<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I am looking to apply to the Cooper school of Visual Arts. I was taught this summer by a few past teachers from Cooper and they tell me that my portfolio is more than sufficient as is my extra-circulars and outside experiences. My question is what kind of grades are they looking for from the art students?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>wow this is embarrassing… it feels like long time ago.
I posted some in here before.
always thought that grades scores do not matter much judging from kids I knew in the past who gotten in.
but few kids starting now from this forum are really smart ones.
It should help if you are straight out HS and have stellar numbers, plus do well on hometests and writing stuff.
real Cooper kids/ parents could answer better, since mine is a reject</p>
<p>I think cooper, like most art schools, don’t give too much consideration to your grades unless they are particularly bad or particularly good. When I went to the open house last year, one of the student reps said the art school saw transcripts and sat scores more as formalities than anything else. What is most important to them is your hometest.
I had quite extensive EC’s and passable grades (GPA> 3.5/4, SATs > 2100). Not to mention two out of my three reviewers strongly approved of my portfolio and i even got one of those glossy faculty referred application forms. None the less, I fudged my hometest and ended up a reject like 95% of the applicants.</p>
<p>Hi. I’m also planning on applying to cooper next year. 
I was just wondering, if I’m applying for first year freshmen for architecture, do I need a portfolio? How about the home test? Which one comes first?</p>
<p>And also, is there a topic for the portfolio?
THANK YOU SO MUCH</p>
<p>it is about same schedule (but no ED or deferral for arch) and same sort of tricky questions for hometest, far as I know.
this year 2012 arch
very casual initial app in by Jan6
in late Jan to early Feb, receive hometest instructions.
you have about 30 days to finish and return it.</p>
<p>Try going to Openhouse if you can. You should see the school and the area, crowd to know what you are getting into.
there are usually five Fridays evenings in Nov-Dec. art kids and arch kids are reviewed together. Portfolio can be anything (and I mean anything you do/good at/ like to show))
good luck!</p>