| My daughter isn't in Vis com, but is in the art school. When we went to her first portfolio day her junior year she initially thought she'd go to a RISD, Univ of Chicago, Cooper Union, etc. type school. She was turned off by the art schools because they were "too arty" and an education seemed secondary. Additionally, my daughter was an A student, social, and the kids in line with her at the art schools were a bit more off-center than she saw herself. If you looked at my daughter, you wouldn't necessarily know she was in the art school. In fact, she is also doing a minor in the Business school. This is, perhaps, a long way of saying that Kate wanted to study art with well-rounded academically-talented students, and that is what Wash U offers... alone. Carnegie-Mellon which is the only other school we found with both art and academic reputation consists of a campus made up very-much of either/or. Engineers are one group, art/performers another. |