MFA 2022 Freak Out Forum

[Salsasanasa]

University of Wisconsin Madison - reject ?

[tomatoriot]

10 minutes ago, Salsasanasa said:

University of Wisconsin Madison - reject ?

Same. ?

[Frank14]

2 hours ago, starcrumbz said:

crickets from irvine... which CSU? Are you an OC local too? Also, I realized it was not u that made chicano art, so sorry about that confusion in my response to one of your earlier posts about MICA. 

No worries at all! On that note I've kind of considered removing MICA from the running, to me it just doesn't make sense financially ? 

At least most people have heard crickets so far! That makes me hopeful I haven't been completely removed from the running ?

[slickjaketheruler]

1 hour ago, tomatoriot said:

Same. ?

As well ?

[slickjaketheruler]

Just received an offer from Lamar Dodd with a full tuition remission and stipend.

The rest are:

MECA: accepted 50% tuition scholarship

Tyler: Interviewed 2/5

Rutgers: Rejected

UT Knoxville: Rejected

UW Madison: Rejected

CMU: Rejected 

VCU: ……crickets……

[nonamerequired]

10 hours ago, SurfsUp said:

Hi all, have been lurking and thought to make an account and post here. I applied to 5 nyc studio art programs and so far, I've done interviews for NYU Steinhardt and Parsons. Pratt is scheduled for next week. Got rejected from Hunter, and still have yet to hear from Columbia. 

I've only seen one person post about having gotten interview invitation for Columbia painting department and from looking at past years' posts, different departments send out invites at different times and are kinda late. That's to say I'm anxiously waiting to hear from moving image. Would love to hear if anyone else has received news from Columbia.

Received an interview invite for moving image last week

[SurfsUp]

4 minutes ago, nonamerequired said:

Received an interview invite for moving image last week

Ah I see. Thanks for sharing that info.

[reddish]

2 hours ago, Salsasanasa said:

University of Wisconsin Madison - reject ?

Same here!

[annaconda]

2 hours ago, Salsasanasa said:

University of Wisconsin Madison - reject ?

same! Madison painting reject 

[HJAn]

3 hours ago, Strawberrycat said:

Sorry to hear that! Yeah, you really never know. My interview with them felt a little off, despite them saying some positive things about my work, so I'm not super surprised for myself. I think, too, with only interviewing with 2 out of so many faculty, part of it can really depend on who you end up interviewing with and who is pushy about who getting in. There are a lot of factors. It does make me nervous about other places, though. They're the first I've heard from post-interview. 

Yeah, I was surprised to find out the day of the interview that the faculty would be simultaneously interviewing so many students. I think most of my other interviews, it was the director of the program along with some other faculty interviewing everyone. Also, SAIC by far has the biggest class size (about 20 for sculpture alone), so in a way I expected better chance than some of the more smaller programs that only admit like 5 students lol. 

Anyways, I'm sure you'll get some good news soon! Best of luck!

[annaconda]

1 hour ago, slickjaketheruler said:

Just received an offer from Lamar Dodd with a full tuition remission and stipend.

Congrats on Georgia!! I wish I were in your shoes! 

[AncientQuail]

ranked fourth on the waitlist for printmaking at UW-Madison

[RyanV]

12 hours ago, SurfsUp said:

Hi all, have been lurking and thought to make an account and post here. I applied to 5 nyc studio art programs and so far, I've done interviews for NYU Steinhardt and Parsons. Pratt is scheduled for next week. Got rejected from Hunter, and still have yet to hear from Columbia. 

I've only seen one person post about having gotten interview invitation for Columbia painting department and from looking at past years' posts, different departments send out invites at different times and are kinda late. That's to say I'm anxiously waiting to hear from moving image. Would love to hear if anyone else has received news from Columbia.

I interviewed with Columbia Tuesday for Photography, it was a lightning round interview 10 questions with exactly 20 minutes. I was left with 2 minutes to ask about the program. They said it would be in the coming weeks to hear back. I hope weeks means soon ??

[HJAn]

3 minutes ago, RyanV said:

I interviewed with Columbia Tuesday for Photography, it was a lightning round interview 10 questions with exactly 20 minutes. I was left with 2 minutes to ask about the program. They said it would be in the coming weeks to hear back. I hope weeks means soon ??

I keep feeling like broken record but... anyone heard from Columbia's Sculpture program? It seems just about every other departments sent out interviews but sculpture...

[annaconda]

1 hour ago, AncientQuail said:

ranked fourth on the waitlist for printmaking at UW-Madison

Hm well that's better than most of us!! lol Will you hold out for that or go for Minnesota? And RISD financial confusion... you have lots to think about. I feel brain explosion for you but also happy that you have options!! 

[gizmo]

If anyone is waiting to hear back from Purchase (Visual Arts), I checked today and the portal was updated on 2/22.  Did not get in but an e-mail about the update would have been nice.

[Anxietyismymiddlename]

Do the evaluators actually read the SOPs and descriptions for the pieces in the portfolio? I wonder how they evaluate. I had heavy descriptions for my pieces and I feel that might've been a drawback. Any thoughts on this?

On 2/25/2022 at 4:03 AM, HJAn said:

I actually got interview invite for Pratt integrated media earlier today. Which came as a surprise since I made a mistake when editing my SOP for Pratt and forgot to remove another school's name....and I realized my mistake after I already submitted. Perhaps they didn't ready it at all? LOL ?

well if they didn't read it yet, they probably will now... 

 

[chunkeymonkey]

Just now, chunkeymonkey said:

Hi everyone! As decisions start rolling in, I wanted to hear people's thoughts on different Sculpture MFA programs. I haven't heard back from most of my programs - UCLA, VCU, Carnegie Mellon, UPenn, RISD and Northwestern. I think as of now top contenders for me are UCLA and VCU. Where did everyone else apply to? What are everyone's thoughts on the programs? 

Hi all Sculpture applicants! I set up a new topic to discuss programs/ interview tips/ etc! Would love to hear people's thoughts on different sculpture programs especially VCU and UCLA 

[KougamiAkane]

Anyone who have heard about MICA?

I applied for their MFA graphic design program and still didn't received an interview, will that means I will be rejected?

[Hjuoollpphhfcvn]

Chunkymonkey how can we find the new thread? Thanks! 

[artcat]

5 minutes ago, Hjuoollpphhfcvn said:

Chunkymonkey how can we find the new thread? Thanks! 

I clicked on ChunkyMonkeys name and it took me to all their posts and I found it there

 

[whitewhales]

17 hours ago, slickjaketheruler said:

Just received an offer from Lamar Dodd with a full tuition remission and stipend.

The rest are:

MECA: accepted 50% tuition scholarship

Tyler: Interviewed 2/5

Rutgers: Rejected

UT Knoxville: Rejected

UW Madison: Rejected

CMU: Rejected 

VCU: ……crickets……

Congratulations!! I was this ?? close to applying but I need to be close to a coastline. Such an awesome program. ???

[slickjaketheruler]

2 minutes ago, whitewhales said:

Congratulations!! I was this ?? close to applying but I need to be close to a coastline. Such an awesome program. ???

As someone who was raised in Jersey with a family in the coast guard, I feel that really hard right now. 

[flowr]

This might be too specific, but has anyone reached out to SAIC about negotiating funding? I was accepted into their ATS department with ~20% need based funding, but their tuition is super expensive. I was accepted into another program with full funding so I was going to email and try to negotiate, but not sure who I should reach out to--the department, financial services, admissions generally? Does anyone have experience with this?

[hibiscusleaves]

1 hour ago, KougamiAkane said:

Anyone who have heard about MICA?

I applied for their MFA graphic design program and still didn't received an interview, will that means I will be rejected?

all mica gd interviews were concluded last week, so i guess it's a reject