Bluebluepie

Aha, thank you for bringing this to my attention.

Oh wow, I would have never imagined these physical exchanges would happen... Seems like intense emotions are at play during these crits...good and bad. Yea, it's healthy to soak in the good advice. And forget comments that stem from negatively charged personal emotions.

That would be very helpful information. Just saw this from a 06' article: "So are there really tears? "It does happen on occasion," said Gareth James, chairman of the visual arts program at Columbia University in New York, "but we try to make sure we are not just handing down judgments. These conversations are really about trying to get inside the internal logic of a work." -Jori Finkel (Tales From the Crit: For Art Students, May Is the Cruelest Month) Thank you for the links. I will definitely be reading through them!

Does anyone know how Columbia's Visual Arts MFA group crit compares to Yale's Painting/Printmaking MFA pit crit...in terms of intensity?

Thank you so much for sharing! It's useful to know. ? Also it's remarkable that you were offered an interview. Crossing fingers for you! Haha same here. A lot of helpful info!

Can't imagine what it must feel like. ? oh I also somehow assumed people who weren't able to make it into the final cohort are automatically placed on the waitlist if they interviewed... Does it just say in the letter that you "have been placed on the waitlist"?

I'm interested in hearing about Yale's interview. ? Thank you!

? I'm sorry to hear that. How many are usually waitlisted for the program? Hopefully you can join the cohort. ? Was this your second time applying to Yale (painting/printmaking)? If you don't mind sharing...would like to know what you felt was different in your second interview compared to your first? Crossing fingers.

Congrats on UCLA! ? Wishing you luck on Yale. ? If you are comfortable with sharing your thoughts on your interview I would love to know. Just curious, to hear what it's like...