Louis Katz on sat 16 oct 04
Finding the right grad school is a trick. There are many to choose from
and people have differing needs.
One question is will they accept you with the degree/experience that
you have? Will the acceptance be conditional etc.?
Does the school have the teacher/facilities/support that you need?
Ask former instructors, peers, clayart, at conferences, anywhere.
Apply to loads of schools.
Visit the ones that accept you. Ask hard questions. Ask teachers what
the weak point of their institutions and instruction is.
Ask the same question of graduate and undergraduate students.
Try to make sure that what is wrong does not push your buttons.
Try to make sure that what you need or think you need is availalble.
Remember that grad students are reluctant to discuss the negative
aspects of institutions they will graduate from. Id you don't ask
direct questions you will probably only get favorable responses.
Go to the best fit you can and if you don't think it is right after
giving the good college a try, go somewhere else.
Louis
Dennis Tobin on sat 16 oct 04
Louis,
I know some of the criteria we look at for grad students besides work,
experiences, and grade are have they had similar courses that we
require for our BFAers. Most of our grad students are awarded a
generous assistantship and most of them teach foundation and discipline
entry level courses. Our BFA is also very heavy on the drawing
component, we require all BFA studio majors to have 3 full years of
drawing. Grad students have to take graduate drawing as well. So we
prefer that all of our graduate candidates have a similar background(
either curricular or experiences) as our BFAers. Just because we prefer
that doesn't mean that we don't make exceptions.
Dennis Tobin
On Oct 16, 2004, at 2:51 PM, Louis Katz wrote:
> Finding the right grad school is a trick. There are many to choose from
> and people have differing needs.
> One question is will they accept you with the degree/experience that
> you have? Will the acceptance be conditional etc.?
> Does the school have the teacher/facilities/support that you need?
>
> Ask former instructors, peers, clayart, at conferences, anywhere.
> Apply to loads of schools.
> Visit the ones that accept you. Ask hard questions. Ask teachers what
> the weak point of their institutions and instruction is.
> Ask the same question of graduate and undergraduate students.
> Try to make sure that what is wrong does not push your buttons.
> Try to make sure that what you need or think you need is availalble.
> Remember that grad students are reluctant to discuss the negative
> aspects of institutions they will graduate from. Id you don't ask
> direct questions you will probably only get favorable responses.
> Go to the best fit you can and if you don't think it is right after
> giving the good college a try, go somewhere else.
>
> Louis
>
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