<p>wow, IIT has a special arch scholarship for US citizens Jcro2006, it's a full tuition for all five year of B.arch! it's the crown scholarship if you want to look it up</p>
<p>Sorry I've taken so long, but I've had school and haven't been able to visit this site in a while. To answer your question, Jrock, I'm looking to apply for fall 2008 or spring 2009; I'm graduating spring of '08. I'm really leaning towards Rice right now, just because I've seen stuff on their programs in archiecture, engineering/math, and music, and it's quite awesome, so I love it. I'm planning way ahead, as you can see =( but it's nice to know what you're doing =)</p>
<p>Have any of you looked into universities in Canada? I think i might be interested in Mcgill, and i heard they have a good architecture program as well...</p>
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<p>wow, that's considerate of you Jrock to help out previous posters....
melissa, mcgill is probably the only one you'll find in Canada that's a professional degree....it is in Montreal, so they speak a lot of french~</p>
<p>great, blackfalcon14. focusing early on has innumerable advantages. keep other schools in mind though, as you may change your mind about Rice later on.</p>
<p>yeah, Melissa, Mcgill has a good arch program but I'm also looking at the prospects of studying architecture in Canada - career prospects, grad opportunities in US, and regional differences...what do you think?</p>
<p>bneg, thanks, I saw the pf samples at Rpi - stunning. but hey, those guys studied art to a very high level. but this was mentioned:
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'One of the things that is especially appreciated in a portfolio is work that a prospective student has done under his or her own initiative outside of formal instruction...'
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so i guess we have to indicate whether the work was done independently or not...and also, i think Rpi places more emphasis on the critique of your work, which is equally important.</p>
<p>bneg if you're looking for more pf stuff, here is one by Kebree, a cc user who got into Harv this year. there are more on that site but basically not by arch applicants - just artists in general: <a href="http://artattack.to/display.php?artist=1000001376%5B/url%5D">http://artattack.to/display.php?artist=1000001376</a></p>
<p>did i mention this somewhere on this board? Canadians are likely to receive a very low GPA. That's what i heard, and i think it's very true. SO grad school might not be as easy to get into, but if~ you do a terrific PF i guess it's not going to be a big deal.</p>
<p>I don't know much about Arch, but I second that Candadian undergrad grading is VERY different from the US system. So while getting lots of 80s looks terrific to Canadian grad programs, it's not going to fly so well in the US</p>
<p>There are sample portfolios and useful portfolio advise at syracuse and Rpi. check them out: [url=<a href="http://www.arch.rpi.edu/admissions.htm%5D%5Bb%5DRPI%5B/b%5D%5B/url">http://www.arch.rpi.edu/admissions.htm]**RPI**[/url</a>] and [url=<a href="http://soa.syr.edu/admissions/portadmiss.html%5D%5Bb%5DSyracuse%5B/b%5D%5B/url">http://soa.syr.edu/admissions/portadmiss.html]**Syracuse**[/url</a>]. Hope you find them helpful.</p>
<p>...so we're all looking into McGill...the fact that it's based in Montreal [french-speaking] is a great plus. but i've not been able to get any relevant info on the arch program itself from all i've seen on the site. Any unusual advantages the program has over others?</p>
<p>thanks bneg for showing me the RPI arch site. It was so helpful and enlightening. that's the best portfolio advice i've seen on any arch site. </p>
<p>if any other person knows any site that contains real samples from arch applicants, it would be very much appreciated.</p>
<p>ai, forgot to mention this; with AP calc/phys/Eng, you can probably take another term away from mcgill!</p>
<p>thanks, bneg, but after image-editing, can i use word for the text and pictures?</p>
<p>no, the resol will be drastically reduced~!!!!</p>
<p>wow, thanks!
searching desperately for a place i can apply EA besides Yale...</p>
<p>msword just reduces the resol without altering the look too much...it's just relatively blurry, and it becomes obvious if you have small text within the image; the text as part of the image will be very hard to see. ms photo editor changes the resol and maintains the 'messed up' look of high res. images when you zoom out too much...it faithfully keeps all the little gaps and crooked edges and 'solidifies' the image so it'll keep that messed look even with you zoom back to 100%.</p>
<p>isn'tyale a SCEA? can you do more than one?</p>
<p>Yale is Single Action. I was thinking of applying somewhere else EA. I'm not thinking of embedding text in the images. I mean adding the comments on each piece, the statement and other things</p>
<p>oh...it's just that it you embed it and compare, you can see the difference very clearly on the monitor</p>
<p>SRMom3, please I would like to ask you about "architectural studies" at liberal arts colleges such as Connecticut College and at some universities e.g. UIC. Is the discipline an excellent preparation for graduate architecture? </p>
<p>At Conn. College, the program is nearly the same as architecture and it's graduates are said to have gone on to graduate programs such as GSD. At other colleges, though, the program in question may have a totally different outlook and focus. Is 'architectural studies' with 'Art and Design' at U. of Illinois, Chicago, a good choice? UIC also says their program is based on a broader liberal arts context</p>
<p>Generally, is "architectural studies" a solid preparation for someone who wants to become an architect? It's liberal artsiness is often stressed and it is said to be an excellent preparation for graduate studies in architecture. </p>
<p>Thank you very much.</p>
<p>thanks bneg...it even takes a long time for the pix to load on word, you're right.</p>
<p>hey celebrian25, what are you planning to major in?</p>