tee_lemon

Did anyone end up applying to Carnegie Mellon?

Got accepted into MICA MA program! Still waiting it out for the MFA program but will be taking it up even if I don't get accepted!
Sent rejects out to UIC and NCSU.

My final results for MFA in Fine Arts:
Colorado State: Rejected
Columbus School of Art and Design: Accepted with TA ($3,000 stipend) and $10,000 scholarship.
MassArt: Accepted with TA ($2,000 stipend) and $2,000 Dean's scholarship.
Maine College of Art: Accepted with GA ($1,500 stipend) and $5,000 scholarship.
Portland State: Accepted with GA ($1,800 stipend), $10,000 Laurel's scholarship and full tuition remission.
SVA: Requested Interview, but I declined presuming I wouldn't get much funding. 
University at Buffalo: Accepted with TA ($14,704 stipend), full tuition remission and the Mark Diamond Research Grant designated for my thesis exhibition.
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee: Rejected
VCU: Rejected
I think I'm set on Buffalo! I don't think I could ever come close to a better offer than that and I also connect very well with the painting faculty in their department. I'm excited and nervous for the big move! But I feel confident that Buffalo is the right decision for me. Upstate New York will be way different than Oklahoma, but here goes nothing! 
Hope everyone is starting to relax after all the stress and setting sights on a plan! I'd love to hear where everyone is thinking of going! ?

I’ll be there for Rinehart! ☺️

Oh my gosh thanks for the advice! I didn’t think that was even a possibility! 

Anyone heard anything from NYU? I think they said we’d hear sometime this week when I interviewed ???

I have decided to enroll in RISD's three-year graphic design program. (For those of you concerned about cost, ASK FOR MORE MONEY! I was given 20k more by RISD basically with the snap of the fingers.)
I spend the last 1.5 hours sending rejections to CalArts, MICA, Parsons, Pratt, RCA and SVA. If you've been waitlisted at those, I hope you get offered a spot now!

@Pallavi.Daga

Who all is going to the graduate visit day for MICA next week?? I'd love to meet up! Anyone headed there for Rinehart? 

Piggy backing off of tee_lemon's post, ha. 
Anyone going to the SMFA Admitted Student Day this weekend??

Who all is going to the graduate visit day for MICA next week?? I'd love to meet up! Anyone headed there for Rinehart? 

I wrote a poem for you all after a year of applications to grants/ open calls/ 2 interviews at VCU and RISD that resulted in a rejection and waitlisted status.     —————————————————————     We regretfully encourage you to apply to our online print institution with a cv, slideroom sacrifice, numbered explanations of your sense of criticality, and a brief statement explaining the origins of your rigor in contemporary practice.    Due to the volume of applicants we will be unable to tell you wether you were selected or not. A full faculty interview panel will be planned to gender reveal your destiny via Skype if the panel selection includes your final application.    Please reach in if you have questions.  Thank you.   Departmental chair  

Personally, I would go with the free school unless their program seems super bad, which I would doubt since why would you apply there in the first place?  Then again, if the debt-burden school is in an area you plan to stay and build a career in, then you do have a tough decision ahead of you. Of course, this depends on the amount of debt... $20k or so is manageable to me if the program is that much better. Any higher and I would have to consider whether it is really worth it. Just my two cents. Good luck. 

I personally will take out a loan for school so that I can comfortably live while having sufficient supplies to work on my practice.
But for me, I am extremely low income and could not have received a higher education without loans, so I really didn't have a choice.

Received UCLA Graduate Opportunity Fellowship today! 

Recieved a unofficial notification from UIC :
"We have recommended to the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Chicago that you be admitted with full graduate standing to the Master of Design (MDes) in Graphic Design program in the UIC School of Design.   Once the Graduate College confirms our decision and the UIC Office of Graduate Admissions verifies the receipt of all necessary credentials, you will receive official notification with further information.”   So anxious for the final admission letter! I hope they give out a little funding. ?

Got an acceptance letter from Pratt Communications Design program! However, there's no mention of funding in the acceptance letter, Does anyone know if they give it out later or this means, I'm not eligible for a funding? NY is too expensive for me otherwise. ?
But I'm really happy and excited for this! ?

Got accepted to MICA Hoffberger! With a merit scholarship. Unfortunately wayyyy out of my price range still unless I can source further funding, so it's likely a no-go. But it is a real confidence boost to have been accepted into such a selective programme, so very grateful to them.

Did they offer you any funding? I got a bit and I like the school a lot, but I’m not sure if it’s enough. 

Me too! Congratulations!
Baltimore is the most appealing city to me —  cheap and big!

Just got an acceptance email to MICA! Also just got an interview invite from Rutgers

Just got an email from MassArt to check my portal for a decision. 
Accepted to the 2D Find Arts program with a TA, Dean's scholarship and museum position?

Just answered my own question. Finally got my first acceptance!! So relieved ? Hope others are getting the good news too! 

Just was accepted into MICA Rinehart School of Sculpture with a wonderful scholarship. So overwhelmed, I still can’t believe it ??. 
Honestly thought my interview went horribly (also sick with a high fever and strep throat at the time). So I’m just still in complete shock by this acceptance!! Aghhh

Just answered my own question. Finally got my first acceptance!! So relieved ? Hope others are getting the good news too! 

Just answered my own question. Finally got my first acceptance!! So relieved ? Hope others are getting the good news too!