SAIC vs CCA MFA Graphic Design

jchouston
Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:24:22 +0000

Wheaty & Loveblue:
Thanks. And I just got an acceptance email letter from PRATT! Not wait-listed after all. I haven’t received anything from SAIC or CCA concerning financial aid packages, but Pratt did give me a 10k scholarship!

Yale and Cranbrook are both major interest of mine. Yale because it’s Yale of course, but I also think they have the most appealing faculty. I’m a HUGE fan of at least two of their professors and I’m a even bigger fan of the history of the program and past professors. Also I will be able to take courses outside of art and design, the benefits of attending a traditional university. And the Elliot Earls led Cranbrook design progarm just produces such interesting work, the new day avant garde of the design world.

Pratt: I like the history of the program and the idea of being in New York.
CCA: I think the program maybe be too losely structured/ interdisciplinary for me, a student with a unrelated ungrad degree, but I love San Francisco.
SAIC: I like the interdisciplinary nature of the program and it has a great reputation.

For undergrad I went to Prairie View A&M University, a small HBCU outside of Houston. You probably have never heard of it, but it’s part of the Texas A&M system. I majored in Business Marketing.