Thank you for this thread.
My rising senior daughter has done very well in high school, with a 4.2 weighted GPA and a 1340 (so far) on SAT. She is also self-taught in art and has developed her own portfolio over the years. In high school she focused on band and academics, and will be leading the drumline her senior year. The schools she is interested to ideally get a job in 3-D animation for a company like Disney/Pixar or Dreamworks, or Blizzard (we live in Southern CA so these companies are not far from us) are, highest to lowest interest: Texas A&M Vizlab, USC, Chapman, Loyola Marymount, CSUF/CSULB (which are cheap and close) and possibly San Jose State. She checked out Drexel and did not like the Urban feel. She LOVED SMU as it was a very comfortable campus, friendly, with a lot of school spirit in the heart of Dallas. (She would study Creative Computation). So far we haven’t checked out RIT, should we? Thoughts? Also she does NOT want to attend an art school only as she wants a larger campus with continued opportunities for Pep/Marching band possibly.