<p>D was waitlisted at RISD. Does anyone have experience with this and what her chances will be after May 1st? She was told she is in the next group to be accpeted. How many spots typically open up and does your chances for grants/scholarship greatly diminish?</p>
<p>Kakie, RISD has 5 tiers for their waitlist. If your daughter is in teir one, she has a decent chance. For any other tier, it isn't good. She needs to call RISD and find out where she stands on the waitlist. </p>
<p>For what it's worth, last year, they took very few off the waitlist and didn't go into even the second tier. Also, a tier was about 20 people.</p>
<p>She was told she was on the first tier and that it consisted of 30-40 people.
We have an incredibly low EFC, and my concern is that she won't qualify for even need based grants or scholarship at this point. Any thoughts on how that works?</p>
<p>If she is in the first tier, she has a shot. Frankly, if you don't get any decent need based aid, you will have to evaluate whether going into a lot of debt is worth RISD.</p>
<p>She has a chance at getting in,but little to no chance of getting any financial aid. My daughter was accepted last year and we had a low EFC with three kids in college, but she got no offer of financial aid. With alot of help from family and loans , she is there now and loving it. We are hoping she will a least get a small scholarship for the coming year;something they do with many entering sophomores. I cannot say that we would have done it w/o family help. $160,000 worth of loans is too much for anyone to undertake.</p>
<p>Kakie, read the thread in this forum entitled,"Is it worth it going to major debt for the arts."</p>
<p>She got word from RISD that she has a chance of being accepted off the waitlist, but that all f.aid has been distributed for the year... I think this makes our decision easy. No RISD unfortunately. I think she is now deciding on Pratt. Did not care for MICA's lack of campus town feel. Did not think the trade off of Baltimore would be worth it (vs having NYC in your backyard). She also really liked the Communication Design program there. I'll check the other thread re: going into debt. Thanks.</p>