<p>I want to apply for Interlochen Arts School and major in creative writing but I wonder a few things about it.</p>
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<li><p>Is this a good school still? I have read reviews that it got worst over the years but some say its still good.</p></li>
<li><p>I'm a lesbian so is this school homophobic?</p></li>
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<p>3.I haven't got any awards for my writing but will they still accept me?</p>
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<li><p>I'm goth so would they present a problem there? (I don't want to go to any school if I will get bullied). </p></li>
<li><p>Can the dress code be modified? Can we wear different clothes on weekends or after class?</p></li>
<li><p>Any other things you can tell me about the school?</p></li>
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<p>I love the idea of going to Interlochen but I'm a bit worried about it since I've never visted the school before. I'm about to enter 9th grade and I plan to apply 10th grade year and every year after that.</p>
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<li><p>I heard from a parent here that it’s a very LBGT-friendly school.</p></li>
<li><p>Not everyone has to win awards to be accepted into high schools. As an applicant, you are evaluated holistically.</p></li>
<li><p>I don’t think the goth culture is prevalent at any school. You won’t get bullied probably because it’s a boarding school, but are you comfortable with being an “odd duck”, surrounded by non-goths? But again, as long as you don’t dress up conspicuously (unless you’re referring to goth as a fashion style, not the mindset), I think you’d be fine.</p></li>
<li><p>You definitely may be out of dress code after class and on weekends.</p></li>
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<p>Thank you for the help with my questions. I was very worried about having to spend time at a school that could turn out hostile or kind. I do dress goth and have the mindset so thank you for the help there too. I just wondered why you said bullying would be less likely to occur since its a boarding school?</p>
<p>To answer your question: Zero tolerance and the forfeiture of $50,000.00. For further information regarding dress code read the Student Handbook on the school’s website.</p>
<p>Maybe Walnut Hill would compete for being LBGT friendly but that’s about it. </p>
<p>My question for the OP is different more basic? If you want to be a writer (and that is a wholly different matter than being a performer where a technical skill must be mastered) why are you going to the best academic/intellectual school you can–now that may be IAA but I would say that you should not just look at schools that have creative writing per se-- after all you have to have something to say before you can write and that means you have to learn how to think --and have read widely.<br>
The technical aspects of creative writing-- be it poetry, fiction or essays will all be well taught at top flight schools of all descriptions. </p>
<p>Do you want to be around musicians and dancers as the vast majority of your classmates or kids passionate about literature, the classics, science, history and the other areas of the mind? IAA and schools such as PA, PEA, DA are quite distinct experiences. Think hard about it.</p>
<p>Etondad, you just changed my whole thoughts on going to Interlochen. I didn’t know of any schools besides Interlochen and Walnut Hill. I have read a large variety of books and I read on my own spare times. My ideas of a school was a school that focues on creative writing since I hope to get published. I write horrors and mysteries and I want to go to a school that could help me aprove on my stories. Something that would lead me to get published. </p>
<p>I don’t want to be in a average classroom with kids who couldn’t care less about being there. I want to be surrounded by people who share the same passion of writing. A class that’s excited to go through the prose of Edgar Allan Poe and read Shakespeare’s Sonnets. I want to end class knowing that I share this common passion for writing. The same urge to get my thoughts across paper, the same wild passion to express myself through words.</p>
<p>I came here looking for Interlochen help but I would rather know of any school that could held that housed writers with the same amount of dedication.</p>
<p>You really should broaden what you’re looking at then. There is no top boarding school that could be described as an “average classroom with kids who couldn’t care less about being there.” That’s the whole point! Ok, not every kid is going to be passionate about English class, some of them may be passionate about science or math or something else instead. But if you look at these schools, you’re going to find very small class sizes, teachers who are passionate about what they teach, classes that are discussion-style (not lectures), and kids who get engaged in subjects (even when they didn’t know they were interested in that subject). All these schools have lots of opportunity for improving your writing - school newspapers, poetry and prose journals, etc. You also might end up finding other things that you feel passionately interested in besides just creative writing.</p>
