Non-Portfolio based art programs as a safety

uskoolfish
Wed, 24 Mar 2010 08:39:04 +0000

Hi switters! D has a portfolio already based on her current work. She needed to put it together for review for a summer program she applied for.

Thanks for your imput, but you misunderstood my intention. She is taking a portfolio development class currently at FIT and will probably attend one at Pratt next year as a junior. This summer she is either doing NYSSA or FIT. The following summer either Pratt pre-college or NYU.

My question was whether art students apply to other colleges that do not require a portfolio to get in? In other fields (like musical theatre) it is common and strongly recommended to have “non-audition” schools as back up in the mix.

Perhaps that is not the case with art because the acceptance rate in programs is so much higher.

As for AP art, she cannot take it junior year, but only senior year…which seems a little after the fact. She will probably want to take it in either case, but has also expressed disappointment that she has only taken Painting and Drawing in school and would have wanted to try something else in the arts like photography, media arts or sculpture. If she takes AP she cannot.

As a parent, I am concerned with her taking AP art because she will be taking other academic AP’s, will have college apps and her spring musical that she is hoping to have a lead in. I just woudl rather her not be overwhelmed senior year when many schools will not accept the AP credit for art anyway.

If she decides not to take it, my concern is whether that would be a negative for some schools.