<p>I'm really passionate about art, and despite the slow industry I'm pretty confident I can find my way into the working world somehow. I've heard colleges seriously add to your art experience, so I want to find a college that has a very strong art program.</p>
<p>However, I feel it may be a little silly to major in only art. I'm interested in many sciences such as astrophysics, engineering and anthropology as well. I feel it's good to have an even balance of talents. </p>
<p>Are there any colleges out there that are strong in both fields? I live in AL but I'm fine with looking farther out of state as well. I've also had pretty consecutive A's, GPA has always been between 3.8 and 4.</p>
<p>Brown had a dual degree program with RISD. Even if you don’t get into that program you can still take classes at RISD white attending Brown. You have a good gpa, but many other stats also determine what kind of schools you should be looking at, so I’m not really sure what to recommend besides that.</p>
<p>Vassar is excellent for art and strong academically. </p>
<p>I would also like to rec University of Virginia. My S is an Art Scholar at UVa double majoring in fine arts and Physics. You could study practically anything your heart desires there and have a solid art back ground. I just want to say that we thought he should be looking at LAC’s, but in the end the big university turned out to be so much better for him.</p>
<p>Among small and medium privates, Brown and Vassar are excellent choices for good studio art + strong academics. (The Brown/RISD program is insanely selective, but Brown on its own has a good fine art deparmtne.) I would add: Yale, Williams, Wesleyan, Hamilton, Skidmore, Conn College, Oberlin, Kenyon.</p>
<p>The one I’m the most familiar with is Williams. Excellent studio art and art history. Excellent sciences and social sciences. Double (or even triple) majoring is common.</p>
<p>Wherever you apply, be sure to submit an art supplement, even if you don’t intend to major in art.</p>
<p>If you’re looking for a more medium sized university, in addition to UVA, check out Washington U. in St. Louis. I’m a freshman here, and coming from a very bare art background the program has been great. The best thing about the art program here is its way of making sure you get a full liberal arts education as well as an art education, because you have to complete distribution requirements in ArtSci as well as the core curriculum of the art school. The core classes I’m in right now are also great, and they are much more focused on skill development than who has the most developed talent coming in. Also, of the 66 freshman in the art school, almost all of them are doubling on some other major, so it’s really common and advising knows how to work it out so that you can finish in four years (or five, if you choose to complete two separate degrees rather than two majors on one degree).</p>