<p>just checking back in, congratulations on the acceptances to those who have received them!</p>
<p>and valerie, those photos are beautiful, good luck with columbia; i SINCERELY hope they enjoy the photos as much as i did</p>
<p>i also got rejected from cooper, so maybe i’ll be seeing some of you or your sons and daughters next year at saic?</p>
<p>valtergeorge: SAIC was my daughter’s first choice, but other schools have been making enticing noises at her, and she’s become interested in schools that are more LAC-like campus-wise. (That is, largely residential, with dorms and dining halls and green lawns…) Ultimately, she has to go where the money is – the school with the best aid package will be the one she attends. </p>
<p>PS: Are you on the SAIC ECP Facebook group or anything? You may know her in passing, it occurs to me. She had two-toned hair.</p>
<p>I am applying to do my foundation at Chelsea. Some British art schools (like chelsea and goldsmith’s) explicitly require you to have a foundation for entry into certain BA programs whereas others simply advise that it will greatly improve your chances of admission. But it’s a qualitative thing, if your portfolio is just as good or better than someone who’s done a foundation or you have equivalent experience/training the admission folks will look at you all the same.</p>
<p>I think British schools in general don’t have nearly as much aid available to internationals (or even locals for that matter) as their American counterparts and this is especially so for art schools. However UK and EU residents do pay significantly lower tuition fees than international students. At Chelsea for example international students can expect to pay more than 12,000£ a year for a BA in fine art whereas EU/UK residents only pay about 3,300£ for the same program.</p>
<p>Slade at UCL and The Ruskin at Oxford are possibly the most selective undergrad programs for fine art in the UK. Slade only accepts 40-45 applicants a year (out of roughly a 1000) and Ruskin only accepts about 20. They are two of the only art schools I’ve ever heard of that require high academic grades. I personally would take slade over ruskin anyday. The impression I got on **************.co.uk (i.e the british college confidential) is that everyone who wants to go to Ruskin really just wants to be able to say they went to Oxford.</p>
<p>just thought id throw all of that out there</p>
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<p>Here’s mine, sorry some of the images load slow, I’m still working on converting everything to JPGs for faster loading times :)</p>
<p>Portfolio accepted: SAIC, MCAD, NHIA, Memphis, KCAI (Twice), Corrnish.
Full school acceptances: MCAD, NHIA, (Hopefully KCAI), (All to schools I’ve applied to)</p>
<p>Aww, Redbug119, I love your children’s book illustrations, but the grammar mistakes hurt me inside. 
Some of the graphic stuff is very cool, too. I couldn’t load it all, I’m on a restaurant wifi.</p>
<p>Thanks Trin Which grammar mistakes? I’m obsessive about grammar, I even sent it past my English teacher to take a look, I didn’t quite agree with her thoughts on the subject but went with her suggestions anyways. I’m fully willing to hear your thoughts on the matter Thanks for taking a look, regardless of the wifi speed :D</p>
<p>Your past tenses are regional colloquialisms. I swam, he swam, they swam, BUT I have swum, you have swum, they have swum. I ran, you ran, they ran, BUT I have run, you have run, they have run. Those were the two I noticed immediately, your use of have ran and have swam.</p>
<p>Oh! Those were giving me some trouble, thanks!</p>
<p>Well, here’s my portfolio thumb sheet:</p>
<p>I’m applying to RISD, MICA (my two reaches), Ringling, and SVA. I applied early to VCU and was accepted. MICA accepted my portfolio.</p>
<p>Ahhh at times I wish I could forget that I applied to college…the wait is nerve racking!</p>
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<p>good enough for Parsons?</p>
<p>bears – it was a quickly done photograph. i’m retaking for gradschool apps</p>
<p>mon bonaparte
i am disappointed in you.
are you saying what you post here CC or internet in general that do not associated to graduate app are not worthy photoshopping the plug?
i thought you are the kind what we say in japan, if you take the poison might as well lick the plate clean.
go all the way in, do not cheat or skip a beat. go go go</p>
<p>valtergeorge…
Sorry to hear about Cooper for you. I have been following you from afar. I’m sure you will thrive at SAIC. Their openness means you will get to explore so many things. All of you youngins make me wish I could do it all over again. Have a great time in Chicago…you’ll eat well. There’s LOTS of good food there. And good music as well.</p>
<p>lol i dont have photoshop</p>
<p>you don have any friend in mighty brown or the certain art school next door who has photoshop?</p>
<p>drae, like what? the hotdog they stuff weird-est thing on top?
chicago style pizza that should not called pizza if you know how guido eats?</p>
<p>al capone was there, i forgot.
ok, what brooklyn guido from south italy land origin eats.</p>
<p>I visited Chicago a few years ago for a long weekend. I still dream of the meals I ate while I was there. Great Thai, Mexican (mole sauce) and waffles in an old German style place. There’s definitely a foodie thing going on there. I think eating becomes a hobby during their long cold winters. Drinking too.
I didn’t even taste the pizza or hot doggy things. Too many other options.</p>
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Strong suit is photography… it shows, more or less? I applied to SAIC and am waiting for an answer (it’s been almost two weeks now). Thoughts? It’s kind of iffy… I’m thinking if I don’t get in I’ll take a month or so to revise it then apply to another school.</p>
<p>dear drae
or maybe issue here (everywhere, Cincinnati as well) is just my food budget.</p>
<p>liked chicago OK, funny trains, museums -especially the industry one, the killer! and that aquarium… then there is this other side of the city… I donno
there is no place like home there is no place like home; if home is manhattan (soon to be bronx maybe), what would you tell your kid? maybe, say, it’s OK our zoo is bigger than the lincoln park one?
should remember we are talking about college bound kids… back to topic.
It seems max SAIC gave is 22K /year from my spying career. what then, one third short still? plus food and room, supplies?
I was putting recyclables together and SAIC’s lovely clear plastic view book case’s sharp edge sliced my good hand. It was nice of them to remember some kid’s sad portfolio from two summers ago enough to send personalized recruit letter (yet scanned signature) just that there is no way we could afford.</p>
