Animation Programs with best foundational prep & job placement stats

moonpie
Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:14:17 +0000

My daughter sounds similar to yours. She graduated with 6 AP’s, and all other classes were honors. GPA was 4.3, ACT 30. Selected for Governor’s School for the Arts after junior year. All-state singer, cello all 4 years, section leader senior year, President of art club, junior senior year, special needs peer volunteer, 4 years, worked as an office assistant, cello teacher, and camp counselor during high school. Won local art competition, Scholastic Gold Key winner. Just giving stats FYI, not to brag… because that’s water under the bridge, but just to let you know what mattered. In the end, yes, grade for sure helped! But truly, it’s the portfolio that matters. We visited many of the schools on your list, and applied to SAIC (accepted $18,500/yr scholarship), Pratt ($26,000/yr ), SCAD ($18/yr- i think, they kept stacking scholarships at the end, and I don’t remember the final number). East Tn State -digital media design, (complete full ride, including room and board), Laguna ($13,000/yr). RISD/BROWN dual applicant-rejected. She was admitted to SVA, honors program with $12,500 a year scholarship. She also got $5000 a year work study. CalArts-Rejected. Visited Ringling, Parson’s and MCA, did not apply after visiting, not for her. In the end, after all the visiting, hand-wringing, and sleepless nights, she came down to SVA and Pratt. SVA was her #1 choice after visiting, and then it came down to money. In the end, we let her choose with her knowing she would not be living a NY lifestyle in NY! She has done very well. Loves it there, and was just selected to be an RA next year, which will now make it UNDER budget. Dreams do come true! (but she had to WORK for it).