greengrass

🫡 okay so my finances are COMPLICATED. So take everything with a grain of salt. That being said I have gone to yale open studios and a crit and got to talk to at least 5 people about the finances and it seems like everyone is in about the same boat as far as the funding goes. It’s all need based and no matter what, you have to give them your parents finances as well, which i think is just trying to get everyone on a level playing field? But also i kind of hate it even if I understand it. So tuition is 46,000 a year and then books and supplies they estimate is 6,000, 3,000 health insurance (that you can wave if you have other health insurance), they estimate housing and food at 17,000 for a year. I know a lot of students get the full price of tuition (the max you can get), I wasn’t sure what to expect bc as I said pretty complicated financials but i got about 75% of tuition paid for. So like when you compare it to UCONN or VCU where your tuition is paid for and you’re getting a stipend it may not be as appealing. But compared to RISD?? Where tuition is 60,000? and scholarships are not great? and that doesn’t include cost of living? forget it. (got in last year and was sort of shocked by the assistance offered and how highly they thought of themselves??) Also nice bc living expenses in New Haven are a lot more palatable than say NYC. I would pretty confidently say most people coming from a middle class or lower middle class background get 75% to 100% tuition paid. I was also given a work study option for 3,000 but I haven’t totally looked into it.

I’ll be going for photo!

I still don’t have my aid package details? might email them later today and see what’s up.

I’m pretty sure you have to fill out the same paper work next year for the 25-26 school year. So it’d only be for the one year. 90% sure.

i don’t have anything yet either.

okay got a real update from yale!!

gonna try and ignore it for now i guess?

Just saw it. Says April 2023 for me though?

same. don’t know if it’s just photo being slow? I also looked it up and looks like last year people got snail mail rejected nearing the end of april?? 😳

I’ve worn jeans and a sweater and felt pretty good about it. Very stressful though.

I still haven’t heard anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I had kind of written myself off but does make me feel a bit more optimistic if others have also not heard?

for what it’s worth if you look at previous years some people think their yale interviews went great and don’t get in and some think it absolutely crashed and burned and get in. I wouldn’t totally write it off yet.

I applied to Notre Dame, Wayne state, VCU, and yale. all photo concentrations.

I’ve had several schools ask me this question and it has thrown me way off almost every time. Last year yale asked me if i had applied to other schools and I was like uh yeah i have and started to list them and they were all like UH WE DONT WANT TO KNOW THAT??? and i was like oh uh okay nvm????? This was after interviewing with risd that did want to know, by name, the other schools I had applied for. I feel like each school is asking for different reasons and good luck at figuring out which particular reason for each school.

Yeah I got an invite friday night. If you look at past years (or even this year just the other departments) it seems that that’s how Yale rolls. Yale does have a waitlist but it’s made up of people they interview, just like most schools. Which is why it drives me crazy schools won’t just reject you when they send out invites. Like would a school really go back and invite people to interview? Do enough people bomb interviews? idk