Ranking Art Schools

LaurieM62
Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:52:45 +0000

I think our problem is that my daughter is into fine arts. She had wanted to go to Yales as she studies there this past summer and received two A+ but they did not accept her. RISD I wonder how many of the students do actually go for fine arts. Illistration is is a whole seperate area. My daughter wants to go into Art Restoration and for that you need a strong fine arts base and to be truthful, I see very few really talented, even at the best of these schools. My worry with RISD is that first year work is amazing and then it seems to meld into a modern craze of smeared mess they call art. I would think we woudl have our breat taken away from the students work on the tours. They all boast museums but we never see the students work. I agree that the rankings are crazy as they are not even for undergraduate work and most are only ranked in certain areas. My daughter could have gotten a free ride from Cooper but when we toured they considered hair glue to the walls , art. I jut wish for the price tags, these schools woudl have real art departments and fine art majors and dorms with painting work space. The doorms we visited at RISD have not been updated since the 60’s and the halls alone with tape for art, disgracefull. I wish we had applied to the dual program with Brown but to late for that now. since they only hake about 12 I doubt her chances woudl have been good, even with a 4.2 GPA. she did not mkae Browns fine arts program