Temple BFA vs MICA Animation

BrooklynRye
Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:38:49 +0000

@Mamelot - I like your whole line of thinking and the way the family worked out your daughter’s art school choice with her steering the ship. My daughter was accepted at several top dedicated art schools in the Northeast. She is really struggling with her choice. She is going in as Drawing & Painting major but has interests in Industrial Design and possibly Graphic Design. All of the top schools, including shockingly RISD, have offered her substantial scholarships so money is fortunately not the major criterion. However, she remains very torn. I don’t think she had that aha-moment you hope your kid has when they see THE school. There were schools she really did not like, but none she absolutely loved. Pratt is close to home, close to NYC and with great placement and contacts. RISD is kind of the Princeton of art schools and it is tough to turn them down. But she did the precollege there and is afraid Providence will get old quickly. She’s also afraid that with its international reputation RISD attracts a lot of rich internationals who may not be as academically rigorous and some who may be extremely cliqueish. She liked Tyler, but mainly because she found it refreshing to have a real college campus and experience opportunity. Not sure Tyler measures up to RISD or Pratt though. Also, Pratt & RISD offer at least some academic opportunities. She will graduate in the top 10% of her class and wants to at least take some classes outside of art and to have interactions that are a bit more academic. All this by way of asking for an opinion or even just more questions to ask. Thanks!