Ranking Art Schools

ArchDad
Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:27:14 +0000

Laurie - Please keep us all posted on how your daughter likes RISD !
My daughter is a HS Jr and is leaving for SCAD next week to spend 5 weeks at their Rising Star summer program.

As a disclaimer I am a Pratt Grad and was clearly hoping my daughter would follow in my footsteps. We visited Pratt and she LOVED it, SCAD and RISD we next on our trip list, with my firmly yankee daughter seeing SCAD as a distant 3rd. After our visit, I was ready to enroll of another degree in Architecture!!!

We were very impressed by the student work we saw, the adaptive re-use of SCAD’s buildings and the overall feeling of the school. SCAD became her #1 and she applied for Rising Star on the spot ! Now let me put this in perspective… my social butterfly is giving up her summer with friends, to spent it in school??? YIKES, I knew she was pumped.

Honestly, I’d love her to learn in this amazing place if that is what she really wants, and I’ll leave my Pratt preferences behind.