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    MFA Painting 2009 has anyone heard back yet?

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    thanks mtung for your encouraging words. it's just hard to grasp what just happened in the last year from intensive researching, to gathering my materials...the whole application process and just the waiting.....I'm glad you heard some good news this time around. I wish you the best in your endeavors. :)

    Not that it is much of a consolation, but I've been there before, and honestly, I think I'm going to get far more out of grad school now than I would have had I gotten in the first round. Time out of school to focus on my work and the thinking behind it, as well as distance from the application process and an opportunity to reflect upon it has been really great for me and my work, despite a great deal of frustration and often feeling like I am drifting. If and when you decide to apply again, you'll probably look back at your application from this round and see a million things wrong with it, I know I was shaking my head at a lot of what I submitted my first time around when I looked back upon it before working on this years applications. Having a rough go around that first time has also steeled me against the blows of this whole process, which made it a lot easier to apply this year; I still got a lot of rejections, but I was prepared, and thankfully in the end it worked out. Also, don't forget there is a lot of bullshit involved in the whole process that you can do nothing about, nepotism, and all that fun stuff. It can be discouraging if you let it, but it can help you, too, if you realize that much of the time a rejection has nothing to do with the quality of your work or application, it is such a crap-shoot at times. It is totally devastating to get a full round of rejections (at least it was for me!), but just don't think of it as a nail in your coffin! Best of luck if you apply again, and in whatever endeavors come between now and then.

    the unforeseen reality of no acceptances

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    haley-

    Yes I agree, I was astounded by everyone's thoughtful and helpful comments, or even bothering the efforts to give me their opinions and experience.

    Haley- also, thank you so much for that animal prospectus show- the deadline is like...NOW but I will most definitely get it postmarked out- sounds like a perfect fit! :)

    I wanted to say though, yes I am just coming out of my BFA. But I have many experiences to which you are all referring to. I have worked many jobs in lieu of gaining a wealth of professional experience in the common world such a being a manager at 18 and assistant manager at an art store for several years of my life. I didn't go to college right away, I spent 2 years working, and continued to work while in school holding such jobs as a gallery assistant to two galleries, art library assistant, assistant to a curator for a major exhibition at a major local gallery, assistant to the director of a visiting artists program....all while showing at local galleries in group and juried shows. A little over a year ago in my fourth year at CIA I had an amazing opportunity in which I was selected to show in a 3 person exhibition at a gallery showing with other prominent artists in their 60s! Then followed by my first solo exhibition at a main gallery downtown, because the director had seen my work at the 3 person show and was impressed. I have many other major curating experiences at SPACES gallery, and am currently the director/coordinator of an art benefit I am going to put on at MOCA Cleveland to benefit Animal Welfare organizations in June.

    I know there are many skilled still to be acquired, but I have much experience in the real world away from the Institution, and not school related.

    I just wasn't sure if those commenting were aware of my personal and professional history.

    I am the only student in the last few years in the painting department that has been actively engaging outside out the school in other art endeavors to further my personal and professional life.

    Either way, I think everyone's suggestions and comments are valid and much appreciated, as I am taking them into consideration while attempting to address a plan C. :)

    the unforeseen reality of no acceptances

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    Thanks for the suggestions, comments, kind words of encouragement. I have applied to SCAD as a plan b. Yes, yes I know...all of the weird rumors and such that has been said about SCAD, but I think I don't buy into it, and it's really all about what you make of it. So pending hearing word from them, it could be okay.

    A huge reason why I'm going straight into an MFA or want to for that matter has to do with a massive regrettable amount of loans. I have over, well. I shouldn't even say....it's something somehow that's accumulated to over 200k for 5 years of undergrad at CIA and living and housing expenses. Do I regret it, yes of course...(not my education, but the way I lived my life...very frugally) but there's no erasure of it...and the idea of how much monthly I'd have to fork over would be far from what I would make at any job per month....so I feel the NEED to stay in school, to postpone the burden with hopes of making better and new connections to arrive somewhere better than now.

    Now, by far this is not why I want to get an MFA. It is why I want to right after I graduate in May.

    I have far more deeper concerns of why an MFA is important to me.

    But alas, the reality of rejection puts me in a weird boat of what I should do.....Of course if I got accepted to SCAD with no funding whatsoever I would not relive my CIA financial experience all over again, and would decline.

    I sometimes think about how I wish I could have changed the way I lived the last 5 years to not be in this situation of feeling the need to go to grad school immediately, but I cannot dwell on my financial choices from the past, I can only move forward in a more frugal and insightful manner. by making informed financial decisions.

    I truly believe in continuing to make work, as even the work I've been working on for my BFA thesis is far more developed than the work submitted for grad school...so it can only get better...and of course out of the institutional setting, more free.

    I definitely so want to challenge myself, even if scad doesn't work in my favor....but how does one do so with the burden of excessive loan debt? can one delay paying back a loan by going into a residency? I am just wondering besides grad school then, because you delay loans by staying in school...are there other options?

    I feel embarrassed about even mentioning the ridiculousness and absurdity of my loan debt in lieu of needing pursuing an MFA immediately...but it is this dark black cloud with acid rain that is going to become a reality soon if i do not postpone it somehow.

    But anyways, thanks for checking out my work youthtoast.

    And thanks to brosenth and barth for your comments and suggestions.

    I've gotta keep my head up.

    the unforeseen reality of no acceptances

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    what do you do? i know you hear the "apply next year" thing. but it's hard to even think about going through the process again. i know some of you are 2nd timers, but how did you deal with this reality? it feels way worse of a failure than it probably is, and I know the process is subjective, but it's hard to put the pieces together.

    MFA Admission Replies - short and simple

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    Update:

    All painting and drawing, except for Hunter, which is drawing/works on paper/print, and I'm in NY.

    SAIC: Interviewed 3/8, thought it went well, but haven't heard anything yet.

    Hunter: Interviewed yesterday (3/14), thought it went disastrously(!), waiting.

    Columbia: officially rejected via post.

    Tyler: rejected via website.

    UCLA: presumed rejection.

    UPenn: presumed rejection.

    RISD: presumed rejection.

    VCU: nothing.

    MICA, Hoffberger: nothing, though wondering if those phone calls above mean this should move into presumed rejection status?

    MICA, Mount Royal: nothing.

    Definitely feeling a lot less positive about the whole game than I was at this point a month ago...

    i haven't heard anything from hoffberger either, and was really curious about some other post that mentioned timothy app calling him for an interview......chris the grad advisor told me i should hear something on or around march 20th.

    Deadlines

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    as far as I know most of the latest deadlines were Feb. 15th. I don't know of any mfa programs with rolling admissions, but maybe someone else does. MFA programs are very competitive. I sent in all my apps in December even if deadlines were in Feb. What program are you looking into?

    MFA Painting 2009 has anyone heard back yet?

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    So UT austin, and the rejection letter last week and all...........and my status JUST changed online today saying "We have received all credentials required to process your application. Your file has been forwarded to the Graduate Committee for review." ...not rejected? what gives? why would they update it that and not we regret to inform you.

    is that odd? or is it just me hoping they made a mistake? :?:

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