So much good news! Congrats @NYCMomof3 on RIT, and @proserpine on VCU and Drexel! Scholarships, Yay!!!
Daughter woke up to one more acceptance this a.m.–Bard College! I wish SAIC would hurry up with those EA decisions…
@KCHWriter Congrats!!
Ah, accepted to UNT (in state safety), CCA, and ArtCenter, now waiting on Ringling, RISD, SVA, Pratt, Parsons, Laguna, Otis, RIT, MICA, SCAD and University of Houston…I definitely applied to too many places…
@pastelrain, I would have applied widely if I were the applicant. My daughter started out with 8 schools on her list and she is down to 6. Now with her acceptance to RIT, not sure if she will continue with two of the 6 (that she was doing regular decision). She’s still waiting for SVA, MICA and Massart (all were EA). Congrats on your acceptances!
With ED acceptances, I am under the impression that all remaining applications (EA or RD) have to be pulled. Am I wrong?
@cag60093 with RIT they have what they call a “friendly early decision”. If by 2/1 you feel that you cannot afford the school (once your FA and scholarships are in), they will let you out of the contract. Their site says that once the deposit is given at or before 2/1, you must withdraw all other applications.
Check your emails from Parsons. D just got accepted with scholarship!!
Congrats @winterbeauty
My son got accepted to MCAD, SCAD and LCAD with scholarship. Still waiting for CalArts, Ringling, SVA and MICA.
Most likely we will cross out MICA from the list after a campus visit before Thanksgiving.
Do tell @AskExperts re: MICA!!
MICA, the campus is nice, feel safe, dorm is good, teachers seem very nice as well. Note, we did seat in one of the animation classes and spoke to the dean and the students.
Tow things that bother us:
- The teaching method is very free style. They do not even teach the "12 principles of animation".
- The whole department has 5 cintiq tablets, three of them are the tiny ones. I don't think they are well equipped.
The dean said their animation program is not into entertainment business. they have joint program with in medical field with John’s Hopkins hospital. It could be a good or bad, I guess. It depends on the interest of the students.
Different people look for different things. MICA is just not the type of school my son is looking for. I am sure MICA is still a very good school.
Thanks @AskExperts
That’s very helpful!!! I appreciate your review. We didn’t get to visit. Awaiting EA decision
@NYart15 Good luck!
My daughter has been accepted at Parsons, SAIC, SCAD and CCA so far - the first three have also indicated the merit scholarship amounts. Does anyone know when Pratt communicates its decisions?
@AskExperts congrats on the acceptances!
Congrats to everybody!
@proserpine–Not sure if it matters but Drexel’s degree is a BS rather than BFA.
@PhoenixB how did your D hear of her SAIC acceptance? Still waiting on mine…
Thanks, gouf78 - we are aware that Drexel’s is a BS degree. That was actually part of the appeal. Going over their course curriculum and major requirements, DD is happy with their course offerings. Walking down the hall of the animation dept and seeing the long row of movie posters their grads have worked piqued her interest as well. 
NYArt15, thanks for the info on MICA. It was further down the list, but if DC is accepted there, those are definitely points we would bring up. We only got a very quick peek into their animation dept. Pratt’s animation area was very well equipped. We’d be very interested to talk to their animation instructors about the kind of work they do. Our feeling after touring MICA is that they are more into the experimental than the commercial. Maybe that is where the “not in the entertainment business” comment came from?
@proserpine The comment “not in the entertainment business” is directly come from the Dean.