<p>AWBacon,</p>
<p>Yeah you might still not make it BUT at least now you’ll be judged on all your merits. I’d hate to go down on a procedural error! Geez, this is tough enough even if you get everything right in your processing.</p>
<p>Good luck and good job finding and fixing the problem!</p>
<p>Wheaty</p>
<p>awbacon, congratulations, that really is good news!</p>
<p>“Valter: What letter did they send you and how did you know it was the wrong one??”</p>
<p>They sent me a rejection letter back in february. My friend (who is a student there) went to pick up my hometest so she could bring it back during spring break, so i could avoid a $50 shipping fee. They told her that they could not find my hometest and to come an hour later, and then told her they couldn’t give it to her and couldn’t tell her why. so i called, and they put me through to the dean of admissions, who personally apologized for what appeared to be a ‘clerical error’. they have been treating my hometest as deferred this whole time, while i received a rejection letter. so in essence, in two weeks time i could either be receiving a second rejection letter or an acceptance letter, and had my friend not gone to pick up my hometest this would have all been a very confusing situation haha</p>
<p>drae.
could you just forget you have degree? I mean they are not to discriminate anyone, age creed race anyhow. how about certificate program? I was secretly dreaming about being classmate=ultimate spies with you. I have a degree but won’t transfer all, could do it if I want to, and want to, if only don’t have to work day job. midlife crises. Moms in the art school confidential. “finally, I’ve found my voice!”</p>
<p>valtergeorge - the story you just told is EXACTLY the kind of stuff that was happening with my son at Cooper. They would say come meet so and so on this day and time. Show up and they tell you that person never has office hours at this day and time. Or, come pick up your portfolio of work and when you get there everyone’s stuff is there but yours is mysteriously missing. You have entered the Cooper vortex and must play by Cooper rules. Just surrender and everything will work out. Wander around and someone will pop out who has the answers. Just make sure you ask the right questions. Very Alice in Wonderland.</p>
<p>Bears - could I really hide my past? 
maybe I should just create a whole new identity all together. The ultimate art project. Or maybe we should just make a movie about two middle aged mom’s showing up at art school. Hilarity and drama would ensue.</p>
<p>I saw few fake Yayoi Kusama with portfolio at the openhouse which gave me some hope. You can wooo them with your fabulous hometest, then see where it takes you.</p>
<p>@awbacon, maybe this is your first homework assignment. If so, you are certainly rising to the challenge! Remember for future reference, the need to bury them with paperwork and follow-through when any big event or decision comes up (financial aid, graduation, that part-time job they promised you…)</p>
<p>drae, that someone with the answers would be the effigy of Peter Cooper, which is unbelievably crudely made to be stationed in the foundation building to greet incoming students of the most selective art school.
so there, I love them more than ever.</p>
<p>vanillacy: Oh, we’ve checked all the right things and submitted all the right things. Calgrant letter came with the max award and Otis listed as the school (because it’s the only in-state she applied to). So my assumption is that the aid package just isn’t complete. It seems like some schools have delayed completing the aid package because they think they’re missing W-2 forms. I don’t have any – my income is all scholarship money – and my financial forms reflect that, with the proper notations on the tax forms and stuff. But it seems like some FA offices need to have it repeated in small words. For the remaining verification forms we have to send in (about 5 more schools left that haven’t officially notified us of that), I’m probably going to send a separate note explaining that.</p>
<p>STILL no financial aid packages, and the MICA results haven’t come yet, but today daughter got an acceptance package from SMFA! She applied for the studio diploma option. We’re waiting for the NYC schools, MICA, and RISD.</p>
<p>Today was the first denial letter. MICA says no. Additionally, PNCA sent their financial aid package, which includes a PLUS loan for more than my AGI the past two years. My credit is an issue, and I’m not employed because I’m a full time student. As a result, that package won’t work for us. </p>
<p>On the upside, Parsons admitted her. No financial aid info from them yet! So, 6 out of 10 are yes, 1 is no, and 3 are outstanding: RISD, Cooper, and Pratt.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that Pratt may come tomorrow. Check those emails!</p>
<p>drae27: That’s what Pratt’s saying on FB, at least. A Pratt admission would be a good thing, I think!</p>
<p>Bummer on MICA. I noted that was the first school you mentioned in that thread.</p>
<p>Redbug119: Well, her SAIC ECP roomie is a freshman at MICA now, and they really bonded last summer. That made her more interested in MICA. Mostly it’s a little disappointing because they had been <em>so</em> enthusiastic during the portfolio review and then sent her the “You’re in the top 25 percent of portfolios we have reviewed” scholarship finalist letter. So, she was a scholarship finalist, but she wasn’t admitted. 
That’s probably because of her academics – she is a 3.1 or so unweighted GPA with SATs right on the bottom edge of the middle 50% of admits at schools like MICA and RISD. But she’s so sweet, she said that if a school denies her because she’s not academically strong enough, they were probably not a good fit anyway, because her GPA and SATs are a fair assessment of how she does in straight academics.</p>
<p>“she said that if a school denies her because she’s not academically strong enough, they were probably not a good fit anyway,”</p>
<p>She also sounds very mature, this is a very healthy take on the situation. I think it’s really unfair for these schools to send a “25 percent of portfolio scholarship finalist letter” before they know whether the other criteria they have set up are met. Sounds to me like this is MICA’s loss. And for some reason there’s something much better out there for her, I’ve always found that when you have a disappointment like this it turns out it was because there was a better situation around the corner and a better fit. Good luck to her, she sounds like a great kid.</p>
<p>Just one more ranting comment. This really drives me a little nuts that these schools would say you’re a scholarship finalist before knowing whether they were going to admit you. My kid was asked to apply ED at a very touted school and given the impression, as your daughter was, that it was going to be a “go”. I knew the odds were very great but while it was pretty amazing to be requested to apply it was still a let-down then not to get in. I suppose these interviewers mean well but perhaps it’s not so good to be quite so positive if the decision is still out. And to send a scholarship finalist letter? C’mon. I’m glad we didn’t even consider MICA, sounds to me like the left hand (or side of the brain) doesn’t know what the right hand (or side of the brain) is doing. I hear it’s a great school but this is a very odd way to proceed.</p>
<p>Squeee! OMG! Pratt just sent email, said yes! I don’t know why I feel so tickled about that, but I do. She says that now that she has been admitted to her top three “match” schools she’s pretty happy with the whole process. </p>
<p>Now more financial aid faxing and documentation, and more waiting for aid packages. </p>
<p>artsmarts: I agree about MICA. To be fair, they do say in their letter and the scholarship stuff that being a finalist is not a guarantee of admission, and that the admissions decisions wouldn’t be out before the scholarships were due. I’m glad daughter didn’t produce a bunch of new work in the week she had to do the scholarship app, because it would have been worse. As it was, there was a lot of essay writing and recommending and paperwork to no avail.</p>
<p>My daughter got the yes and a scholarship from Pratt today. So far she’s gotten accepted at Syracuse, Purchase, Cleveland Institute of Art, Laguna College of Art and Design, and MICA.<br>
She has her portfolio “accepted” at MICA last September after we visited the campus. She got an early yes along with a academic scholarship. Then she was invited to the scholarship competition – so we’re waiting to hear about that. She really wants to go to MICA.
She’s also waiting to hear from RISD and Cooper… and Parsons invited her to apply and extended their deadline, so she did that at the last minute after the shenanigans for RISD and Cooper were done.
She’s happy about the Pratt acceptance though.</p>
<p>This is just so competitive, it seems like if someone is a scholarship finalist you would want to admit them…I don’t know, this is all so complicated. But the good news is Pratt and other top 2 choices, I think that’s fantastic.</p>
<p>Congratulations glutenmom and trin! D2 also got in at Pratt. She visited MICA today and sat in on 3 classes and had a good talk with one of the teachers. I was visiting Towson with D1 at the time. In case anyone’s interested… it’s only about 10 minutes between the two schools, unless you drive around and around looking for the proper parking lot at Towson.</p>
<p>Came home to find the happy Pratt e-mail. All in all, a good day!</p>