Yale for undergrad studio art?

momcinco
Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:37:28 +0000

We spent a lot of time and did a lot of legwork, both as a high financial need family and bc our elder son is a gifted artist but was also a math wiz. I say was because he has not pursued that much either! It’s okay, it jjust reinforces his decision to go the BA route rather than BFA. If anything he would have gone for a BA and BFA dual degree.

Programs he liked almost as much as Yale’s were Brown/RISD (actually of the other runners up that one was my favorite!) and WashU (his!) BU apparently has a dual degree and good programs but he visited and it just didn’t enthrall him. Of the LACs he liked Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Pomona, though he knew the studio art offerings would be thin compared to an art school’s. Swarthmore has an amazing faculty member, a painter whose work he loved. Amherst and Pomona have so many cross registration possibilities, he figured he could find more profs. Williams has such incredible art history, and the museum. He liked Skidmore’s art program and interviewed there. Did not like Wesleyan’s as much. Tufts and an art school do a dual degree but like Wesleyan’s it was too abstract for him – he loves representational work. If I remember correctly Cornell has a dual degree. We also went to visit Kenyon because they have a studio art scholarship. I think Occidental does cross reg with a fantastic art school but we looked into it and the commute would have been unmanageable without a car.