<p>People have railed on me for asking this, but is there any legit art at Caltech? Im talking about sculpture and drawing classes, not performance arts. Im a science & art fanatic, and id like both in the colleges i choose to apply to.</p>
<p>No, there isn't. This term, I think there were about 3 classes offered that match your description, and they were all really intro/basics.
And no one ought to rail on you for asking.</p>
<p>That being said, you can cross register for free at Occidental, Scripps, or the Art Center College of Design while you're here. I'm sure you'd find whatever you wanted at one of those schools.</p>
<p>Do you know anyone who actually does this?</p>
<p>I don't...but I don't expect many people would want to do it. At least there's some option.</p>
<p>I'm not certain, but I think I might have heard of someone taking classes at Scripps.</p>
<p>I know a couple of people who took classes at Oxy and I considered doing it myself for percussion lessons, but never did.</p>
<p>hmm...how far away are those colleges from caltech?</p>
<p>Oxy is not that long away by car. The orchestra is a joint Oxy-Caltech orchestra so we alternate by term which place rehearsals are at (there's a carpool). Works out pretty well.</p>
<p>Alright thats good. Does anyone think that its worth giving this opportunity a shot (considering i even make caltech)</p>
<p>I thought you said on the Harvey Mudd thread you'd already got in and had a finaid offer?</p>
<p>I had a friend who took classes over at Art Center (which is like 10-15 minutes away by car), and she thought really highly of it. My understanding is that it is a first tier art school, and has a bunch of cool folks and interesting classes... so that ought to fit your passion. I don't know if you can take classes there your first two terms (cause of frosh hums), but you might be able to.</p>
<p>Yeah i looked into the Art Center, and it looks very high quality. um....what are 'frosh hums'?</p>
<p>Frosh hums = Freshman humantities</p>
<p>I knew a guy who graduated last year and took classes at the Pasadena Art College, and enjoyed it greatly. I know another girl (freshman), who's planning on doing the same.</p>
<p>The Pasadena Art College is, in fact, rather reknown throughout the world (when I was visiting in Poland, I met a girl there who was into art design, and would have died to be able to attend the Pasadena Art College, which surprised the heck out of me, as I didn't know how good it was at all).</p>
<p>Also, it is extremely famous for its transportation design classes. Automobile companies are extremely pleased to grab a Art Center grad. I took Rapid Prototyping there two years back, got to work with Alias, CNC machines, and other cool things that I didn't get to work with before at Tech.</p>
<p>hmmm, interesting. thanks!</p>
<p>If so:</p>
<p>What classes?</p>
<p>How hard is it to get approval?</p>
<p>How about transportation? Is a car required?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Scripps is about 25-30 miles to the east of Pasadena. The regional rail might work, but I don't know the schedule.</p>
<p>hmmm, oxy is much closer to caltech than claremont (scripps), as much as i've seen on maps.. and scripps is a girl college, so i'm not sure can non-girls go there even if they're some other college student?</p>