Contrasting UArts

mom_of_alex
Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:49:51 +0000

Well said MichaelNKat. I agree with everything you have stated. I try to use this forum for information gathering in addition to what I find on my own. As far as dorms/apartments, meal plan or lack of, and location, those are all things that are what they are at different schools and if you don’t like what they have to offer, you don’t consider that school. Personally, I would like the typical college campus, dining hall, dorms, etc. but my daughter doesn’t feel that way and she’s the one going to school so it’s whatever she likes. She hates dining halls and loves the fact that UArts has apartments with kitchens. She pretty much does her own thing for meals at home now so it wouldn’t be much different. And honestly, I think you do end up spending more money on food when you’re on a mandatory meal plan than when you’re on your own. My older daughter was on a mandatory plan first two years of college which cost us somewhere between $3500 and $4000 a year. She’s in an apartment now and I give her much less money each month to cover both food and expenses.

But back to the visual arts program and acedemics. I too would like to know when sax’s daughter was a student. And where did she transfer? I have read some of the student journals and have gotten the impression that the classes are demanding and the students are being taught well. Any art school will have first year foundation classes and from what I have read in the UArts journals, the kids are not spending all year drawing lines. I can’t imagine a GD major wouldn’t be using a computer by sophomore year. I’ve seen examples of student work and have been impressed. It doesn’t appear to me from what I have seen that the classes are designed for kids with no art background. I think it would be hard to find many kids like that applying to a school like UArts.

I like the school from what I have seen so far but was just looking for some input from current visual art/design students if any are reading this forum. My daughter is pretty familiar with the school since she did a pre-college program there last summer and is doing a Saturday pre-college program currently. I just wanted to hear how the undergraduate program was. Any students out there?