<p>I was wondering about your daughter's experience with the foundation year at DAAP? </p>
<p>With DAAP admission being solely academic based and all the freshmen having to take the same classes, did your daughter find that she had to go over a lot of material that she had already learned?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>No, my daughter had to work like a horse,which is her normal policy anyway. My wife, who was a well-known designer felt that the foundation curriculum was terrific. My daugter worked like a dog and put in a number of all nighters.</p>
<p>She did well though ending up with a 3.6 freshmen GPA.</p>
<p>Congratulations on your daughter's success. </p>
<p>My son might not like the work involved, but I'm glad to hear it was a challenging curriculum.</p>
<p>Sketchy, Every top school design program had their kids working like dogs in their foundation year. This was a consistant theme found in Pratt Institute, CMU, RISD,RIT, etc.</p>
<p>taxguy -
congrats to your d for such a nice start. i'm happy to say our spawn found the same success through hard work. i was also very pleased to find him balancing the rigors of the DAAP w/ quite a busy social scene...intramural sports, clubs, new girlfriend and buddies....so long as he maintains grades, scholarships I can't throw any stones at him from my glass house. </p>
<p>the one thing that continues to shine through about the daap is that these kids really enjoy what they are doing, understand why they are there and appreciate what it's going to take to make a successful college experience. </p>
<p>have a great summer, continued good luck to your d and maybe we'll see you when we unload them for autumn qtr.</p>
<p>S</p>
<p>Hi Hardknox, good to hear from you. Congrats to your son. He must have worked hard. I know my daughter did.</p>
<p>Have a great summer yourself.</p>