<p>I received my acceptance for SMFA about a month ago, and I have since been waiting for my Tufts decision. Today I got a letter from SMFA saying "Congratulations on your acceptance to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, and welcome!"
The rest of the letter just talks about SMFA and Boston, blah blah.</p>
<p>But the thing is... I haven't received anything from Tufts yet regarding their decision.
Is this just some poor wording about the connection in the BFA program to Tufts (since SMFA students in the BFA program take courses at Tufts) or does this mean I was accepted to both schools for the dual degree program? I don't want to get my hopes up yet if it is the former.</p>
<p>Received the same thing as an email today. I haven’t been home to check mail in last week.
Have no idea what it means, sounds like they are clarifying admission to 4yr vs. 5 yr.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m a freshman, and I was so excited to go to Tufts with the SMFA dual degree. Within a month my dream became a disaster.
There is something the admissions won’t tell you. How many students DROP the program!! Even my dean admitted that it is a way of advertising the school to attract more people , something that looks good on a brochure but in actuality is not a great program at all.</p>
<p>SMFA SUCKS!! It’s far, instructors are horrible(depends actually , there are good instructors but many are not), the students at SMFA are horrible. Most of them are pot smokers, and they take really easy courses at Tufts (i.e intro art history, english) and say it’s hard. For instance, most SMFA students will take 3 academic course at tufts and do nothing else- they don’t even do art during those times and say they are struggling. Also, it takes 2 hours round trip to SMFA from Tufts. MOST dual degree admitted students end up dropping the art degree because of the incompatibility of the scheduling, geographical reason, and the level of art instruction</p>
<p>i went to the smfa accepted students day. I wrote a review (here is the linkhttp://talk.collegeconfidential.com/visual-arts-film-majors/1119187-school-museum-fine-arts-smfa.html) But this is briefly why i think it is the biggest joke:</p>
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<li>The teachers are flaky. They really are into the whole “feelings” thing. To put it bluntly, the types of kids that go there and the types of teachers that teach there are the reasons art students have the stereotype that they do (uneducated, and just sit around thinking and think they are the most intellectual kid there is).</li>
<li>it is one building. Tiny.</li>
<li>Most people don’t live in dorms. SMFA actually does not have any dorms. They share with mass art but apparently it is cheaper to rent an apt. which significantly takes away from the college experience. </li>
<li>they also don’t have their own dining area. also shared with mass art.</li>
<li>the dual degree is really difficult and most drop out.</li>
<li>facilities are not taken care of. at all. the bathroom smelled disgusting. </li>
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<p>Sorry, this sounded really harsh, but i was so surprised by how ridiculous this college was. my mother and i left after 2 hours.</p>