MFA 2025 Freak Out Forum

[mmav]

10 hours ago, blasphemousbunny said:

Update:

- SAIC is giving me 35% merit & grant money, leaving me to take out 65% in loans.

- CalArts is giving me 60% in merit-scholarship money, leaving me to take out 40% in loans. 
 

- Hunter is financially feasible. I’m still worried that it’s not going to have facilities to support the full extent of sculpture/performance/installation that I work in. 
 

Can someone who’s gone through these schools add perspective?  

If you can, maybe reach out to the graduate coordinators at both schools and ask them to connect you with current grads who are in similar disciplines. Talking to current grad students really helped me get the real unpolished picture of the realities of a program. 

[spider16]

I was accepted to 3 programs and got merit scholarships from 2 of them ($25k and $9k) but no merit scholarship at the third, which is by far my top choice. Only found out I didn’t get any funding at my top choice program today, and the deposit deadline is in 2 weeks. Is it too late to try to negotiate? the school that gave me $25k is ranked higher, can I use it as leverage? is it even worth trying to negotiate if I wasn’t offered any merit scholarship to begin with? taking any and all advice on negotiating funding 

[Leee3]

4 hours ago, spider16 said:

I was accepted to 3 programs and got merit scholarships from 2 of them ($25k and $9k) but no merit scholarship at the third, which is by far my top choice. Only found out I didn’t get any funding at my top choice program today, and the deposit deadline is in 2 weeks. Is it too late to try to negotiate? the school that gave me $25k is ranked higher, can I use it as leverage? is it even worth trying to negotiate if I wasn’t offered any merit scholarship to begin with? taking any and all advice on negotiating funding 

no harm to try, I would say just go for it.

[nanaaaa]

has anyone heard back from parsons for fine arts? I'm still waiting on a decision and it already feels very late considering its already April 😭

[sillygooseart]

nvm

Edited Wednesday at 12:51 PM by sillygooseart
Problem solved

[Cowbot]

Anyone else committing to Yale?

[boltcutter]

Anyone committed to RISD Sculpture? 

[tryinggg]

Has anyone been accepted at UF? I'm waitlisted there and trying to gauge how close they are to finalizing their cohort for next year. Any information would be so helpful

[kamlee]

Anyone committed to RISD Graphic Design? 

[weatherrelated]

Is anyone passing on Yale painting? Asking for a friend on the waitlist.

[intheclerb]

I'm right on the edge of declining my offer to Columbia, but I'm worried it's the wrong call. I just can't stomach the debt- I would be taking out like 100k in addition to my 40k in undergrad debt. Am I making a huge mistake if I back out?