<p>Getting back to your question, questforART, if you had any shot of filling a 20K gap, you’d know about it by now. It just isn’t doable. Pratt probably doesn’t expect you’ll take out 50K in loans for just one year of school either. This kind of “offer” is called an accept-deny. The accept you, but they do so in a way that makes it impossible for you to attend.</p>
<p>Pratt doesn’t have a fat endowment, and it isn’t their mission to create opportunity for students to the extent some traditional colleges do. Pratt offers a very expensive product. Like other very expensive products, some people can afford it, some can’t. If you walked into a BMW dealership and they ridiculously offered you huge outrageous loans to buy a car (they wouldn’t, by the way) you would know they weren’t looking out for your best interest, right?</p>
<p>I hope you applied to some more affordable traditional colleges with excellent art departments. If you didn’t, you can start somewhere else and perhaps transfer to one later. There is more than one path to anywhere.</p>