SCAD in general

<p>/My dad said i can go to scad only if i go to community college first. My worry is that if i get an AAS degree first, i will be ineligable to do a 4 year bachelors degree for the other degree's i want. //</p>

<p>It will not affect your academic eligibility, but there might be issues with student loans, state aided tuition, etc. Best thing to do is talk to and admissions representative and get the info straight from the source.</p>

<p>//If i did the community college first ,then went to scad would i only be allowed to go for 2 years? or would ibe allowed to go for 4. //</p>

<p>Academically, you would be able to go for as short or long as it takes to graduate, but you should double-check with an admissions counselor to discover if there are any issues with student loans and state aid. There's no reason why you cannot be upfront about your plans.</p>

<p>Wow the amount of information on this subject is pretty overwhelming, but informative.</p>

<p>I'm a third year at a public university and I'm considering graduate school. My major is Art Practice, but my focus is on sequential art. Most of the posts I've read here apply to undergraduate degrees, so I was wondering how SCAD is in graduate program area, specifically sequential art. Also, if somebody could inform me on other schools with strong sequential art programs or anything close, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.</p>

<p>i have a question, when submitting the application online, afterwards do you send in the extra things (portfolio, transcript, letter of recommendations), needed to the given address they give you?</p>

<p>Yes, that is what you do. Make sure everything is identifiable as yours. :-)</p>

<p>//I'm a third year at a public university and I'm considering graduate school. My major is Art Practice, but my focus is on sequential art. Most of the posts I've read here apply to undergraduate degrees, so I was wondering how SCAD is in graduate program area, specifically sequential art. Also, if somebody could inform me on other schools with strong sequential art programs or anything close, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.//</p>

<p>As far as I know, there are very very few grad programs in Sequential Art.</p>

<p>Hello, guys! I am a new comer and am very interested in any info & reputation of the Industrial Design(MFA) program in SCAD. Can anybody let me know some actual info ab that? Is that good for future job after graduat fm SCAD? And how is this program there comparing with RIT, PRATT? Thank u!</p>

<p>Pratt and RIT's industrial design programs have been around a LOT longer than that of SCAD and are a lOT more well known. Thus, unless you get rejected from them, why on earth would you want to go to SCAD over either RIT or Pratt.</p>

<p>Is there a reason that you're all over RIT's nuts, taxguy?</p>

<p>Personally, I don't think being around longer or being more well known has any bearing over the quality of the programs. A correlation maybe, but nothing more. A SCAD professor told me himself (and he used to teach at SAIC) that SCAD runs on a very different platform, and a lot of the old[fashioned] schools don't think too highly of it, but I think its progressive. Don't get me wrong, I applied to Pratt and I'd LOVE to go there, but I would for no reason write off SCAD just because it's new. And it is well known. I never heard much of RIT till I came to this forum.</p>

<p>I am NOT RIT nuts. However, every rating of ID programs in the US usually mentions RIT in the top 10 or so. NONE, that I am aware of, note that SCAD is as highly rated or even ranked in the top 20. Perception becomes reality for employers.</p>

<p>I believe that a major poster here, RainingAgain, is very familiar with both RIT and SCAD. Maybe he can chirp in as to which school he likes better.</p>

<p>Frankly, if you had good grades, I would have recommended University of Cincinnati over all of those noted above because of their coop program.</p>

<p>Ahh I've got ya. I just had to ask, because you seem to mention RIT in almost every thread one way or another. Haha, I know what you mean now. Since you know so much about RIT, can you give me some admissions stats?</p>

<p>rebel, my daughter applied to their new media program last year and got accepted. However, I don't know the admission stats of ID in particular.</p>

<p>Notice I am not saying that RIT is necessarily better than SCAD as a program;however, it usually is ranked well for ID ( which I have never seen for SCAD) and is more well known for ID than SCAD since it has been around longer. Are these factors that you should consider? That will be up to each ready of this thread.</p>

<p>This website talks about art school specifically with ID programs: Core77.com</a> :: View Forum - students n' schools</p>

<p>I stumbled upon it while researching art schools in general, but it's very ID focused.</p>

<p>Thank u for you all. Yes, just like u said, I also know that RIT & PRATT are well known for much longer time. And both of them are ranked high years before. But the problem is I saw SCAD website wrote its ID graduate program ranked top 3 in the nation in 2008.
Savannah</a> College of Art and Design > 010308 SCAD ranked America’s best interior design graduate program</p>

<p>And SCAD is new but seems growing incredibly fast now.</p>

<p>So I am just confused of if it's truely that great to consider. I dont care if its good in the past, but I really wanna know if it is really good now and will be good for future after graduate. And how is the difference of the program compare with RIT & PRATT? Because I need to make a serious decision and I appreciate your suggestion & information.</p>

<p>If you are skeptical, than check out the book SCAD linked to on that page about ID programs. I don't believe they would say that AND post a link to the book if it weren't true. Personally I don't think you could go wrong with any of the 3 schools you are considering. I recommend visiting them and getting a feel for which one you like best.</p>

<p>Thank u, caressemh.</p>

<p>For some reason I'm unable to visit them at this moment, so I can only rearch the information & suggestion from someone knows that. </p>

<p>And u mentioned that SCAD runs a very different platform, so I am wondering how different is it? Especially for Industrial Design program. (Compare with RIT, PRATT)</p>

<p>Well I don't know much about industrial design (I'm majoring in illustration, lol) but when I talked with the SCAD professor who graduated from and previously taught at SAIC, he said that SCAD really places a lot more emphasis on art from a business and career aspect. It's more commercial, though skill, quality and execution are all very important. Schools like SAIC, Pratt and Yale are more traditional and also highly conceptual.</p>

<p>Basically it comes down to what you think you need the most. Do you think you need to be better at conceptualizing or the thinking behind the art? Or do you feel conceptually strong and want to focus more on learning how to apply your art in a real world setting?</p>

<p>I think both schools of thought obviously have their pros and cons. Presently I'm leaning more towards SVA or SCAD because I'm nervous about my job-getting skills and total lack of business sense, lol</p>

<p>To caressemh:</p>

<p>I got ur point! LOL~~~I think probably I've already made my decision! </p>

<p>Thanks a lot~~~~~~~~~~~</p>

<p>OK. I am a little iritated by a few posters on this site. Esp w/ regards to the SCAD Architecture Department.</p>

<p>First of all -it is utterly manipulative/ignorant to focus only on the negative side of an issue... and not "objective" as a lot of these posters claim. A lot of the rumors about SCAD were at one point based in fact - however - over the years they get more and more distorted. A lot of this "information" is entertainment now - not fact. It is sensational... like Brittany Spears shaving her head.</p>

<p>You might want to read a few Architecture Faculty resumes & see the work of both students and alum of this department before discounting it. As they say.... actions speak louder than words. SCAD Architecture alum are in offices globally...including the offices of Robert Stern, Zaha Hadid and HOK.</p>

<p>The majority of my class was hired before we even graduated! </p>

<p>The Architecture Faculty at SCAD have diverse experiences both in practice and in research. Most of the Architecture Faculty are award winning, published or exhibiting artists/designers. And, regardless of thier awards...or essays...or whatever...they are well connected in this field.</p>

<p>SCAD is constantly attracting artists from around the world. Unfortunately, they also attract a lot of gossip and slander. </p>

<p>If focusing on the negative helps the posters here to cope with their own failures or short comings in life...then by all means... continue to slander SCAD. Knock yourselves out.</p>

<p>Like everything in life - you need to exert some effort to be sucessful. This will be true in any environment... be it a community college, a university, working the drive-thru at McDonalds or putting on the green. </p>

<p>SCAD is not perfect - find me 5 organizations who are perfect (a college or otherwise). SCAD is a young school trying to work out the kinks. The beauty of a diamond is not diminished by a few specs of carbon........</p>

<p>Cost is high, scholarships low in comparison to cost. The school is always hiring new faculty and it is not because of expansion????????? Faculty seem to be at the mercy of the owners? </p>

<p>Like any school, if you think of attending, go there and visit, get the most compete, non-canned picture you can.</p>