<p>After reading this thread, Please be honest and give me a candid advice.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>Hello, I am a rising junior who is majoring chemistry and visual art at Duke. </p>
<p>My dad, when I talked him about going to an art institute, did not like the idea and wanted me to major sth that is related to science then go to a medical school after I graduate. I, too, thought that becoming a doctor then do drawing as a hobby was a cool option when I decided to go to Duke. However, now I know that this path is not the one that I heart. I want to do art. </p>
<p>One of the main reasons that I am considering Cooper Union, besides I really want to go there, is that my dad does not like the idea of transferring. He knows how hard it is to get into Cooper Union and if I get an admission letter from there, he will see how seriously I consider this entire issue of transferring and about my future. </p>
<p>I declared my major as Visual Art and Chemistry, so I have been taking quite a lot of studio art classes at Duke. I have taken 15 credit-worth visual art classes, which fulfills the transfer requirement for the school.
I talked about this issue with the art professors a lot, and some of them advised me to stay here as a chemistry, art double major than go to Art graduate school, but I want to spend another 2 years in the place where I can really learn the things I want to learn and enjoy myself doing them. </p>
<p>I have pretty high SAT score and good highschool GPA, but have a relatively low college GPA; I got all As and 1B for the art-related courses and am confident that I can get fabuluous recommedation letters from both of my highschool art teacher and a college art professor. I was sick for the freshman year so had to withdraw from all courses and come back to Korea, and for last semester I was sick again, so the GPA was relatively low... and now Orgo and neurosciece is messing up my GPA as well. </p>
<p>So my college GPA is 3.3 right now.</p>
<p>For other information:</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Asian(South Korea)</p>
<p>SAT1
CR:760
M:780
W:680</p>
<p>SAT2
Math:780
Chem:700
Bio:660</p>
<p>Highschool GPA:
4.0</p>
<p>Recommendation letters:
confident to have really good ones.</p>
<p>Sorry for this long… message, but recently I was really stressed out about this issue, so please understand me. </p>
<p>So... last question..</p>
<p>Do you think it's worth trying, taking a year off and starting making portfolio from this summer and applying for early decision transfer to Cooper Union? Im posting this because, Cooper Union is such a hard place to get into, and it is such a great risk for me to take...</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>