Suggestions for industrial design?

mackinaw
Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:03:50 +0000

Liland wrote (missed this before):

Mackinaw, when you said that most of the schools process the applications fairly quickly, do you mean that admissions are on a rolling basis, or do art colleges follow the April 1 notification date?

Of the 5 schools to which my daughter applied – all RD – she heard from three of them in February and March (KCAI, SCAD, MICA) and the remaining two (CMU, RISD) more or less around April 1. I think that rather than the early ones being rolling admissions, as you find at many state schools, they were more akin to what is referred to as “early write.” “Early write” is when an adcom decides that certain applicants are very certain to be near the top of the admissions pool no matter what, and they try to get a jump on the competition by “writing early” (offering an early acceptance). This happened to my son also in a couple of cases (not art schools).