ArtStarMaker

Congrats on everyone's acceptances. I was also waitlisted at Cornell--it looks like they waitlist as many people as they accept...or nearly? I'm actually relieved I didn't get in...I really thought it'd be a good fit for me via the website description but when I went there, the facilities seem outdated and overall Ithaca seemed so gloomy (maybe because it was an overcast day?) and I really couldn't wait to get out of there. Also one of the professors behaved in a downright rude and unprofessional manner which signaled to me this ain't for me. If it was ego that drove that behavior then, dear god, I dodged a bullet...especially since I find her work so mediocre to begin with. And that's just it...I'm not impressed with any of the professors work and several of them don't seem to show their work beyond Cornell's galleries which doesn't seem a good sign. (I also read there Rate Your Professors reviews...ha ha). A few of the current students' work looks really interesting...but then a few of them seem almost like cliched art school types, if that makes sense (you've seen this sort of thing a million times before), and I really have to wonder how they were considered the strongest out of dozens of applications. Yup, it's all subjective but Cornell doesn't seem all that popular as an art school and perhaps I've seen why. Sorry to be so negative. If I do get in off the waitlist, I won't be accepting so there's one less for others who had a more positive experience there to worry about.

Greetings art crew: Former lurker, first post. So I applied to programs using this spreadsheet which lists ballpark funding for some schools: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qWCmafgtAJ7376ojOBZhznks0vhn_gjdDiRhCIgzRww/edit#gid=0 I just looked at the entry for Cornell and there's a note recently added that says Cornell students now have to pay $4,000 per year...like whaaaaa? I applied there because I thought it was fully funded and I didn't apply to Yale because I thought they weren't fully funded. Ugh. if anyone has any info on Cornell's funding status, please do let me know.