SCAD rated Biggest Rip off in America?

artsmarts
Thu, 12 Jul 2012 06:24:59 +0000

Re the SCAD ranking. I suspect SCAD’s ranking here also would reflect that most of the respondees were probably more recent grads who tend to have lower salaries/incomes than older people who have worked in the field longer. However as I said ranking art schools for graduate ROI along with all other schools would tend to give art schools a lower ranking anyway. If you pull out those who teach (which I’m sure wasn’t done in this survey) you would probably find an even lower ROI. But while interesting I don’t think that return on investment is a major criteria for most art school attendees except perhaps for those focusing on what we used to call “commercial” arts.

Now I’d like to comment on something taxguy posted:
“No, hanging around a lot of black, chinese, tuti-fruity etc.people don’t scare me”

First of all taxguy your use of “don’t” in this sentence says a lot about you as well as the tuti-fruity comment. Knowing how you usually write, this was an intentional slur. The tuti-fruity comment is beyond defense.

Your attempt at stating your openness with a sentence like this only points out just how closed-minded you really are and I would suspect that you aren’t all that comfortable being around people who are different than you. While we all want our kids in safe environments it’s hard to sort out how valid your concerns about a campus are when you respond in this manner. I agree with Raining Again that it certainly doesn’t do anyone’s child good by shielding them from poverty or people living in hardship. In fact for art students it’s not a bad idea to be exposed to those in poverty for a few reasons. But I digress…

This comment of yours is offensive and not helpful. Personally I would much rather my child see the real world as it exists poverty and all, than only be exposed to Beverly Hills campus settings and the “good” part of Manhattan. Why? Because I want my child to go out into the world armed with a good open heart and a realistic understanding of the world. Now there was one other point, hmmm what was that. Oh, yeah, and I don’t want to raise a bigot.