If your kid’s dream school was Brown-RISD what were their safeties and matches?

[Anonymous]

Syracuse

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe double major at Michigan? Also second Carnegie Mellon.

+1

[Anonymous]

If it’s your DD and you can, go visit Smith. Strong engineering program. My DD was not interested until we visited but one there, it made her list.

[Anonymous]

Opalanderson wrote:There is another similar thread on here about this. Just as a tip from first hand experience, it wasn’t worth it to send my first born to CMU for the BXA program, and looking back we would have been better off at Penn or just about anywhere else. He found that the degree had little value post-graduation and that the art concentration was not sufficient. Like the poster said above- better to get an engineering degree (Penn, MIT, etc) and just do art as a hobby. Most art is made with AI now anyway!

Not that people actually want to look at.

[Anonymous]

Look into the University of Rochester.

[Anonymous]

Opalanderson wrote:There is another similar thread on here about this. Just as a tip from first hand experience, it wasn’t worth it to send my first born to CMU for the BXA program, and looking back we would have been better off at Penn or just about anywhere else. He found that the degree had little value post-graduation and that the art concentration was not sufficient. Like the poster said above- better to get an engineering degree (Penn, MIT, etc) and just do art as a hobby. Most art is made with AI now anyway!

Most coding and engineering design can also be done by AI.
That's why, in the age of AI, interdisciplinary approach is great way to go especially if you have talent in multiple areas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania offers both.

I suspect that's a reach too, but we'll investigate. Do you know if they allow double degrees in two different schools?

He cares more about the art than the engineering, in terms of prestige, so he's thinking of VCU and Temple as possible matches/safeties. I'm not sure that anything that requires a portfolio is a safety.

-- OP

For the record, VCUArts absolutely requires a portfolio.