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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So where am I now? I'm a student at MICA, one of the top art schools in the nation, on almost a full ride, and I just illustrated my first book this year. My peers are in schools like RISD, SCAD, Cornell, CalArts, SVA, Pratt, NYU Tisch School of the arts, Havard, Pointe University, and the list goes on. I just talk to one of my VAC peers who's going to Parsons, and she's a fashion intern living in NYC. One of my friends took theatre at Einstein, and he now on a Netflix show, another friend of mind was a dancer at Einstein, and she's working on opening her own dance studio around the community. The things Einstein students go on and do are amazing.[/quote]

PP, how common is it for a VAC grad to get "an almost full ride" at MICA? We have not found MICA to be very forthcoming about scholarship info. When we toured it, we got the sense that it's aiming to be more of a thinking person's art school; how are the academics, in your experience? And what are your plans after graduation?[/quote]

Not common, but not impossible. My biggest advice knows what you want. In 8th grade, I wanted to be a Storyboard Artist for an animation studio, and not once had I ever consider otherwise. VAC has great connections to the art schools so MICA and a few other big art schools came to us to check our portfolios, and MICA  liked me so much they gave me a card and really pushed me for a private interview with my mother. MICA really like the assignments VAC made us do, I recall him loving our "Scientific bug project". After that interview, I was in a "special pool" of students competing for big scholarships, and after I got my rewards package from all the schools I applied to, I wanted to see if I could squeeze more money out of MICA by saying "Hey RISD and SAIC (MICA competitors) offer me this much..." and so I thought of it as a business ,and like I said MICA really wanted me, so they gave me 2 more grants, now my mom doesn't have to worry about paying for my education. My Academics classes are mostly "discussion" base, but only because those are the type of classes I register for. I take classes like Lit of American South, Critical Theory, Modernism and After, Europe of the Dark ages, etc. If I wanted to, I always have the option to take a JHU class, because MICA does have a partnership with them. My plans after graduation are hopefully getting a Storyboard Artist internship, and moving down to CA, considering the fact that animation students are in high demand.[/quote]

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