<p>Yale ranks among the finest Graduate Fine Art Programs, I already know that's where I want to go to after getting my Bachelors for fine Arts. I actually want to go to an Ivy League for my masters but Yale's got the best program statistically I think. Anyways I want to know ahead how hard is it to get into their graduate program. It's better if I know now and I'm prepared because in High school I wasn't prepared at all and my grades were absolute crud. </p>
<p>Questions: How hard is it to get into Yales Fine Art Grad Program?</p>
<p>Question: This may be stupid, but like an Undergrad program would I need a Portfolio?</p>
<p>Question: Portfolio criterias for Grad programs?</p>
<p>Question: Is Parsons a good enough school to get into it's Graduate program? </p>
<p>Question: Any additional information I would need into getting into Yales program? </p>
<p>Question: Idk anything about GRE test for grads but does it come largely into play for a fine arts program? Especially into a selective school like Yale?</p>
<p>Oh, Btw I haven't even started college yet! But I want to be prepared, have a solid goal in mind, and have something to work towards starting now. So I would have a reason to keep my grades up and do whatever I can to get into the program.</p>
<p>1
It is extremely difficult to be accepted to Yale, for anything. Yet its MFA program is one of the more difficult programs for students to get accepted in. Thousands apply but only handfuls are accepted.</p>
<p>2
Yes.</p>
<p>3
Extremely powerful/competent work (according to how Yale would define powerful or competent) that shows that you have begun developing your own personal visual language.</p>
<p>4
It would depend on your major. From you listing parsons, I would assume that your studying design. Grad school for design is typically unnecessary.</p>
<p>5
If the acceptance rate is less than 5% it doesn’t mean that any person will get in if the apply 20 times. Yale acceptances are individual, the numbers are so low that they are rendered irrelevant. There’s no formula that’ll allow you to get in or than you being unique and uniquely good.</p>
<p>6
Irrelevant to art.</p>
<p>Finally:</p>
<p>Getting into an Ivy league school isn’t the kind of goal you need for art (maybe business school but not art). It’s also shallow. Honestly after rereading your post, I severely doubt you want to go to Yale for any reason other than its reputation. Are there any faculty members you would like to work with? Do you want to be in an environment where you engage in a highly cerebral dialogue with a group of peers? What kind of work do you see yourself making? I feel like if you took all those factors out, you’d still want to go to Yale just so you can say “I went to Yale”.</p>
<p>I hope you view graduate school as something more than a meaningless 80,000 trophy. The Ivy league is also typically abysmal for fine art other than Yale and Columbia. I know I’m being quite presumptuous now by stating all of this, but I don’t see anything in what you typed to make me believe otherwise and I really hate lecturing people so I wouldn’t say this for any reason than that I actually believe what I am saying. But to leave on a positive note, I will say though, you are quite ambitious and you have very long term goals. Those are very good traits in and of themselves. And really the only reason I responded to your post was because that ambition you have resonated with me on some level. I just wished you applied all of that energy and ambition to something worthwhile and more meaningful.</p>
<p>No, I do respect its high reputation and everything, but if it ranked as one of the best Fine Arts Graduate program and that’s what I’m deeply into and what I want to pursue then, yeah, my reason is not entirely reputable. I’d like to be a fine art major rather than design. I also want to go to an Ivy and experience it. They’re just a beautiful enviorment.</p>
<p>^
don’t do parsons for fine art, Period. It just isn’t a good school for the subject. Btw there are plenty of great fine art schools that are just as good as Yale or Columbia (UCLA, Cranbrook, SAIC, Mica, University of Indiana, Hunter etc)</p>
<p>I’ve already enrolled :l. I also got into CCA but my mom forced me into Parsons due to its reputable name.</p>
<p>Timkerdes, so glad the wonderful school I represent got a shout out! :)</p>