<p><a href=“%5Burl=http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1062580167-post15.html]#15%20[/url]”>quote</a> hey i agree but Carnegie Mellon IS AN ENGINEERING/ COMP SCI SCHOOL- not an art school
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<p>Carnegie Mellon, [Rankings</a> Round-Up](<a href=“http://www.cmu.edu/clips/rankingsroundup.pdf]Rankings”>http://www.cmu.edu/clips/rankingsroundup.pdf):</p>
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<p>The problem is that some people are looking at the entire university, rather than the architecture school or program within it. It doesn’t matter what the other part of the university is known for and only how good the arch program is! </p>
<p>For that matter, someone called CMU an engineering/computer school and yet is has one of the tippy tippy top Drama and Musical Theater programs in the country. :D</p>
<p>As far as MIT School of Architecture, I believe the MArch program was ranked second a year ago and may be third this year? It doesn’t matter what else MIT is known for!</p>
<p>@Soozievt,
Is your D currently in a vertical studio, or does that come along in year 2? And what’s her impression of MIT so far? It’s surprisingly low on my potential grad. school list, and I’m not quite sure why it’s in said position haha. Perhaps cost was an issue (still can’t get over footing a 50k bill every year)</p>
<p>To be honest with you, I am not sure what a vertical studio is. Can you explain that to me? I do know that all first year students in her program have to take a set curriculum or core and so she is not quite yet up to picking what she takes. </p>
<p>You asked me her impression and I really wish she could answer and not me. I know she thinks highly of her program and likes it. But it has been very very intense and very very demanding but we all know that arch school is like that. She basically lives at the studio (one more night to go!). She is the youngest person in her program as she is right out of college (and only one other student is right out of college…and my D is also young in her grade). The age is of NO issue for her whatsoever but the fact is that the level of experience of every student varies a great deal though the same is expected of all and so it has been very challenging (the first year core is designed to be that way she was told) and feeling she is playing catch up to the level some entered with. She has had many nice professors and has bonded with her group of 24 classmates (studios have 8 students). She was selected for something exciting very recently in her field that came out of MIT. </p>
<p>She will be working in an arch firm in the French Alps this summer. She definitely likes architecture but is working extremely hard at her program, though has these breaks. I wish I could tell you specifics. If you ever wish to visit MIT, I could put you in touch with her if that would help.</p>
<p>can anyone give me some example of the ideology behind some school.
you can just tell me the types, the school name is not necessary…</p>
<p>@soozievt, I may actually take you up on your offer to put me in touch with your D; I’ll be finishing up my last year at Tufts, which is but a few T stops away!</p>
<p>Also, there are various types of vertical studios, but the general premise is to get together all students (whether it be arch. students from all years, or arch., landscape, and urban) and collab/compete with one another in a studio option.</p>
<p>@yulin, it’s incredibly hard to generate a blanket statement for any given school. To say that, say that Auburn U is more concerned about sustainability or design/build issues than…aesthetic or technical ones would be far from the truth. To be honest, most universities have somewhat similar doctrines.</p>
<p>so<em>ein</em>quatsh…I didn’t know or forgot that you go to Tufts. Tufts is my alma mater and actually my D seriously considered attending after being admitted there and would have studied arch studies there but ended up choosing Brown instead. So, yes, she is nearby to you. But this is your senior year NOW? Does that mean you have a gap year next year and will also be in Boston? She is leaving in a few days and won’t be back until fall as she is working for an architect in France for the summer. </p>
<p>I’m still unsure of the answer to “vertical studio” and she knows WAY more about her program than I do! But I believe AFTER the first three semesters of the “core” are over, they do mix with students from all years and other programs generally speaking. Not positive if that is true in the studio class or not. But the first three semesters (of a total of seven) are just her year of MArch I’s.</p>
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<p>[NewSchool</a> of Architecture & Design](<a href=“http://www.newschoolarch.edu/]NewSchool”>http://www.newschoolarch.edu/):</p>
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<p>@ soozievt. Aww, a fellow Jumbo! Or were you a Jacksonian? And I just finished my junior year/have one more year to go.</p>
<p>Jumbos unite! 
I was in the class of 1979, though I graduated a half year early. My husband is also an alum (older than me). We were not called Jacksonians back then as it was all one. I loved Tufts. As I said, my daughter (the one going into arch) loved it too but ultimately chose Brown which she loved a great deal. I spent six years in Boston (living either at Tufts or in Cambridge). So, she’s now in Cambridge. OK, so next year, you could take a ride over to MIT and get a first hand account from her. She just finished her first year today. So, let me know next year if you want her contact information. She applied to ten schools and got into six of them and visited all six and has seen some of the others as well. So, she may have some insights having gone through the process. She recently spoke to Brown students seeking architecture as an alum (she had been a leader of the architectural studies major at Brown).</p>