<p>Unfortunately, there are some IB exam activities in mid april, so my S is very unlikely to travel on the 10th or 11th. It seems that many of the accepted students days are going to fall on that weekend so do you go to the one you are unsure about or go and nail down that merit aid?</p>
<p>fineartsmajormom call tomorrow I really believe its not a big deal. Its an OPEN house, and I think that its more of a niceness thing than anything else, although now that I am typing this I am not sure. Maybe Ill have my son email tomorrow. Ill post if he hears something.</p>
<p>bears and dogs,
My son is living at the new dorm(Gateway) MICA built. He likes it, and he said he’s never run out of hot water. I’m not sure I like the industrial look of the Gateway with the concrete floors, exposed ductwork, etc. It’s affectionately known as the “Death Star”. </p>
<p>While the format for the scholarship open house differs from the regular open house, attendance has no bearing on whether candidates are awarded scholarships.</p>
<p>I have to say the MICA admissions people have been uniformly friendly and helpful and genuinely seem to want kids to maximize their chances for merit aid. I particularly like that they followed up with constructive comments after the NPDs and a visit last year. Also, they look at portfolios online and, if asked, provide feedback on what they want to see for scholarship app. I was being a bit flip about the importance of the visit for scholarships --doesn’t really fit their profile.</p>
<p>The Otis financial aid package can be checked online. They should give you the website in the acceptance packet. Go to the website and enter your ID. If they don’t let you access it, wait a few days and they will let you see your finaid package.</p>
<p>vanillaicy: The package isn’t complete. The website lists the merit grant and the Pell, but no other need based aid. I would, at the very least, have expected them to have list work study and loans. If that’s the final package, it’s a 35K gap on a 0 EFC.</p>
<p>Haha…well I received my letter on monday</p>
<p>Recap : Flew to Chicago for interview. Admissions councilor reviewed all my materials. Portfolio approved with quotes like (not verbatim) “this is the caliber of work we see from our Masters Thesis students” and “we would want you to skip introductory courses and set you up on your own educational plan”</p>
<p>She then checked with the transfer student admissions councilor, due to my “vast experience” to get my date extended to compete for merit portfolio concideration. All that was granted on the spot.</p>
<p>All app material in on time, received a letter “congrats on portfolio acceptance, we look forward to working with you in the fall”</p>
<p>Sent them my resume. I have been working in film for over seven years, and ran two divisions of a global sports manufacturer (Burton), so my resume reflected I have been very active in my fields of work.</p>
<p>Two excellent reccomendations, and a transcript from HS (graduated 7 years ago) that had a 2.95 GPA</p>
<p>Letter recieved</p>
<p>No thanks! Didn’t meet our minimum academic requirements and we don’t think you would succeed here</p>
<p>Wow…that came as quite a shock. I didn’t know a 2.95 GPA and work the caliber of Masters Degree students didn’t quality for admissions.</p>
<p>Or was it the fact they made a mistake with the processing of my app and it sat there for three weeks until I called and they found their mistake</p>
<p>Summary of this experience : God bless you if you cracked the SAIC thinking methods, because after everything I experienced, was told, and was sent, I was optimistic I would be admitted. The letter came as a pretty unpleasant suprise</p>
<p>But good luck to everyone else undergoing the process!</p>
<p>awbacon,</p>
<p>Sorry to hear your news. If you are not too burnt on SAIC would you consider asking for a review? Let yourself chill out a bit first. You have a lot of god points to make. It sounds like you need an advocate on the inside. Do you still have the name of the original admissions counselor?</p>
<p>Yes I do have the name and contact info of who I originally met.</p>
<p>I am a level headed person, so I would never approach the situation with anger, or more elegantly put…being extremely ****ed off. (hehe I’d like to be!)</p>
<p>I am just 100% confused about what I was told / sent vs. what I received in regards to a decision. I did contact the Director of Admissions last week in regards to my application having been delayed the better part of a month (in a quite friendly “sorry to take up time in what I must imagine to be a very busy period in your year” sort of email) and all the sudden, 4 days later…rejected</p>
<p>Especially when they told me last week I wouldn’t hear until the end of April. Its a real head scratcher</p>
<p>I just spoke w/ a woman in Undergrad Admissions @ Saic. Laid out everything.</p>
<p>Two people, on two occasions, informed me SAT scores for me (out of school over 3 years) werent required. Come to find out…that was incorrect. I did not meet the “minimum academic requirements” because I “did not have a barometer to compare myself to other applicants in regards to test scores”.</p>
<p>I need to send them today, and the woman I spoke with will start the process to see if I can be re-reviewed. Also will be sending another polite email to the Admissions director.</p>
<p>So basically…rejection due to misinformation</p>
<p>go bacon go!</p>
<p>Hah…I feel like I am in a horse race with myself! Do I expect a different outcome…probably not. I just hope I get a concrete answer as to what happened ?!?</p>
<p>Since I am a college applicant above the legal age…I think I need to go have a drink! :)</p>
<p>Ill keep this updated. Who knows if it happened to someone else and it may be of some benefit to others</p>
<p>definitely email them and ask, cooper already sent me the wrong letter, it is very possible they sent you the wrong one as well</p>
<p>valtergeorge - good luck to you. I have to say Cooper does exist in its own universe. My son did Saturday Outreach there and each interaction I had with the place had its own laws and timeframe. It’s like there’s some strange vortex hovering over Cooper Square. I’m not saying anything negative just that there is a force. It’s funny, I went to NYU and walked past those buildings almost on a daily basis but I had no sense of what was going on there. Except for one Cooper student I befriended while he was selling stuff on the street on Astor Place who was in a band call God is My Co-pilot.
I know two kids who go to Cooper now. One only applied to Cooper and FIT and was wait listed at Cooper but got in finally. He is very happy there now. The other kid I know tells me it is very challenging and stressful. I have a feeling you would be very happy there. If you do end up going, or even if you don’t it would be great to hear from you now and then about your college experience. Don’t forget about us CC’ers when you are showing in the Whitney Biennial :)</p>
<p>Test scores sent (and a screen capture sent to the Assistant Director, whom I had been speaking with)…10 minutes later, email confirming my app will be re-reviewed</p>
<p>Is someone filming this for a hidden camera show? Because literally…my responses would be comical!</p>
<p>I feel for all you parents out there trying to temper your childrens expectations while dealing with MULTIPLE applications. I literally spent over two years managing two brands and a team of 18 athletes, contract negotiations, and legal issues.</p>
<p>That pales in comparison to trying to wrap my mind around the Art School admissions process! Good luck to everyone going through it (and parents…go out tonight and take some stress out w/ a pint or two of Guinness)</p>
<p>awbacon - I remember an old thread in the Parent’s forum. I think it was called Happy Hour. Parents would pretend they were sidling up to the bar and getting together to release their anxieties.
My mind is fried right now from all of this. Plus I have a 9th grader who is entering his exploratory phase (if you know what I mean). I want to escape!!!</p>
<p>I am going to admit a crazy thing here…
I actually emailed Cooper (that’s my fantasy escape) and asked if they accept students for second degrees. Answer:NO!!!
Guess it’s grad school for me. If there’s anything left of me after getting two kids through college.</p>
<p>Valter: What letter did they send you and how did you know it was the wrong one??</p>
<p>awbacon and valter…I am following your sagas with much interest and crossed-fingers…all of our positive energy should count for something! did anyone read the NYTimes “the envelope” about the poor kid who didn’t send his SATs to his “safety” in state…a lot of comments from readers like “what were his parents doing?” or “this is a lesson in responsibility, parents should stay out of the process”…I am sorry but we can see from stories on this thread that even if you do things right things go wrong…and if you do things wrong or admissions does something wrong…no one even tells you that its wrong…and the consequences can be so big?! Yikes…I hope to hear very positive outcomes for both of you.</p>
<p>That’s weird. For merit grant you mean Otis Institutional Grant, right? For the FAFSA, I think there was a question asking whether you were interested in workstudy or loans or something of that sort. Did you also submit your ssn for the Cal Grant?</p>
<p>FineArtsMajorMom - Agreed</p>
<p>I would have never found out misinformation was the cause of my initial rejection. Simply put…I didn’t send my SAT’s because I was told not to. That was incorrect, and I was rejected due to it</p>
<p>Had I not inquired due to my suspicion something may have gone wrong, I’d still be rejected, as opposed to “being sent to re-review” now that they have my sat scores.</p>
<p>Yes…parents shouldnt pester the admin office, but if there may be a fundamental error in a childrens app that would cause an auto rejection letter, stepping in may be wise</p>
<p>I’d always perfer if the kids called themselves, but not everyone has the ability to convey these things on the phone. Luckily talking to and leveling with people on the phone has always come easy to me</p>
<p>Simply put : Had I not looked into it, I wouldn’t be under ‘re-review’, so in this case, appealing to the admissions department for a further explanation paid off in spades</p>
<p>Now…I have to wait AGAIN for a decision!</p>