<p>I just got tired seeing all the posts that deal with musical theater programs. Thus, thought I would start this thread for visual arts programs.</p>
<li>RISD</li>
<li>Pratt Institute</li>
<li>Parsons College of Design</li>
<li>School of Art Institute in Chicago</li>
<li>Univ of the Arts in Phily
6 Art Center College of Design in California</li>
<li>Cleveland Institute of Art</li>
<li>Columbus College of Art</li>
<li>Ringling School of Art and Design</li>
<li>Rochester Institute of Technology</li>
<li>Syracuse University</li>
<li>Carnegie Melon</li>
<li>School of Visual Arts in NY</li>
<li>Minneapolis College of Art</li>
<li>California College of Art</li>
<li>Otis School of Art and Design</li>
<li>Memphis School of Art</li>
<li>School of Visual Arts in NY</li>
<li>Mass College of Art</li>
</ol>
<p>i applied to cooper union for early decision for fine arts. not extremely optimistic, but we'll see...</p>
<p>i took the home test...the six visual problems. i'm not sure if it was sufficient. didn't start it until after vacation (wish i hadn't gone). a lot of collage work, printmaking, one painting, did a transfer of a drawing with gel medium...and bulled my way through to fulfill the other drawing requirement. did not sleep last night and sent it all out this morning. very tired.</p>
<p>question myself very much. hope there're other anxious cooper applicants out there.</p>
<p>taxguy, where is Cooper Union on the top 20 list of art schools? :)</p>
<p>palpableint, i also applied cooper as an ed applicant.........sent my hometest & portfolio today. post office's closing time was 5:00 and I got there barely in time. it was a close call. i wish the best of luck to you :D </p>
<p>what other school are you applying for?</p>
<p>i am planning to sent into..
RISD, SVA, PRATT, PARSONS and..FIT.</p>
<p>I left out Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and Cooper Union. I left out Cooper Union because it is such as small school that it didn't occur to me. Certainly, it should be added however. I don't know why I left out MICA, especially living in Maryland where MICA also resides. I must have had a senior moment.</p>
<p>I should note that there are plenty of other programs that are good such as Towson University. SUNY Puchase in NY, et al. but are not rated in the top 25 or so by US News and World Report.</p>
<p>Also FIT deserves special recognition especially for fashion related majors. In</p>
<p>MICA is a good addition. My daughter was admitted there 5 years ago, though went to RISD. </p>
<p>I would also add Kansas City Art Institute. Doesn't get a lot of notice but seems to have a good program from our virtual inspection plus conversation at a National Portfolio Day. They offered a merit scholarship to my daughter, but she really didn't want to be in the middle of the middle of the country.</p>
<p>I applaud anyone who tries out Cooper Union. My daughter came down with tonsilitis the day the home test spex arrived. She had various teachers lined up to cut her some slack and was ready to go but couldn't. It would have been 10 days of hell. It's easier sledding (but still very very tough) for students who are in an arts-oriented high school, which is likely to make some accommodations, and much tougher for kids carrying a full AP-laden academic load in math, science, social science, etc. Cooper admits only something like 5% of applicants.</p>
<p>I also think that for many students, it helps if they get some good advice in preparing their portfolios, including figuring out how to weed and improve it. For my daughter, the biggest last-minute thing she had to do was those 3 pencil drawings for RISD.</p>
<p>I should add that one reason Kansas City Art Institute doesn't show up in some rankings is that it does not offer MFA programs, and those rankings are for MFA degrees. KCAI offers BFA only (last time I checked).</p>
<p>Another program to consider is Boston University. Also in Boston area, there is a joint fine arts program between Boston Fine Arts Museum and Tufts University. My daughter met a couple of students from there and got good reports about it.</p>
<p>l0ve0fgod,
i'm applying to pratt (brooklyn campus), risd, carnegie mellon CFA, and the fine arts program at university of illinois in champaign-urbana. u of i is supposed to have a very decent program. this whole art school thing...has been a strange transition. i used to be hell-bent on going to pre-med. and then...dunno what happened.</p>
<p>good luck with your cooper app.
their stats are 60 accepted out of 1200 applicants. makes one sweat, eh?</p>
<p>D was "invited" last year to apply early decision to Cooper Union as a result of showing her portfolio at one of their open houses. She still didn't get in (home test was a killer and she had to cancel Christmas travel plans) but just getting "invited" to apply was a real confidence booster as to the quality of her portfolio. She is now very happy at Pratt.</p>
<p>that's like the ratio of winning the lottery. for me at least. </p>
<p>i have applied to cooper as a freshmen. does anyone know if cooper accepts only senior high school students as a refreshmen undergraduate? or.. have I just put myself into competing with graduate/transfer/college students from other art schools?</p>
<p>had an off campus interview with pratt last week. unexpectedly, i got the highest evaluation on portfolio, but it occured to me that everyone who interviwed got same feedbacks as i have. hmm. it yet only makes me question if Pratt admissions are easily impressed. </p>
<p>will be greatly appreciate if anyone posted a site of undergraduate art student's work. a personal site/randomly discovered web/etc will work. :)</p>
<p>i really didn't know how to feel about pratt...the brooklyn campus and everything. but i know some amazing older folk who came out of there. apparently it was THE school to go to when they were young budding artists. recognition seems to have shifted more to risd recently, but i assume the faculty are always exceptional...that's what seemed attractive about it. AND it's a skip away from the skyscrapers (which don't exist in vermont...ha). i'm happy for D (daughter?). hearing about her gives me more incentive to go there.</p>
<p>it seems with art...it's hard to go wrong as long as you have some inherent motivation. it relies a lot on that personal intellect that really isn't valued in standardized testing. at least, i think of it that way...i didn't exactly get a perfect score on my SATs...and i was satisfied just enough not to ever set my eyes on them again. (and i don't think that approach will disqualify me or anyone else from "making a difference in the world"...hehe.)</p>
<p>anyway, it's all very exciting. i'm beginning to acknowledge the fact that not getting into cooper...is not the end of the world, and it might be for something just as good (if not better).
thanks.</p>
<p>alex kanevsky. do a google search on him. he's a professional painter. i took a painting class my freshman year...he's what got me started in fine arts. his work...ah.</p>
<p>I also was "invited" to apply to cooper ed.... but i chose not to because i(though it's hard to believe) i wasn't sure i absolutely want to go to school there...Do you think theres a big disadvantage to applying to Cooper regular decison?</p>
<p>o and also i'm a bit confused about the home test situation...i realize the timing issue is a vital part of it...but if you look at the website i seems as though not everyone receives the test on the same day....is everyone expected to postmark their home tests by the same day?</p>
<p>Don't know if cooper expects everyone to postmark their hometest by the same day, but I do know they specifically gave out intstructions in the hometest packet that students return their stuff promptly before the due date & time. (I had a bit concern turning mine, since I live in a area of different time zone)</p>
<p>Q: What does it mean when hometests from art schools says: "mail in your hometest in the original form." ? I figure it would mean that they want it....in the original form, as the drawn paper itself? </p>
<p>are you sure sure? eek. then I am..really..disqualified!!!!!!! >_<
oh wow. haha. </p>
<p>I have sent in slides AND in a CD-Rom form(for hometest AND portfolio), JUST to be safe. I asked the cooper union's admissions-specifically- "It says that I have to send my hometests in a 'original form'? Do you guys mind if hometest&portfolio is in slide/CD-rom form?" </p>
<p>"we don't care. just send it by any form."</p>
<p>whenever I call cooper, the phone conversation of me asking questions..lasts about 1 minute or so. I think..they're really bugged about students calling them with stupid/oblivious questions about admissions.</p>
<p>Cooper Union can be a really unfriendly school sometimes....i'm absolutely dying to go there but-- from my experiences applying and going to the on campus portfolio reviews i can tell you that they really are not motivated to treat prospective students kindly or make their program seem special (obviously because they already know they're the best and because they offer full rides)..</p>
<p>perhaps what the phone guy meant was that you can send the originals and the cd.........did you send painting or illustration on cd...or just graphic art...because i don't see how they could expect to receive graphic art any other way</p>
<p>just out of curiousity could you tell me some of the ed home test questions....they're different from the reg decision questions...but i'd love to hear them nonetheless</p>
<p>o wait i'm reading ur post again....you didn't send in ANY originals?....i think part of the whole home test challege is fitting your work into the envelope....so that might be a problem.....but hey ...if you really love cooper ..maybe you could apply regular decision?</p>