<p>Has anyone attend this major at Harvard?</p>
<p>Please! Somebody! Anybody! No matter where are you in, Yale, Brown etc. will be also fine.................</p>
<p>I am gonna taking history of art and architecture courses at Harvard next summer, any advice?</p>
<p>hey FLW, why are you so interested in the history of art and arch. Think a little bit more about the practical aspect - real architecture. Anyway, just go for your summer program at Harv and see where it takes you. Did you go for any other summer programs in architecture, like the Exploration of Archtecture at USC?</p>
<p>I went to USC last summer, a Harvard graduate professor at USC said he hopes me to go to better schools? Did he mean Harvard? I think so.</p>
<p>Exploration of Architecture seems a little bit childish for me today, but I found that's amzing when I attend there regardless of horrible dorms and extremely rigorous studio. That's just part of my memories,yeah ,I am on my way to BETTER schools, otherwise I won't doing those AP stuff, I can just enjoy my happy life!</p>
<p>You know that RISD is pretty good, I actually just received their catalogue today, if I cannot get into Haravrd SSP, that will be my second choice.</p>
<p>do you do any practical design of buildings?</p>
<p>RISD is a graduate school, isn't it?</p>
<p>this is what I want: design of buildings, furniture, roads, public places, books, posters, everything design. I especially love woodwork. RISD...wait, I'm still checking it out.</p>
<p>Fallinwater, does RISD have scholarships for international students?</p>
<p>RISD is not a graduate school, but it offers master degrees in art, design, and art history. There are several scholarships available to international students, but they are extremely competitive. Balfour, Clark+RISD scholarships are open to the minority students, which also including internationals.</p>
<p>I did tons of study models last summer, and tons of wood workshop carpenting during the school year. Jrock, when you felt tired to do something, you should try sometning else, just like what I am doing today.
To be a good or great architect requires more than just superior design concept and skillful rendering, you have to be good at all subjects, like geography, physics, math, and history, which is my weakness. That's why I decided to go to Harvard this summer instead of another architecture program.
I recommend you to read more books about architecture history, you will discover a world you'd never seen before, they contained " the best of the best" of human history and the mysterious past that might hardly to explain.</p>
<p>Jrock is gone, and someone else? Who's interested in history of art and architecture?</p>
<p>HelloFLW,</p>
<p>I'm still around but I'm a little busy cos i'm studying for a-levels. yeAH, as you said, i'm good at all my subjects and i'll look more into the history of architecture. I some of it though. The baroque or gothic, rococo or classic, renaissance etc. actually my dream is to visit historically relevant places in arch. such as ITaly, France and Germany. BUt that is definitely not what I would like to spend 4 years studying. </p>
<p>Besides, I'm already getting boredwith architecture..hehe</p>
<p>Why are you getting bored with architecture? Is that because there has no freedom and broad selection in a 5 yr. arch program? I know it is hard to dedicate all of what you have into something that might not give you the feedback you deserved, but architecture is certainly just like that.
Well, I am still not sure whether I want to study history of arch. instead of architecture or not, because I definitely want to be an architect, but a scholar as well.
Do you get any results back from Cornell, USC, and HYP?Hope to hear your good news.:)</p>
<p>Keeping my fingers crossed till April 1. I'm getting at all of them but the major factor is financial aid and scholarship. So far, I'm in at IIT, Northeastern. I just wasted my time and money applying to UM bcos ... tis a long story.</p>
<p>However, I'm very optimistic about Cornell and Princeton, but I really don't know how good the campuses are and how I'm going to love it in those places but those are the only realistic Ivies i can attend, bcos I can never dream of studying architecture at Penn. Well, Yale is okay but it all depends on fin aid and I know that Cornell and Princeton are the most generous.</p>
<p>It won't affect you at all if you applied with fin. aid. Ivies had an agreement that they don't offer merit-based scholarships.</p>
<p>Tell you a good news: I just got acceptance letter from Harvard SSP!
I will study history of art and architecture there this summer, I cannot wait to study with some brilliant people, I am so happy!</p>
<p>Jrock,I am sure that good news will coming soon. You can at least get into one ivy.Good luck!:)</p>
<p>Flw, way to go!</p>
<p>Jrock, you too. :)</p>
<p>I received the RISD brochure. Not so great a place I would like to spend the next four years of my life at.</p>
<p>Why not? RISD students take some classes at Brown University, you also get more freedom than regular colleges.</p>
<p>RISD is the best fine art college in the US, and well recognized internationally.</p>