<p>Hey everybody! I was accepted this year to attend The Cooper Union for arch. This year, they accepted only 23 students (18 first year, 5 transfer) out of a pool of about 600-700 applicants. So yes, it is highly selective. You seem to be very focused on your grades, but I don’t think you should be. Cooper claims that the average grades of first year arch students is somewhere from a B to a B+. I had about a 3.4 and a 2180 on the SAT. But what they really want to see is how you think in response to the hometest. They want creative, clever solutions which reflect that you will succeed as an arch student. </p>
<p>If you have specific questions about the hometest, feel free to ask me. I’ll post mine here, and if you’d like I can post some more that I’ve found online from other admitted students.
[WM</a> _ Cooper Union Architecture Hometest 2012 - a set on Flickr](<a href=“http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/75484502@N02/sets/72157629456340927/]WM”>http://www.■■■■■■■■■■/photos/75484502@N02/sets/72157629456340927/)</p>