<p>I don't usually post here in the Visual Arts forum but was asked to post this article from today's Toronto Star. Our public arts high school here in Toronto is featured in the article about how one of the art teachers invited some arts colleges to visit the school and see his students' work. Reps from 22 attended the event.</p>
<p>Etobicoke</a> art students offered $1.6 million in scholarships - Parentcentral.ca</p>
<p>What a great opportunity for these fortunate students and bravo to the teacher for going above and beyond for his kids. </p>
<p>My D who is an actor attended this school and the hallways were decorated with student art. I always loved visiting the school for her performances and wandering the halls!</p>
<p>that’s a great thing the one teacher did, and students’ works are impressive.
thanks for posting.
thou I just had to do math which I am really bad at, 64K for four years is about only half of tuition.
being Canadian, they can’t get federal grants nor loans, right? everything else is going to be gapped and kids have to come up with balance?
private artschools’ COA is prohibiting to kids with limited resources.
plus living expense and art supplies, traveling, legal paper costs to consider.
reading the headline of 1.6 million for 20 students is WOW!!
but break them apart per schools, it is about an average ‘baiting’ amount for those artschools the article mentioned.
even domestic top students are often have to give up their dream school and attend financial safety, because ‘bait’ is just that, not enough for their families.
I hope in the future, the high school’s reputation would grow, string of alumni would built solid network in the states, and mostly, those US schools would give special offer of all inclusive and/or legal work study allowance, plus career service with working paper attached to it.</p>
<p>It’s true, bears and dogs, that there aren’t any full rides here. However, these students have received offers that they would not have otherwise received, as most would not have been applying to U.S. schools. Who knows what kinds of doors these offers may open? It’s quite possible that some of them come from families who are fully capable of supplying the remaining dollars, and they may also be eligible for some provincial funding for use in the U.S. It’s rare for any student to receive a full ride for any arts program but many are able to attend anyway.</p>
<p>I honestly don’t know how many of the visual arts kids at ESA have attended U.S. colleges but certainly many of their drama/theatre/music theatre and music students have done so over the years, my D included, many to excellent programs like Curtis, Juilliard, Tisch, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, etc. It is a wonderful testament to the public school system in Canada that programs like this one have existed for so long and have such long lists of successful alumni. My hope is that the visual arts kids have the same opportunities.</p>