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I think you should research your program first, as I know, most schools can accept online portfolio, at least, CD is fine. Of course you need one camera, DSLR is easy for make digital one. Slide is good for old school, hiwever, it is not popular under digital days. For process, the color you should correct with APPLE MAC LCD and RGB.

Nathan, as I know, most Universities have funding and Ta to assist graduate students to study Fine Arts or Studio Art. I saw your photos via flickr, I have no idea if you want to go to Art Schools, I think most your works were inspired by commercial style (I mean Visual rendering), try some schools like New Mexico U, Tulane, WashU, UNLV,wvu, ohio u ETC, I am sure they have best funding for every graduate student. http://www.mfadirectory.com/main.htm try this online based resource for Photo MFA programs, you can refer most schools' web link and info. Good luck for your Round 2, BTW, why don't you go abroad for couple of months to take a rest and take documentary photos. I will present my photos when i traveled at Tibet five years ago at one Fine Arts School in Asia this summer. I have wonderful life experience when I been there, and I used Fuji S3 pro and Fuji film camera, no PS, I mean original( not picture, the nature and the life). Now, I have a new camera Pentax 20D, but I don't have time to take more photos, so, consider what I siad.

Hi SSap, You are right! I think you would get good offer through round 2 rolling, you have enough time to prepare your application, enhance your experience and make a stronger portfolio, especially, you will get sense about how to follow the rule of the game or apperceive that who is the person the school want to hire. I have been studied at U.S for some years, and got worked at professional area in Euro before I came into States. However, I was totally failed at round 1 of Undergraduate Application. Actullay, I got admission from Calarts,UCLA,USC that year, don't ask why I didn't go, you know that. So, I took the risk to applied for next year. I got admissions plus FA from Midd,Bard,Yale(Photo),Stanford(EA) ,NYU, Wharton(Under) and etc. I shift my life to the new area, sculpture and 3D when I met my prof from Alfred, I will start my application for MFA program this summer, so good luck and hope you could get into somewhere you really want to go and $$$$$$$$.