<p>I'm looking for good, accredited art schools that are lesser known and on the cheaper side, who might be more willing to give scholarships to new students. In particular I'm looking for schools with good illustration and fine arts departments. I have a 3.7 unweighted GPA, an 1870 on the SAT, and a portfolio I've been told by reviewers is "on the right track". I've also taken art courses at SCAD for a couple of summers. I live in Florida but anywhere around the country is ok, regular colleges with good art programs are good as well.</p>
<p>I'm already applying to SCAD, SAIC, VCU Arts, California College of the Arts, Ringling, UF, UCF, Kansas City Art Institute, RISD, and maybe MICA as well as Art Institute of Boston.</p>
<p>Since you are in Florida, take a look at the art department at Flagler College. The G.D. department has been doing pretty well, perhaps the fine arts classes might interest you. Flagler is also very very very affordable.</p>
<p>Check out Kendall College of Art and Design at Ferris State University (they’re part of Ferris but operate completely separate the day after you fill out your application). They’re located in Michigan. They are 23 thousand for out of state applicants but have generous scholarships for students with good portfolios and good academics.</p>
<p>Make sure you apply for VCU honors. It looks like you may be eligible. Also, scholarship deadline is 12/1 and we have at least two students from last year that received very good money from them–one out of state. This seems to be based on academics, but I also suspect that the scholarship essay was important too. My S only had a 3.5 but he also took a lot of APs.</p>
<p>D’s friend got a nice scholarship to Kendall. Check out MCAD in Minneapolis, D is there for illustration and loves it! Also, $-wise, Northern Michigan University in Marquette had great merit aid, especially for out of state students. They have a brand new building dedicated just to the art program. A poster in this board has a D that goes there, and maybe can give more details. New Hampshire Institute of Art is VERY reasonable and gave my D great merit aid, but she wanted a little larger school and more of a city experience.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone, what about the Moore College of Art and Design? I think it’s in Philadelphia…Does anyone know anyone who is going there/went there and thinks it’s good?</p>
<p>Based on what i remember reading, VCU honors college SAT should be over 1950, but there is room for wiggle if other factors are considered. I second the check out the VCU suggestion.</p>
<p>Ringling is definitely not going to be on the “cheaper side”. Forgot to mention Milwaulkee Institute of Art & Design. Don’t know about aid there tho.</p>
<p>I know some kids that have gone to Moore. It is considered a good school but mostly female. Not sure whether that is an issue. If you are considering Philadelphia, University of the Arts has a very good Illlustration program.</p>
<p>Hey redbug! Yeah Northern Mich Univ is a far way from florida! We had a whole group of students from Brazil last winter and it was so much fun seeing them handle snow for first time. memories for a lifetime!
D is doing good in drawing and painting. She will stay another year and tag on a BA in art education to her BFA to enable her to teach. it’s like 4 classes plus a student teaching experience. Smart kid to start thinking about jobs. So she minored in film studies and wants to use storyboarding in work at some point that combines the drawing and film. </p>
<p>The art and design school has the most amount of students in it’s major. The tuition only went up 5% or so, and my 529 plan went up 9% or so. I won finally!</p>
<p>D loves it there. She is vegan and the upper pennesula is full of veggies and vegans. Who knew?</p>
<p>T-CPA: Glad to hear she’s doing well. It will be interesting for my D when the snow really hits in Minn. First time she really saw it on the ground was when we did the college tours up north in April. And it wasn’t that cold (30’s). She’s in for a surprise. She loves the school tho and is very busy, so that will help thru those dark winter days.</p>
<p>SMFA isn’t exactly a lesser known art school nor is it the cheapest but they do have a very high admission rate (around 80%) and offer a lot of merit based scholarship money.</p>