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Hi all, I was trying to look for answers here a year ago myself so I thought i can help to answer some questions. I applied for RISD's digital media, NYU's ITP and UCLA's DMA and got into all 3. I'm currently in ucla. Some quick replies to questions i saw. UCLA - The DMA program on the MFA level is really more about media arts. That said, you are free to do what you want. There have been people doing visualizations, interfaces, games, media arts, fine arts, video arts etc. In my opinion doing a MFA really is about exploring different things and doing your own thing, rather than having people tell u what to do. In that aspect, dma is flexible. You can also choose to do individual studies with some of the faculty members ( Henri lucas, rebecca mendez for vis comm; casey reas for programming, interfaces, visualization, generative art etc etc) But if u want an environment where everyone is doing the same thing, this is not the place. cohort is small and everyone knows everyone. great funding packages if u do get in. RISD - From my experiences and exchanges with RISD's digital media, I think they too tend to focus more on new media art and to a lesser extent interaction design. Portfolio wise they definitely look for people with design background, media arts or computer sciences. ITP - i'm not sure if anyone is interested. funding is not great or none, but this is a good place to take many different interesting courses. cons - huge cohort, i didn't even have to do an interview to get in. not the place for people who wants an intimate environment.

hi ecm im not sure if it also applied to the arts program but i got accepted to the design media arts program and its an offer once u get accepted. You will get more merit based awards in year 2 i heard. so just go ahead and ask about it. It's a huge ass sum of money we're talking about.

oh hey i got accepted too but sadly the amount of financial aid they could give was lower than what ucla's dma offered. I was going to go risd if my nomination fr presidents scholarship went through + the fellowship. too bad i think i was 3 position away from it. lets keep in touch? i would love to visit .

any Design | Media Art acceptance for this fall?

I got accepted to UCLA's Design|Media Arts! But ya i think they dont send physical mails to international students. The only physical mail that i got out of the schools i applied to ucla, nyu, risd is RISD.