<p>HAha, you got THAT right. (About waiting till April, I mean.)</p>
<p>Hang in there, weile. As the saying goes, "Good things happen to those who wait."</p>
<p>oh neat. they display them for the freshman orientation?
i just got the letter from risd today. so i'm in. and it seems...that's where i'll be going. but i can't be sure. it seems such an excellent choice. almost no downsides to it...except maybe the money...</p>
<p>(i had a hard time folding my drawings too...i laid them out and got a bit sentimental about it...the time i spent on them. almost couldn't bring myself to pack them away.)</p>
<p>Great news on your acceptance to RISD. I wondered in terms of admissions - grades, sat's etc. Did you feel it was your portfolio mostly that got you in?
Thanks</p>
<p>palpableint, great news!</p>
<p>hey congradulations!</p>
<p>RISD does seem about perfect except for the money.</p>
<p>When I visited RISD I looked at the bike drawings, they still had them up from orientation. that was very interetsing.. a suprising range of both skill and creativity.</p>
<p>(nothing came today, STILL!)</p>
<p>April is such a cruel cruel cruel month. haha. Congrats on RISD everybody!</p>
<p>FYI...
RISD just announced a 6.5% tuition increase for next year....$29,410
:-(</p>
<p>And by the way... Congratulations, palpableint, on your acceptance to RISD!</p>
<p>hello again....</p>
<p>sry to hear you havn't received word from cooper yet );
i got my envelope today (prob because i'm much closer to the school) really there was very little in it...esp compared to the enveloppe i submitted: one congratulatory letter, a list of things i need to do in order to accept..some information about dorms (apts) and a sheet to send them if i choose not to accept their offer..</p>
<p>hey guess what...on sunday i went to a brunch for accepted students at nyu...and i was sitting next to a boy who lives quite close to me and also got accepted at cooper (and nyu) of course...what are the odds of that!?</p>
<p>we are both very much in the same situation...confused about whether or not to take up the cooper offer....see i really under emphasized my apprehension about missing out on liberal arts courses....ultimatley it seems i'm choosing between cooper and (basically it's antithesis) cornell (i think i ruled nyu out)- such a strange situation. I also have a few other concerns about cooper....do you think that a high percentage of cooper students are....well on drugs? some people i've talked to seem to have that impression... i mean i know that some def are but ...being as i'm just not the type of person to do that kind of thing....i just hope it's not everybody.</p>
<p>and also... i must admit the whole no campus thing does bother me a little bit ...i mean i know it's not as good of a school but i've been offered at 2/3 scholarship at bu...should i consider going there????? i'm so confused...there is so little information about cooper and no accepted student days....</p>
<p>also...i've always thought i would like to become a professor of art, if selling my work and that type of thing did not work out...will i get the education i need to do that at cooper...and once again i'll ask does anyone know if i can take courses at nyu and cooper unioin...could i possibly receive a degree from both schools!? (that would be perfect haha)
i'm in a fog and really need your thoughts!thanks.</p>
<p>=)
so here's my skewed personal opinion:
KMAL...i doubt SATs do much more than reinforce an admissions application. i had a 1260. i shrug at it. for fine arts, i wonder if those standards are pushed distastefully aside in consideration for the portfolio and the individual's efforts in completing the requirements.</p>
<p>but if the scores are really decent. all the power to ya.
my GPA and SATs...nothing shocking. i took a good load of advanced courses. i was satisfied with my grades. dunno...it didn't hurt to have a good GPA. i didn't even send in my SAT IIs. i got a 710 in chemistry...but the writing and french were too horrible. too horrible.</p>
<p>yeah. nutshell time. my portfolio and the fact i wasn't failing any classes...probably got me in. heh. (nutshell continues) it's hard to say. i was pretty confident with my portfolio and my grades. but i definitely wouldn't make it to MIT or anything like that.</p>
<p>hope this was something...of some use. take care.</p>
<p>angelina,
you have some terrific choices. and i have no insights.
maybe consider what kind of atmosphere you'd prefer. i'm sure you are considering like mad right now (which is why what i'm saying is a bit pointless).</p>
<p>i just got a note from one girl on deviantart who says she loves it. freshman year is strenuous. maybe a little insane...and maybe a nervous breakdown kind of year. produced a lot of work she felt was "mediocre". so frustrations galore? amazing experience? she still loves it...and probably has grown more through it than she ever would have if she'd gone somewhere else.
just a bit of input. what she said was interesting...=)</p>
<p>(that girl was from cooper...i wasn't clear)</p>
<p>actually that's very helpful...do you think you could give me her deviant art url...i'd love to email her </p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>If you want to be an art professor, I'm sure you would be very well prepared for it at cooper.. and I think the credentials might help you get into a top grad school.</p>
<p>haa, I guess I don't really.. know.. but because of their emphasis on 'teaching people how to think,' you would learn how to communicate about art and therefore be able to teach others. so, in summation - I personally think cooper is a good choice because of the thinking that runs parallel with artmaking there.</p>
<p>oh, wanted to add - yes. freshman year IS insane. when I met up with the girl I know who is there last fall, she was in a bit of a nervous fit. she gave the most honest reveiew of cooper i'd heard yet - that it's not a utopia. but obviously. she was terribly stressed for a few weeks (right before the finals I assume) but she likes it now. I suppose she was adjusting to the workload.</p>
<p>..in a weird way I like of like the idea of getting hammered with art art art stuff and being forced to think hard all the time. I kind of hate that when it happens in regular school but I do want it to happen in art school. dunno.</p>
<p>yeah i agree, i'm a little bit intregued by the prospect of a heavy (art- based) work load....it's good to hear she's enjoying the school though. You wouldn't by any chance know her email address...or any way i can contact her...i'm trying to do my homework before choosing a school...</p>
<p>and yeah....i really want to go to yale for grad school (i know haha i'm a little overly ambitious)--- but yale is supposed to have a great grad program for art...(i applyed undergrad too but that wasn't happening haha- was def not suprised to receive the skinny letter from them)</p>
<p>i'm starting to lean a little bit more towards cooper now...most people i speak with tell me to go for it. I have to admit i'd kind of like to have the atmospheric security i would at cornell..but then there's the fact that cornell is in .....ITHACA haha ...not really the "it- spot" for art.</p>
<p>as for NyU -i think i've ruled it out....when i visited i wasn't at all impressed by the art i saw...it was all very...conceptual...which is good in one aspect ...but none of the ideas were really executed well and none of the students seem to be able to speak about their work well.</p>
<p>/ ; i'm so confused</p>
<p><a href="http://thevelvetspleen.deviantart.com/%5B/url%5D">http://thevelvetspleen.deviantart.com/</a>
hunt her down, angelina. =)</p>
<p>I don't know the girl's email address, but I can call her mom and ask for it. fyi - her name is Caitlin Everett.</p>
<p>wow....that would be amazing if you could...though if it's too much trouble don't worry about it. I already wrote to and heard back from one of my private teacher's former students (a cooper alum). Actually she had only the nicest things to say about cooper. This was really reassuring.</p>
<p>don't worry, it's really not a problem because Caitlin and her mom told me to call them if I had any questions, and I haven't called yet. (her mom was almost frighteningly eager to help me and tell me things so I'm sure she'll jump all over this..) I liked Caitlin a lot when I talked to her.. I'm kind of shy but she was very easy to talk to - possibly because of us having the whole art thing in common. I dunno. but she'd be a good person to get to know before you get to Cooper because she could probably help you and give you her more recent feelings about the place. since she's expecting contact from me, when you email her you could say you got her address through Leslie, or Leslie Weibeler although I think she'd probably remember me by the first name. but whatever you want to do.</p>
<p>so I'll get the address tomorrow and post. :] (glad that the alum has good things to say.. that is definately reassuring because she knows the value of the education as a whole..)</p>