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AWESOME NEWS!!!! Good Job, Erpnope!!!

Thanks. This was really helpful to hear. I super appreciate it. Sux but so good to know that it almost makes up. Good luck with your other schools!

Has anyone heard anything from/about UCLA painting? Anyone had their references called? Been accepted? Anything? THANKS

Emoree - no problem. It showed up on my FB feed. I have NO idea what is up with his voice. Glad you enjoyed it.

http://youtu.be/t-4zzeQ4Zyc

I did my undergraduate at SAIC. The whole school is totally interdisciplinary but esp the grad school. You can do what ever you want and look for teachers in any department to work with. The teachers are used to students "mixing". And teachers work with teachers outside of their department to help a student. SAIC has been like this for decades++. If you question had been can i work outside the department that accepted me --YES. You can be admitted in painting and make sculpture the whole time. You can be admitted in printmaking and do performance the whole time. But you asked one layer deeper and the answer is that they are more than willing for you to work across departments they expect it and foster it. Its even prevalent in undergrad. Hope this helps.

Bengston. thank you very much! Have fun at Yale. :) And Congrats.

This was a thread on UCLA from page 16...sooooo you think painting doesn't interview either? I thought I read something once about skype interviews but then it may have been another California school and now I can't find it. Anyone know more about UCLA? I'm interested in painting and there looks like some photo people on here too... THANKS

Hi, Ponytailkate. Which school called your references?

Ok, I might have some information on SAIC. I did my undergrad there. It was a number of years ago but I worked as a student assistant for the Grad Department. Not everyone gets a post bac offer. There are LOTS of very very awesome things about SAIC. I'm going to say maybe critical things but please weigh in the good stuff yourself. The school is BIG. It's not like NYU or Columbia or even Yale art departments. It's BIG. The teachers run the departments but the school administrators run the school. The administrators have grown the school this big in the last 30 years. There are a lot of positives that come with being big: diversity, resources, etc. The thing is that they need to keep enrollment up because they cannot shrink. BUT the administration also listens to the teachers. The teachers (the administering teachers - re department chairs etc, tenured teachers) want to keep the level of students high. (I think they get a little paranoid about this but whatever) so to split the difference they offer the post bac to those they think have great potential but are not, say, up to the level (this can be lots of things) that they expect from their own undergraduates. As far as whether it's worth attending, I have no real opinion. I think you can rock it if you pick to do the post bac. Just take your self very seriously and everyone else will if not right away then eventually...which is the same advice I'd have for any grad student (me too hopefully.) ROCK ON AND GOOD LUCK.

You just made me happy and I'm very grateful. THANK YOU.

Awesome! Good for you!

I've decided that if i don't get into grad school it's a sign that I have all the critical input I need already. I don't care if that sounds naive. And I've decided that since I'll have all the critical input I need it is time for me to make the biggest (not necessary physically large), baddest, hardest, smartest series of paintings I can conceive of and push myself harder than I ever have before. Life is art, right? We may as well demonstrate that. Plus I think of all the artists who's work I really admire who never went to grad school. That makes me feel better too.

THANKS, Guys. It helps.

Awesome!! Good job!