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    MFA 2012 All Art ADMISSIONS freak-out forum!!!!!!!!

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    Debt is probably 40-50k in tuition and whatever living expenses you take out. Jobs are easy to get in the school, but they usually don't pay much (less than the TAs).

    SAIC is really selective for photography too. I am in a photo seminar now so I hear some departmental gossip.

    Museum experience can be really valuable though, I might go with that if you get the chance.

    SAIC. If you go there, the goal wouldn't be to sink, it would be just the opposite. If you think you have what it takes to make the best work possible and get the most out of such an amazing program, you go. You got in because they saw potential and they felt they could work with you. It's SAIC's goal to have a student go on to do big things (makes their school more successful). With the big things comes $$, you can pay the loans back. Don't be a rabbit. Also, don't let your ego get in the way because you were accepted off the waitling list (maybe it didn't, but just saying). Christ, look at my list!

    I hope you go.

    MFA 2012 All Art ADMISSIONS freak-out forum!!!!!!!!

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    I would also wait for a better funding offer, an assistant curator from an internationally recognised gallery told me that your school choice shouldnt matter and that really yu will be judged on your work quality and only lazy curators choose artist for exhibition based on schools. :-/

    Girl, I love your work.

    MFA 2012 All Art ADMISSIONS freak-out forum!!!!!!!!

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    Heya All,

    So I'm still on the wait list at RISD. Sigh. Anyone else in the same boat? I've gotten into CalArts, which seems like a perfect fit for what I want in a program, but they don't have much funding for anyone...

    News? Updates?

    Rachel

    Yea I know how it is.. but I'm on waitinglist for a different dept.

    MFA 2012 All Art ADMISSIONS freak-out forum!!!!!!!!

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    Congrats to the accepted! Best of luck, but I am not one of them. Sulking in coming to terms with a second round, I offer my thoughts on non-acceptance.

    Often, it is the case that success is not contingent upon a matter of time dedicated to improvement towards prefection of personal interest, but rather upon doing what others like or prefer. Like many of us, I have spent a great deal of time and study trying to nourish my practice, my ideas, and my artwork with my own interests. Evidently, dedication is optimistic bullshit. Those who were accepted may disagree, claiming dedication is what got them accepted. But this is a fallacy, it may be the case that your work, by accident, catered to the commitee and they liked it. If dedication to personal interests is the key, then most all of us should be accepted. If dedication is worth any value of success, it must be dedication to serving the interests of others. Here is to the non-accepted, Cheers!

    And to add to this: the deciders at these programs are looking through a pool of other candidates' works. (I'm painting, so my thoughts come from that standpoint..) Out of 500 or so aplications, you get categories: abstract, landscape, figurative, neo-surreal etc. From there you get sub categories of subject matter: identity dealing with the artist's race (black, asian, white, native american, latino etc.), feminism, fascination with the entertainment industry. The point is, we are learning and studying our contemporaries. We attempt to create unique work, yet we fit into categories. If we don't get into a program (or any of our wanted programs) it isn't because our work is shit, it's because of the odds that we do not have control over.

    MFA 2012 All Art ADMISSIONS freak-out forum!!!!!!!!

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    Is anyone else a bit disappointed that none of the schools that ranked for "Painting and Drawing" are located in any western or pacific states except for California?

    Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Washington, Arizona. You would think those would be the PERFECT setting for great art schools. But somehow, all the ones with top painting and drawing programs got stuck in the major metropolitan areas (and states). I understand big cities have their artistic benefits, but as a person who gets most of their inspiration from nature...I personally need some (western/pacific) options that are a little less metropolitan.

    Just imagine...a first-class art school at the top of the Rocky Mountains, or nested within a deeply forested National Park, or at the edge of the Grand Canyon? Sounds like a good idea right?

    This does not sound like a good idea. Please don't take this the wrong way, I don't mean to crush any dreams or hopes for living in a peaceful and beautiful local but I don't think there would be any galleries/exposure on the top of the Rockies or in any forest. If you want to have a career as an artist, you need to place yourself in the heart of the beast. NY, L.A., Chicago, Texas, Boston, Florida, Washington DC, SF.. these are all hot spots. If you really want to give yourself an advantage, go to places like London, China, Brazil, France, Germany (I know some of you are going to respond with things like, "it's not just about selling," or "not every amazing artist lived in any of these places." All true, but, if you think about the competition for the field we have chosen (which continues to steadily rise year after year) it would be smart to take up more of a business stance to all of this.

    Unless you are quilting, making watercolors of deer for a state fair or designing signs for local lawn mowing businesses, you need to be in a place where there's an art hub and community.

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