SAT Score for Art Colleges

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Anonymous wrote:Dear OP - this isn't what you asked, but I have seen several students go through RISD and SCAD and would strongly recommend that you try to interest her in a college or university that would give her the arts background she is interested in but also a B.A. or B.S. degree. She may find she can't find a job in the arts or changes her mind. Also, the drop out rate at art colleges is high. If you are in Virginia, look at JMU - it has a strong arts department, as does GMU

This is horrible advice. Look at Cooper Union or Parsons, great internship opportunities available through school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dear OP - this isn't what you asked, but I have seen several students go through RISD and SCAD and would strongly recommend that you try to interest her in a college or university that would give her the arts background she is interested in but also a B.A. or B.S. degree. She may find she can't find a job in the arts or changes her mind. Also, the drop out rate at art colleges is high. If you are in Virginia, look at JMU - it has a strong arts department, as does GMU

This is horrible advice. Look at Cooper Union or Parsons, great internship opportunities available through school.

Not PP, but it's very practical advice (advice I gave my own kid, a freshman trying out different subjects, and surprise, no longer pining for a studio art major). Headed into a recession, flexibility from a variety of skill sets will be useful. It doesn't mean my kid will never use what she's learned so far, and she still wants to take more art courses, but she's discovered there's a whole world of subjects out there that she never would have imagined that she likes. Writing, of all things. Even finds accounting kind of interesting. And on and on. There is no recession-proof major, but the limited nature of a single-field school is inherently more risky.