<p>My daughter has gotten into RISD, Pratt Institute and SAIC for her BFA studies. Painting is her primary area of interest. RISD and SAIC are listed as 2 of the top graduate painting programs (Yale is #1). Despite this, my daughter fell in love with the Pratt campus and neighborhood feeling. She can forgive their older facilities. She did experience RISD by attending the RISD pre-college summer program, which she enjoyed, and developed many great portfolio pieces there. At RISD, 53% of the students are enrolled in Fine Arts and they have a 95% returning freshman rate. Pratt in comparison has 8% Fine Arts enrollment with a 85% retention rate.
My daughter is somewhat scared off by RISD's reputation of having so much work that you only get 3-5 hrs of sleep a night, and is highly competitive. She is a hard-worker, but not an over achiever. I fear that she is passing up on an "ivy" art education to go to Pratt (sort of like choosing Boston College over Harvard). We will be looking at SAIC later in April (hesitation here is that they do not give out grades, which can be more beneficial to the learning process I am told).
Anyways, what I am seeking is if anyone knows of Pratt's fine art and painting reputation first hand? And are all of these schools good for undergraduate degrees in fine arts?</p>
<p>You may have a better chance for detail and program comparison here <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/visual-arts-film-majors/[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/visual-arts-film-majors/</a></p>
<p>Should I have posted this thread in a different field? Need to make a decision by May 1.
No direct feed back so far. I have seen these other exchanges on attached link.</p>
<p>Try reposting your question in the cc forum linked in my post above.</p>
<p>I think violadad was suggesting that you repost this question directly in the Art forum, linked above.</p>
<p>ETA: Ninja’d!</p>
<p>Think I did it. If you notice, please reply back to the new blog in the fine arts page. Hopefully it is there!</p>