<p>Hi! I am applying right now ED for CU School of Art. I think grades for CU School of Art are considered a formality more than anything else (I think they are simply going through the motions with it). That being said, being a good student can really enrich your work. You just have to be extremely creative and smart with your hometest- grades don’t always reflect that creativity though. I would not stress too much about it, just work really hard on the hometest. Deferred is only for those who are applying Early Decision. It means that they will re-consider your hometest/admitting you come time for judging Regular Decision work as well. It pretty much means you MIGHT be accepted in the future, but they want to see your work in comparison to the Regular Decision work and then decide. There really is no one way to “get that”, they either like your work enough to accept you ED or defer you or they don’t. Did you meet with Cooper at NPD? That would give you a good gauge as to what they think of your portfolio. The hometest is most important though, even if one has what would be considered a good portfolio, if the hometest answers aren’t very good, there’s no chance of getting in. Hope this helps!</p>
<p>Nope! Sadly enough there were’t at the portfolio day when I went. I’m really excited to apply now knowing that my grades are not average and that I “might” have a chance of getting in. I’m going to visit them next month sometime. I saw that they said send your Portfolio with you home test? Do you know if we send a CD or the actually work or slides?</p>
<p>Yeah, unfortunately they only visit the coasts and Chicago in the midwest(where I met them). I really don’t know about the grades, I am just speculating! That is something you can ask admissions about for a better answer. Just a warning, the only time the school is open to tours for the school of art is during Open House days, which only happen in November. So you can go, but you won’t actually be able to get into any of the buildings beyond being in the lobby or talk to faculty. They are really strict about it (sorry for the unfortunate news). Did you receive your hometest yet? Are you applying early or regular decision? The hometest you receive in the email explains it clearly but yes you have to send in (at least) 5 actual works (for me a lot of my work is performance based or installation so I just sent in physical documentation of that) and my other work again exceeds the size of the box you send the test in so I put it on a flashdrive labeled with my name. (You name your flashdrive Firstname<em>Lastname and each portfolio piece in it is labelled like Firstname</em>Lastname<em>portfolio</em>1…etc until the end). Up to 20 pieces can be on the flashdrive. You don’t send in CDs/dvds. What you send in digitally has to be able to be viewed on a Mac computer. If you send in slides they have to be all on 1 8.5x11 transparent viewing sheet.</p>
<p>NOOOO! D: That sucks, thanks for letting me know that! Guess I’ll try to tour Pratt Institute.</p>
<p>No I get my home test Mid Jan, I didn’t apply for early decision. Wish they where more specific on there site, the lady at the admission office is no help either. Does those five pieces have to be the home test or a mixture of home test and sketchbook? I keep herring that you have to send in your sketchbook. </p>
<p>So how is your home test are the prompts hard or easy? How many prompts did you get?</p>
<p>Ok, since you are applying regular decision- you cannot be deferred. Anyhow, the admissions office is pretty notorious for not answering questions all the time- the way I knew a lot about the school was just from looking through the internet for literally most of my junior year haha. Anyway, this is what you have to do: you MUST send in the 6 visual prompts they assign to you, 5 original works to send in, up to 20 on a flashdrive, 12 questions on the “questionnaire” (but really, treat them as essays) and your sketchbook. It is indeed a lot to do! Yes, send in your sketchbooks. For me I am sending in both my sketchbook for conceptualization (how I come up with ideas) and visualization. Everyone works differently. Take what I am saying with a grain of salt. So the 5 pieces are NOT the hometest and they are NOT from your sketchbook. The hometest was an incredible experience for me, really changed the way I have done things and also was fun! But a lot of people give up on the hometest, because it requires you to think in a really abstract way if you want to do well. (Don’t take things too literally, prompts may seem easier to the majority than they actually are meant to be). They work your brain in a really interesting way, but it was a really intuitive process for me. I cannot tell you how you will react to them or how it will go for you- a lot of people have a really difficult time with them. They get more abstract as they go along (for ex. the last question will always be a design problem, last year’s was “design a transient monument” or another year’s was like “redress for a misdemeanor”) You get 6 prompts. You must complete all of them and send them in original form (unless you have 3D work) Look up past prompts for an idea of what it will be like. Questions change for regular decision, so you won’t have the same ones as I have. Stick with your gut, don’t overthink the prompts, be yourself. If you hate art making by the end of it all, that probably means the school isn’t right for you (because the hometest is essentially what the school would be like for 4 years).</p>
<p>I’ll be an transfer student, so I have a semester of art school under my belt already. Kind of used to very vague projects lol. Great, it sounds like so much fun, can’t wait to get my prompts :-D</p>
<p>Oh my god, good luck!!! They only accept 2 a year, I am too afraid to apply for that if I don’t get in this year, so I will reapply next year as a freshman again if it doesn’t work out haha. Hope you have fun with the app and get in!! Hope this helped you! :D</p>
<p>Oh and the transfer thing could be misinformation! I just heard that from someone I know!</p>
<p>I took the liberty and went on Cooper Union admission page ask some questions. Seems like your right about the academics werwandert; it’s basically third he said secondary, but it’s seem more like third on the list of things they look for in art school applicants.<br>
1:Home test
2:Portfolio
3:Academics </p>
<p>the odds are the same incoming freshman, when you compare yourself to other transfer students applying. I have come to the conclusion that if you do your very, very best it does not matter if your a transfer or incoming freshman… if your Cooper material then your in. </p>
<p>Me:
Q:
I’m a transfer student from another art school. I was wondering how strongly Cooper Union admission committee consider grades for Cooper Union art school applicants? Since I’m a transfer student, I read on your site that you have ‘limited’ number spot available for transfers. What are the odds that transfer students can get accepted, compared to an incoming senior. How many spot are open for the class of 2016? Just trying to figure out if I should even applied because of my grades or, should I apply for as regular class of 2017 and not transfer any credits. Hope you are able to answer some of my questions.</p>
<p>Cooper Union
A:
Grades are secondary to the home test and portfolio work. We typically admit about 10-12 transfers. Though less than the number of freshman admitted , we also have about 1/4 of the number of transfers apply to Cooper Union. We receive about 1,200-1,400 freshman art applications and about 300-400 transfer art applications.</p>
<p>I will also be applying ever year into I can’t apply anymore or till I get accepted. Be sure to share you work if you need feedback, I have great experience with critiquing, thanks to art school 3 hour long critiques. I’ll post my home-test on here for every one can give feedback before I submit. I most likely make a forum called: ‘Cooper Union Home test review’ or something like that.</p>
<p>Great! They are actually friendly on there- I forgot to say that. Yeah I think you are right!! 
Cooper knows what they want. I am so glad to hear they accept more than I heard- that is really great news for you! Haha yeah, I am doing the same thing, let’s just hope for the best! Oh I actually would recommend not put yours online at all for feedback - I think you shouldn’t let other people influence your answers, you know what is best for your work and for the answers! Trust me. You want it to be 100% your thinking process… I guarantee you will learn a lot about yourself! :)</p>