| Lori,
Good advice.
He did that and only applied to schools with a history of NAAB accreditation, currently in good standing. (Except for Berkeley undergrad, -like your UMICH- but he's not interested there anymore). WIT and RWU are NAAB accredited. Also looked at the website with pass rates on the ARE exams for grads from every school but we couldn't make sense of it as we couldn't determine how many were re-takes, how long since graduation, etc. Not sure that info is very helpful anyway. There is another website that was interesting as it had budgets for arch departments, volumes in arch libraries, plus stuff like arch professor salaries by school. Some profs are doing much better than others....
I'd like him to go to a school that he will be challenged, yet thrive in.. And I admit, I'm obsessing over this. I do know he'll do fine where ever he goes.... Thankfully that decision is his, and only weeks away. |