<p>Found out earlier this week that my son had been accepted to Towson, his instate safety. Woke up this morning and told my daughter I had a feeling my son would find out he'd been accepted to his 1st choice school, the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. Checked online, and sure enough, he was in. Comes as a huge relief, as son only applied to four schools, and UC was the iffiest of the four.</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone on this forum, as my son and I'd be clueless without it.</p>
<p>Sketchy, congrats to your son. My daughter also got accepted to both Towson and DAAP and obviously went to DAAP. She loves it! BE PREPARAED: Your son will be puting in a LOT of work and a LOT of late hours if he wants to do well.</p>
<p>Thanks, Taxguy. With our kids being so similar, I've been quoting you a lot to my son, especially about the work involved at UC. It will be an adjustment for my son, but I have faith he'll step it up. I think since he'll mostly be working hard at something he loves he won't mind.</p>
<p>Congrats to your son! I checked my D's status at DAAP this morning and she was also accepted. We heard from her in-state safety a couple of weeks ago. She was starting to fall in love with it, so now she will have to make a decision. She was deferred at a third school, but that is probably not an issue any more.</p>
<p>I also thought UC would be the iffiest of the three she applied to!</p>
<p>Congrats to your daughter, AdvMom! It's funny, we received a letter in the mail today saying my son was eligible for a Cincinnatus Scholarship, but we have yet to receive an acceptance letter.</p>
<p>Sketchy, if you read my prior posts, you know that Cincinnati does some strange things such as offer scholarships before a kid gets notified of admission. I think the reason is that the Cincinnatus folks are treated as a completely separate entity from admission. This may not be a good excuse,but it is the way it is.</p>
<p>Congrats Advmom on your daughter's admission. UC is a terrific school and is one of the harder programs in the US to get admitted to.It certainly is one of the most academicly oriented among all of the design schools.</p>
<p>ByMarx, I haven't seen these,but it would be very interesting to find out. Why not call admissions and ask them. I would bet, however, it is under 40% and probably under 30% for architecture, interior design and industrial design.</p>
<p>ByMarx, I do know that for graphic design, they had over 109 qualified applicants ( these are people who completed the applications and met the admission criteria posted on the web site) and only 34 were accepted. I would bet that for other majors such as architecture, interior design and industrial design, it is much harder than noted. </p>
<p>I called up UC> They don't like to publish these statisics for DAAP since they don't want to overly encourage or discourage students. Stats are just that. There are many diviations one way or the other. For example, my daughter did NOT have the minimum requirements noted on the UC web site. She attended a top 30 school in the US but wasn't in the top 20% or even top 30%. She did, however, have a good enough portfolio to get into Carnegie Mellon and had taken some college courses while in high school obtaining a 3.66 in those courses. She was accepted to UC. I should note that she met two other Carnegie Mellon acceptees who went to DAAP. They get a fair number of real gems applying to DAAP so you should be very proud of your daughter/son's accomplishment.</p>
<p>Ironically, she has ended up being in the top 20% of DAAP students with her UC GPA.</p>