Which art school should I pick?

cherrycrush021
Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:48:04 +0000

Brown is the draw.
That is the one huge thing about Pratt that I wish I could change: I wish Pratt had a partnership with some liberal arts school similar to RISD’s and SMFA’s. I don’t doubt that Pratt’s gen eds are adequate, but Pratt lacks a decent language program. While I love art, there are other subjects I am interested in possibly pursuing, namely Spanish and Latin American studies, or Creative Writing. Pratt does have Creative Writing, which is great, but in terms of Spanish there’s only a Conversational Spanish class. As a student who took AP Spanish during junior year of high school… that class is not really at my level. Given I am in no way completely fluent, but one day I really hope to be close to it. I applied to the Brown/RISD Dual Degree Program, despite the incredible odds. I don’t expect acceptance but hey, might as well try. Worst case, I can always just take classes at Brown if I get accepted to RISD.

I’m not positive yet about what I’m going to do, but I figure I will see where I get in and figure it out from there. My post wasn’t meant to voice my confusion, just to show my experience with the two schools in hopes of helping someone else, although given I suppose it is a bit biased. All in all I personally think the actual art education at either school is comparable. I find it interesting that people rarely seem to compare RISD and Pratt (at least in my experience… RISD always seems to be compared to MICA or Yale).