<p>Recently The Art Institute came to my high school to visit the art students who are or will be attending art as a major in college. Many other schools come like Tyler, Moore and such. But what drew my attention with The Art Institute is their reputation of fraud I've looked up previously. I know from first hand that The Art Institute isn't the best place to go to take classes in art. More likely is for those who fall for their wide media ad during 10a.m. in weekdays during the Jerry Springer Show. Or who aren't aware of what goes on there. Either way the same. Even now you can copy and paste the title of this post on Google. Look how many forum posts there are about The Art Institute's despicable ways of stealing innocent people's money. Taking advantage of grants. </p>
<p>Call me a hater if you want but, the truth lies somewhere. Sorry I offended people who attended there. It's fact.</p>
<p>The Illinois Institute of Art was very good many years ago. It’s still a respected school for photography but it’s not to be confused with SAIC.</p>
<p>yes,
The Art Institute of Boston;
School of the Art Institute of Chicago;
San Francisco Art Institute;
Kansas City Art Institute; are not affiliated with The Art Institutes.</p>
<p>I have to admit that I didn’t apply to SAIC or any of the other schools with “Art Institute” in their names because I was afraid it was affiliated with AI. </p>
<p>I really wish I knew that because when I did research I got a lot of mixed/confusing responses. That was some years ago, though.</p>
<p>Oh gosh, thanks for informing me. I was interested in AI in NY awhile ago, but was a bit wary of it because it was so commercial. I finally gave up when I found out it’s NY campus only offered an Associate’s degree, but my friend has interviewed at that place and said she would like to attend there. Now that I know this, I’ll try to warn her about going there if she’s accepted.</p>
<p>Nope, New Hampshire Institute of Art. That’s what the "I’ & “A” stand for. In that order. Otherwise it would be NHAI, and it’s not. Don’t know which New Hampshire school you were talking about. Do they have an Art Institute there too?</p>
<p>I applied and was accepted by the Art Institutes, Minneapolis. I liked the tour but the lack of studio classes was a bummer to me. Even though I am going for graphic design I think a strong fine arts foundation is important. I only received $500 in aid so when I was offered more elsewhere I told them I would not be attending and not accepting the aid money. I also asked for a refundable deposit back. This was the worst part of the experience! My adviser guy tried to talk me out of the place that offered me more money but insulting the institution and telling me that I probably didn’t really get that much in scholarships (he said they were probably loans. Because I don’t know the difference between loans and scholarships). When I argued my mind was made-up and asked for the refundable deposit back he was reluctant, but agreed. Then after waiting weeks for the refund I tried calling and he started avoiding my calls. I finally had to call other advisers and people above him to tell them what was going on. So yeah, I wouldn’t recommend even though I didn’t even deal with professors. And I did get my refund by the way!</p>
<p>A loan you have to pay back. They take it off your tuition, but then you get a payment plan later. A scholarship is money they deduct from your tuition. You do not have to pay it back. (Sorry if you were really being ironic in your post - don’t mean to insult you).</p>
<p>Congrats on getting your deposit back. I have never run into a art school that needed to insult another to get you get to attend theirs. We did have someone at UNH tell us that they lose all the best students to NHIA.</p>
<p>I was being ironic but upon re-reading I can see how it could be misinterpreted. And you cannot express your tone over the internet, hopefully they are developing that technology. Haha
And I think it was a really odd move to insult my other choice, mainly because I can’t imagine that working on anyone. I mean, high school seniors take their college choices seriously so it’s not easy to be coerced into another school after your mind is made up. But hopefully that guy doesn’t work there anymore. Haha</p>