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Hi! Looking for a female roommate for Yale in the fall... Thought this might be a good place to start. DM me if you're interested

Has anyone received their financial aid package from Yale yet? They said we would receive it approximately 14 days after we got the acceptance letter which would have been yesterday the 19th but I still haven't heard anything 😕

Thank you and absolutely! I applied to painting programs but I do a bit of sculpture, installation and photography as well. Also, every year you apply you are pushing yourself to create a ton of new work and update your artist statement- that alone is an accomplishment and pushes your practice immensely. Even if it doesn't result in an acceptance you are better than the year before because of it.

Hey all! I see some people disappointed in their offers or acceptances and I wanted to give you a little insight into my journey in applying to MFA programs for the past 4 years. First, the offers you get do not define your worth as an artist. Your creative practice is so much more than what meets the eye in these applications and you don’t need external validation to prove that your work is worthy. You are making art against all odds so therefore it just is! These schools are trying to create cohesive cohorts and need to diversify in a variety of different ways, making it so that very qualified candidates are not able to secure a spot in admission. Besides diversifying obvious factors like gender, race, age etc. they also factor in the type of art you make. They don’t want a cohort of 15 abstract artists because that doesn’t make for an interesting dialogue in critiques. So you may be someone they are really excited about but they can just not offer you a spot this year. It doesn’t mean that it won’t happen in the future. In my four years I applied to the following: Year one: 2020 Carnegie Mellon: rejection SAIC: acceptance, but hardly any financial aid RISD: rejection Tulane: rejection University of Georgia: rejection UCD: rejection Pratt: rejection The first year I was stoked on SAIC, but decided I didn’t want to go into debt for my MFA, so I waited until the following year. Year two: 2021 Yale: rejection UCLA- rejection SAIC: rejection RISD: rejection UT-Austin: rejection Tulane University: rejection Colombia: rejection I was very devastated my second year applying, but I knew it didn’t define me so I worked hard to come back with a stronger portfolio for next year. Year three: 2022 Rutgers: rejection RISD: rejection Yale: WAITLISTED Bard: rejection Hunter College: rejection SUNY Purchase: Waitlisted then accepted with almost full funding. This year I was so excited about being waitlisted from Yale. I felt like it was truly the perfect program for me and where I wanted to go in my work. I was also excited about SUNY Purchase, but Matt Bollinger who I wanted as my mentor was leaving. I decided to wait one last year and apply again. Year four: 2024 Yale: ACCEPTED RISD: rejected Hunter: rejected Rutgers: rejected Ultimately, I got accepted into Yale, my dream school. So the moral of the story here? DO NOT GIVE UP! You deserve a school that is the right fit for you. If you don’t have external factors keeping you from reapplying, it’s okay to try and try again! Many people end up deciding they might not even want to pursue and MFA and that is okay too. Regardless keep making your work and stay positive and good things will come to you!

Waitlisted at Yale for painting and haven't heard anything yet. Anyone know if the wait list tends to move?