<p>worried111 - This community might help lots: <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/community/parsons/%5B/url%5D">http://www.livejournal.com/community/parsons/</a> </p>
<p>I hear great things about that school. not so much on the fine arts side of it, but if she is into design, she'll definately love it.</p>
<p>halfsorry, </p>
<p>the girl I know who is at Cooper actually messed up her hometest.. she did something in an attempt to 'go out of the box' and ended up breaking some rule. she got disqualified but she called them incessantly and begged. I think it was just an honest mistake (but still, they don't seem like compassionate types) so she can't be blamed for wanting to get in so badly, I suppose. but anyway, they ended up reversing the disqualification because she was so determined to go! So I would say go ahead and send the stuff that wasn't in your envelope. I think she told them something like.. 'Cooper is the only school I want to go to, it's the only one I applied to, I would do anything to go here.' I think they're odd like that.. bend rules when they feel like it..</p>
<p>hey..so if you get disqualified ...they actually tell you ...for example if the painting i sent in was really too damp to qualify (which it damn well better not have been) they would actually tell me i was disqualified insteady of just rejecting me?</p>
<p>come to think of it ....i'd probably rather just be rejected</p>
<p>o by the way ...i'll post pics of my stuff too---that is when my camera stops hating me so much</p>
<p>I can't remember how they notified her.. but it might have been a call, yeah. I think they do tell you that you're disqualified and not rejected.</p>
<p>and cool, looking forward to seeing your stuff.</p>
<p>OH thank god. I'm actually in the making for a secondary packet. Cooper was the only school I applied to as well. Wait. maybe they haven't gotten to my hometest yet. gahhh. </p>
<p>Michaelangelina - I tried to private message you, but your settings wouldn't allow me to send anything. Hmmm. </p>
<p>Weile - Deviantart said it was forbidden to let me see the work ...</p>
<p>Also, I like how we sort of took over this thread. haha.</p>
<p>I just asked my mom and she said that they sent a letter to the disqualified girl. not sure when, exactly, they sent it - but I think (?) it was a separate notification.</p>
<p>I haven't checked the private messages today, so I don't know if you saw, but I put new links.</p>
<p>yeeeah, we did take over the thread, but now that most art school applications are in there doesn't seem to be much else to talk about.. lol. too bad we've got to keep ourselves busy here until.. god.. april..</p>
<p>yes..we are def dominating this thread...although Performing arts is really giving us a run for our money...</p>
<p>also- at first i wasn't sure what a private post link was...but then i realized my settings were preventing me for recieving "private mail". ...so i changed them so that i'm receive anything now (i think)</p>
<p>back to cooper haha-- did either of you design your envelope.....i had been planning to the whole time...but i never had the chance until about an hour before i had to catch a train. I was really rushed so i thought i'd just drip paint where the envelope is sealed. But it really was not working out...so i resolved to smear black paint all over the envelope, put masking tape around the seams and distress it a bit... i guess it turned out alright...but i wrote "it's what's inside that counts" at the seal just incase.</p>
<p>I had figured everyone did something the the package, but i guess thats not the case. When i got to admissions i saw the huge pile of envelopes and literally all of them were white ....the lady who took mine gave me a look..i'm not sure if the stark contrast between mine and the others is good or bad..but i guess there's no going back now.</p>
<p>I never even considered doing anything to mine. I wouldn't have had time anyway, hah... I just really didn't care much about it, seemed like it could come off needlessly earnest if I really went overboard and made a collage or sewed stuff to it or something. Maybe I should have, I dunno.</p>
<p>in some stupid way, and I'm probably just equivocating my not doing anything to it, I like the idea of it looking like all the rest of them and then speaking for itself when it is opened. it's kind of like how people all look the same but some are a bit different when you get to know them. there's those hipster types who look arty and cool but who've got nothing of substance on the inside.</p>
<p>of course, none of that applies if they hate all my stuff anyway, haha.</p>
<p>I was going to put a long piece of ribbon on it (about 6 feet in length) and have it just flow off my packet (since someone I knew was going to drop it off) ... but couldn't find the ribbon, and was running short on time. There was nothing really conceptual about the ribbon ... just that I like things that hang of of things. haha.</p>
<p>I like that though.. noticable but subtle.</p>
<p>subtle is key. oh, I never got the private message .. Maybe I'm destined never to see your RISD work? .. eheh.</p>
<p>ahhh, this site is being annoying.. I've made the links so many times over that I'll just go ahead and give you the deviant art gallery link. i didn't want to do that, because I kind of don't like when people give a whole gallery because it's saying.. 'hey go look at all my work and be really impressed by meee..' but I don't care now, sick of all the repetitive linking! (the risd ones are the top three under 'recent deviations.')
<a href="http://weile.deviantart.com/%5B/url%5D">http://weile.deviantart.com/</a></p>
<p>and that better work!!</p>
<p>wow...your work is really great, your emotion comes across so well. the first few are my favorites....(i have to say i was quite glad to not see any more anime)</p>
<p>ahaha! that's ironic because I spent all of 8th & 9th grade drawing anime!</p>
<p>I actually learned how to draw and shade clothing folds through anime. it was at that point that I realized that my realistic bodies with anime heads looked very stupid and that I should just do real.. art..</p>
<p>i never clean out that gallery so there are old anime pictures in the back of it that I like laughing at now and then.</p>
<p>i cringe too when I hear someone my age saying, 'yeah, I like drawing anime,' or worse, 'I think I'm gonna start drawing anime.' ahhhh.. why people do it beyond a certain point I have no idea..</p>
<p>halfsorry - the risd ones are now the 3rd, 4th, and 5th on the list because I just added two more things. stupidly right after I told posted the link, heh.</p>
<p>i'm attempting to join deviant art so that i can show you people some of my work...but the site keeps telling me to submit my email address and then click the link in the mail they send me.....so i submit my address (spelled properly and all) and i get no email ...it's driving me insane....</p>
<p>you wouldn't by chance know what i'm doing wrong?</p>
<p>do you have a junk mail filter? If you do, mail from places you register at will automatically get sent there and you have to go retrieve it. if that isn't the problem, I can't think of what else it could be.. I registered there in 2002 and I don't remember anything about it.</p>
<p>you could also try Photobucket.com - it's a free image-hosting site. it uploads pictures from your computer and puts them in a little gallery. other people can't see the gallery page, but it provides the url for each image and you could just post some of those.</p>
<p>Wow! I absolutely love your "how - do - you - do -" self portrait as well as everything else! I see a hint of egon schiele. I love his art. I'd be surprised if both Cooper and RISD didn't accept you. </p>
<p>oh, and flickr.com is also a good free image hosting place as well. </p>
<p>oh .. and three people on the cooper union livejournal community got in early dec. wow.</p>
<p>ok ...thanks i'll try those sites...</p>
<p>yes i see the egon schiele thing also....it's funny you mentioned El greco and Schiele because those are some of my favorite artists</p>
<p>just out of curiousity what other schools did you two apply to?</p>
<p>Well, I only applied to Cooper this year ... if all doesn't go as hoped, I'll apply to schools that have rolling admissions for the spring. Like Pratt or something ... Maybe Parsons? And I'll try again for Cooper the following year. I'm dead set on that school.</p>
<p>I applied to MICA and RISD. I;ve gtten accpeted to MICA but am still waiting to hear from RISD. I think i may be able to get scholarship money from MICA but when you think of it, 4 thousand dollars or whatever doesn't hold a candle to what Cooper gives you. RISD doesn't really give out scholarships at all. </p>
<p>MICA.. the problem with MICA is that I hate Baltimore. It's kind of seedy and weird.. just didn't like it, neither did some of the students we talked to. However, they have one of the best painting programs, and what I've seen of their student work impresses me more than any other school. ..but I can't get over not wanting to spend four years of my life in Baltimore..!</p>
<p>I'm finally beginning to realize that the insane expense of RISD maybe isn't worth going there.. it's just crazy. we could take out loans but they'd be gigantic loans.</p>
<p>so suddenly I'm thinking, oh crap, what am I going to do if (or.. heh, when) I don't get into Cooper?! I haven' t known about it long enough to get dead-set on it, but now I'm kind of worried. until recently, Cooper was just a silly long-shot, I never really thought about it liek RISD or MICA, as if it was an actual possibility.</p>
<p>I'm wondering where the three of us would fit in among the other applicants. To me you both seem very serious and invested in art, more so than anyone I go to high school with. now what I don't know is - because I think in some ways we're similar - whether we are typical of all the Cooper applicants, or whether we ahead of most of them because, for one, we cared enough to come to this site. Or maybe they'd like one of us and hate the other two, or like two and not one for reasons I couldn't decipher..</p>
<p>still have no idea where I stand in all of this... it's maddening!</p>