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woops! painting/printmaking

It felt pretty standard for me, said they were asking everyone the same 5 questions. I had two of their critic faculty (Matt Keegan and Marta Kuzma) but not sure if more Artist/Professors are doing interviews too. Something like: 1) Here's your portfolio, what's something that excites you about your practice? 2) What can you contribute to the Yale community? 3) Yale is a research university, how would that benefit your practice? 4) Why Yale? 5) Pedagogy is an important part of the experience of attending Yale - How does pedagogy inform your work? The last question threw me a little since I felt like the wording was nonspecific or i had trouble interpreting what exactly they meant, but they seemed satisfied nonetheless with me talking about courses I would want to take, faculty I was excited about, and participating in critique and how I do so. The rest of the questions they asked were follow ups on things that I said, some of which were nitpicky but overall they came off as nice, thoughtful, and engaged even though I was at the end of their day. I wouldn't be too worried about it as long as you prepare. Hope this helps

UC Berkeley doesn't do interviews as far as I know (went to undergrad there and have several friends who went through their MFA prog). They just call to let you know if you got in - so no news probably means they are still evaluating.

Curious to hear more about your experience in the interview and how this matched with alum testimonies too. Was there specific comments that were made during the interview that you felt were in line with what alum experienced? My interview with them was extremely concise and impersonal, and I ultimately got waitlisted, but I also don't know anyone that is an alum of the program. If you'd like to share I'd love to hear!

Congratulations! I just found out I was waitlisted - do you think you are going to attend? Always so curious about the amount of people accepted that actually end up going. I know for myself I'm currently getting interviewed at Yale and SAIC so everything's very much up in the air.