Product Description

The most comprehenisve guide available for colelge art programs in the U.S. and Canada. Ideal for students intersted in fine arts, design, media arts, and many other disciplines. Updated, comprehensive descriptions of programs. Advice from current art majors, college officials and professors, and industry professionals. Listings of scholarships and summer programs that help students develop their talent and prepare for a portfolio.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #594826 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 330 pages

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The perfect resource for finding the right professional degree progam in art.

Customer Reviews

Visual Arts Guidance for College-Bound Students
The guide does a good job of explaining criteria
which differentiate candidates for admission.
For instance, if you want to be successful in getting
into a school- this guide can be pivotal.

Things to do are:
o write an outstanding personal essay
o get teacher recommendations which reflect your major
area of study
o the portfolio of your previous work is critical
o request an interview because it could provide an
important opportunity to close communications gaps

The author also advises to attend Visual Arts College Fairs.
At these happenings, students can come into contact with
the people who have the admissions authority. In addition,
the fairs are an opportunity to talk to teachers and
students in the institutions pertinent to your application.

Lacking - huge disappointment
I would have liked to have known what the acceptance rates are, and where the mid 50%ile range of SAT scores lie (of those schools that require them), and how much weight is given to essay/scores/portfolio/gpa. This guide gives you no way of determining how selective a school is, or even how many applications they receive. It also gives precious little (even incomplete) information on financial aid. Collegeboard.com does a much better job of telling what the ration is of loans/jobs to scholarships and how many need based and merit awards are made and how much those packages average.

I was really trying to get a guide that puts all of the information I have to search all over the net for in a handy place. This book fails to deliver - back to collegeboard.com and princetonreview.com for now.

I give it 2 stars only because it does give nice descriptions of some schools (not all) above and beyond the basic statistics. They really need to take a lesson from Princeton Review's Guide to 361 Colleges. This could be a much better guide, and it is REALLY needed.