I’m planning to attend USC for 2 years, and then transfer to SCAD after that, so I won’t have to pay 4 years of SCAD tuition.I just hope that my art credits transfer though.
Which USC? Do you mean Southern California?
Nope. University of South Carolina
In your other thread you said your parents can’t pay for SCAD or any other private art school. If you can get your stats up high enough to get into USC and your parents can pay for all 4 years, go there. If not, look into starting at a cc and transferring to USC or another state school for your last 2 years. But the advice you got in your other thread was very good. Since your parents can’t afford pricey schools, you really need to let go of the expensive privates and for profit colleges and focus on your affordable options.
“Nope. University of South Carolina”
I suspected as much from another thread, but thought that this should be clear.
I think that this plan is better than starting at SCAD for two reasons: One is that if you change your mind regarding major, then you can stay at U South Carolina. The other is that it does cost less.
One concern is whether credits will all be transferable. Another is that it is difficult to make friends and “settle in” at a university if you are planning on leaving after two years. I am not in the art world (and my artistic daughter’s both decided on alternate majors). However, it is my impression that a career in art and design is almost always not lucrative enough to pay off student loans. I have met a couple of very good artists both of whom gave me the same impression.
Finally it is my impression that art and design is a field where it doesn’t matter much where you get your degree, what matters most is what you can do, and whether you have a degree at all also being an issue.
As such, doing the full four years at U. South Carolina makes the most sense to me (as was I think the conclusion of the other thread). I suppose that an alternative is to start at USC and see how it goes. You can start there and revisit the decision in about 18 months from now. However, if you start at USC, then do try to make the very best of it.
You have good advice on the other thread and you still haven’t answered some very important questions.
There’s a catch when going to art only schools (SCAD, Ringling, RISD etc) and that is if you want to major in art you most likely start at the beginning for foundation art classes (they are sequential) and it’s going to take four years no matter where you went prior to enrolling or what credits you have to transfer. The gen ed credits may be accepted (which is great and lessens your work load) but taking the art classes will still take 4 years in most cases.
So my answer is NO–there is a good chance this plan will not work. But you would have to speak to SCAD
There are many avenues for an art career. A lot don’t even require college. Or perhaps what you need from college is to learn some business savvy. Or you’ll discover something else that you’d rather do and use art as a hobby.
Like I said on the other thread–you need to stretch your skills dramatically to succeed in art school–and LOVE doing it.
You have a nice style in the type work you’ve shown but you’ll have to want to do much more to actually succeed in a major in art.
If that is the only type of art you enjoy doing–then celebrate it and do what you can on your own ( take some classes) to be the best at it. Learn how to market it.
You don’t need SCAD to do that.
Take classes and learn from tutorials on line–I hope you are already interested in doing that.
Look into graphic arts.
Art schools do NOT make artists–they only hone the talents of their students. That’s why the best require portfolios.
My advice:
Get your grades up, apply to USC and some other SC colleges too.
Look towards a full four years. Do some research into their art departments.
Look at ALL the things you might be interested in–including things outside the art world.
Google art careers.
Explore your art and branch out–do those figure drawings. You’ll probably surprise yourself at how fast you can improve. Look in your community for any art classes you can attend.
“I just hope that my art credits transfer though.”
To be clear: Very rarely do art credits transfer between schools.
Man at this point idk if I wanna go to college…
Why would you not want to go to college? Not many kids get to attend a dream school. Most students commute. If your parents can afford residential college, you’re pretty fortunate. Try to find one that has a variety of majors (including art) that you’re likely to get admitted to with your stats, and that’s affordable for your family.
Well my parents can only help me pay for local colleges like USC or Clemson. USC only has a Media Arts major and the only courses in there that I’m interested in is Animation & Video Game Design (which may help me since I kinda wanna make a video game like the Shelter series by Might and Delight) but that’s it.
If your parents can only afford to help pay for local colleges and you don’t have the stats for merit aid, then you’re probably going to have to stay local. USC has a studio art major, visual communications major, and computer science. Maybe those majors will have more courses you like.
06-16-2017 at 3:56 pm
Well my GPA is around 2 and 3 and my ACT score is a 20, so idk if I’ll be able to get in. And I don’t know if Media Arts in USC is good like the other art school.
Based on the info from this thread your current test scores and GPA are not competitive for admission to Clemson or U of SC. What grade are you in? You need to look at instate schools that your current stats will most likely get you accepted. For example, Winthrop, Coastal Carolina, USC Aiken , Beaufort or the Upstate . Look at these schools to see if they have a studio art major. You may also need to start at a CC.
Well upcoming school year I’ll be a senior.
Try and get those grades up and consider retaking the ACT