, or any offers at all, I am looking forward with a new-found confidence despite the rejections. This on-line community has been a great help and congratulations to all the folks who have received offers!! 

Dang, just got another rejection. This time from Hunter. I think it is a good fit so it stings a little, less so than the first rejection, so a marked increase in my resilience is one take-away from this stressful process. This is my first cycle and I thought I’d have some choices by now. I applied to 9 programs and have been rejected from 4, invited to interview at 2 and haven’t heard boo from the remaining three. I have heard that toughening-up the hide is necessary to survive the art world and to this end I am off to a good start  Silly but true. Also, there have been other marked progressions in my practice, obvious in retrospect, but unexpected at the outset. First, I learned to be comfortable talking about my work. The first essay (Yale) was the hardest and the clumsiest. I figured I’d get the important one out of the way and I would use whatever smart stuff I came up with for all my applications.  It turned out that schools want different information, and after amending, rewriting, and surmising, many times over, my essays got good at the end of the submission process -when the program mattered the least to me. Of course, It doesn’t mean that My UD essay would have wowed the folks at Yale, or that I’d get accepted into my less desirable program. We all know that qualification for candidacy does not guarantee selection.  The point is that I’ve developed fluency when discussing my own visual language, intention, and process. This has given my work a voice it didn’t have, and my work is stronger as a result. So that’s the other thing. My work got better after my applications were in.
Totally. All the documentation, descriptions, resizing, personal statements, SOP’s, and artist’s statements, clarified what my work was about in a way that made is easier to see where it should be going and my work is starting to look as cohesive as I wished it was when I put the application packages together. All this is to say that, if I don’t get any offers I can afford, or any offers at all, I am looking forward with a new-found confidence despite the rejections. This on-line community has been a great help and congratulations to all the folks who have received offers!! 

Dang, just got another rejection. This time from Hunter. I think it is a good fit so it stings a little, less so than the first rejection, so a marked increase in my resilience is one take-away from this stressful process. This is my first cycle and I thought I’d have some choices by now. I applied to 9 programs and have been rejected from 4, invited to interview at 2 and haven’t heard boo from the remaining three. I have heard that toughening-up the hide is necessary to survive the art world and to this end I am off to a good start  Silly but true. Also, there have been other marked progressions in my practice, obvious in retrospect, but unexpected at the outset. First, I learned to be comfortable talking about my work. The first essay (Yale) was the hardest and the clumsiest. I figured I’d get the important one out of the way and I would use whatever smart stuff I came up with for all my applications.  It turned out that schools want different information, and after amending, rewriting, and surmising, many times over, my essays got good at the end of the submission process -when the program mattered the least to me. Of course, It doesn’t mean that My UD essay would have wowed the folks at Yale, or that I’d get accepted into my less desirable program. We all know that qualification for candidacy does not guarantee selection.  The point is that I’ve developed fluency when discussing my own visual language, intention, and process. This has given my work a voice it didn’t have, and my work is stronger as a result. So that’s the other thing. My work got better after my applications were in.
Totally. All the documentation, descriptions, resizing, personal statements, SOP’s, and artist’s statements, clarified what my work was about in a way that made is easier to see where it should be going and my work is starting to look as cohesive as I wished it was when I put the application packages together. All this is to say that, if I don’t get any offers I can afford, or any offers at all, I am looking forward with a new-found confidence despite the rejections. This on-line community has been a great help and congratulations to all the folks who have received offers!! 

COngrats!!  

COngrats!!  

Invited to interview at Purchase Whoo Hoo! 

Invited to interview at Purchase Whoo Hoo! 

Invited to interview at Purchase Whoo Hoo! 

yay! Congrats!

Congratz!!
 

@Poodle-Doodle 
@meghanmetier 2nd and 3rd week of February once they finalize their first round picks. 

Y'ALL YALE
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Me too!
Congrats

Congratulations! I just got my rejection letter from Northwestern. 
I will be interviewing with PennDesign as well. It's a fairly long drive for me, but I want to see the facilities so I think I will make it work. 

SAIC Sculpture Interview! 

In Scotland so I have a little experience with GSA through friends and peers who attend/attended, I even went for an interview for the MFA there a couple of years ago. Didn't get accepted but it was for the best, I think I lacked confidence because basically the feedback I received was my work was well developed, independent etc  but I would benefit from spending a little time outside of education for personal development. They were right because boy did I lack confidence! I've been busy developing myself since then, getting opportunities in the UK and abroad and I definitely think it was the right call on their part. I decided to consider a mfa again this year so I am applying this year to the RCA in London because I'm intrigued by the Moving Image pathway. I won't be applying again to GSA because for me I don't think its a good fit in terms of the facilities for the type of work I make. 
GSA has a good reputation, a big aspect of the 'Glasgow Miracle' is folks that passed through the school and it means a lot of the students are not just from the UK.  I know there has been protests there in the last year. It would be worth googling that. The studio space was decent when I saw it in early 2014 but since 'The Fire INCIDENT' it might have changed? hopefully someone else can come along and clarify. Glasgow is a great city x!

I don't know if the masters is increasing its acceptance rate also but if you apply, it would be a good question, if their class size is also increasing. They might be more careful maintaining the masters resources/facilities. 
Rent isnt so so bad in Glasgow compared to many other cities like Edinburgh and London but most people I know who live there, while studying, live with others. You could check out gumtree.co.uk or sites like it for an idea of cost.