Itty Bitty

Hi Eric, Thank you so much for thoughtful response. It is very helpful. Did you feel like you got enough one on one and hands on time and attention from your SAIC mentor during the fall and winter sessions of the Low Residency program? This is such a tough call because I like each school for various reasons. Both will be about the same financial commitment when considering duration of the program, granted monies, and relocating to the respective cities. Both are highly regarded schoolds. Both have professors I would like to study with. The biggest difference I can see so far is: 1. The size of the program. SAIC has 22-30 people in their low res program, which will give more exposure to colleagues but seems like less attention from Mentors during the summer. MICA has 8 students in the program which would seemingly give a lot more attention and exposure to the students, but is a smaller pool of people one meeets during the summer. 2. The SAIC mentor program when arriving home (Los Angeles) will be someone potentially from a different field, and we cannot meet these mentors until the fall, but they will be in ones region so they will be home site visits. At MICA my mentor would be one of the people with whom I interviewed. That mentor will be at the program in the summer (and in my field), along with others and the students can have three in one summer. Then in the fall the student continues to have the same mentor with them virtually, and brings progress to Baltimore in January but no home visits All in all that mentor will be with the same student for all four year. So they get to know the work better, but they are not in your home location at all. 3. Length, and of course SAIC is 3 summers and MICA is 4 summers. 4 summers seems like a long time. Thank you again for all of your input. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your respone. Best, Leah

SAIC versus MICA for Low Residency Studio MFA? Anyone have an opinion?

Hi All, I have applied to the Lo Res MFA programs in Fine Arts / Interdisicplinary at SAIC, MICA, Mass Art and Bard. I was accepted at SAIC, and interviewed at MICa and MassArt. I am leaning towards SAIC and MICA. Does any one have any feelings or know the reputation of any of these schools, specifically SAIC and MICA? Thanks!