Most of the College major forums here at CC have a thread each year for students/parents to announce their college decisions. So I thought I would start one here!
My D will attend Temple University’s Tyler School of Art/Honors program. Was also accepted at SAIC, Drexel, and Syracuse. Undecided major.
I received full tuition to MICA and am super excited to attend!
D will attend Pratt for communications design. Was also accepted to MICA, MCAD, U of MN and U of IA. Is very excited for August and definitely glad to have all that admissions stuff over with!!!
I received full tuition to RISD for the Illustration program & super pumped for this fall!
My other choices were MICA(illust), Ringling(Computer Anim.), SAIC(Studio Art).
Yay! Wow to all, especially those who received grants and scholarships. Good idea for a thread, @honestmom.
My S will be attending MCAD this fall and received the presidential scholarship. Also accepted to KCAI, VCUarts, Tyler, and Winthrop University. He hopes to major in printmaking and minor in art history.
Congrats to all soon-to-be freshmen posting here! Exciting times!
S will attend SJSU as an animation major. Was accepted to Chapman, Loyola Marymount Univ, RIT, Syracuse, Drexel, DePaul, Champlain, CSULB, CSUF, CSUN, all in animation, and UCSD in ICAM and UCI in CS computer game design.
My daughter will attend Ringling majoring in game art design. After considering LMU, SCAD, CSU (Fullerton and LB), AAUsf she chose Ringling. We are quite excited about her choice and hope everything works out well for her.
I will be attending USC School of Cinematic Arts as a Critical Studies major, with a full-tuition scholarship! I might double major with Narrative Studies, or double minor in Screenwriting and Forensics & Criminality. Was also accepted to Kenyon College for Film Studies and the University of Pennsylvania for Cinema Studies & Criminology (was planning to double major).
@LayraSparks that’s so interesting about the interest in forensics and criminology because D2 was looking into those programs last year but has come to realize after much soul searching that she is also a creative who needs to do film/animation/screenwriting. I’m still not sure how it all will turn out for her LOL. She applies to college in the fall. I’ll definitely let her know it’s possible to do all of the above.
@Mamelot It’s very much possible to do both! During my interviews with both USC and Penn, my interviewers seemed very impressed that I was planning to study something else besides film. They said it will be a great advantage later on, as so many people in film programs have all the technical knowledge, but they don’t have stories to tell, and they don’t have other interests that they could explore in their writing/filmmaking/etc. I also feel that my interest in both cinema and criminology is what got me into Penn, because it seemed like an unlikely combination! I hope everything works out for your D!
Thanks for the info. @LayraSpeaks and congrats to you: Penn is tops for criminology - even though you are going elsewhere it speaks very highly of your accomplishments. Yes, it IS an interesting combo and actually one that should render tons of interesting narratives. I figured that D2 enjoyed criminology not so much for the statistical analyses but for the stories.
My son was accepted to Penn for Fine Arts. He’ll be attending Penn after a gap year. He might switch to Digital Media Design since he wants to do game design, but I could see him going into any number of areas at Penn (including Cinema, CS, and even English) since he’s a designer who doesn’t know what he wants to do yet.
He was fortunate to get a yearly corporate National Merit Scholarship and that, along with Penn’s generous need-based aid, will leave us likely paying only a few thousand a year. We are very grateful.
He applied to 23 (!) schools in a wide variety of majors including computer game science, animation, game design, digital media, film, and even engineering. He was accepted to 16 schools, but the flexibility, gap year, and amazing f. aid won him over for Penn.
@sbjdorlo - Congrats to your son (and you)! Penn’s DMD program is hard to get into and it’s a great program. As a matter of fact, my CC-name, “digmedia,” came from this program! I should have made it digimedia so that people don’t pronounce it like I am “digging” media. In my mind, it’s “didj-media.”
Thanks, @digmedia. I guess I always pronounced the G softly anyways. 
My son’s not actually in DMD; he was accepted to Fine Arts. However, we’ve talked with the head of the DMD at length, and she said my son could transfer in at the end of freshman year if he wanted to. She gave us lots of options to consider. I guess we’ll see what he does when he gets there.
I can pretty much guarantee if he’d applied to DMD, he would not have gotten into Penn because of weakish math grades, rigor, and scores.
I’m attending Point Park University for their BFA in Cinema Production. I was accepted to Emerson, SCAD, and Chapman, but Point Park offered the best financial aid.