Perhaps check out Pratt in NYC? There are a few art and design schools in NYC, but Pratt is in Brooklyn and has a real campus feel, some sports, actual liberal arts classes, etc. Programs in many different design related fields that might give your students more of an idea of design related more "practical" fields. They give good merit too. Not super prestigious like RISD, but considered both a very strong art and design school and "a real college" for folks who know.

Several of my high school friends went to art schools.

They can be very competitive in their own way. There are also a lot of pretentious snobs.

The career focused ones can really set up students well to enter their desired career field; they are often very competitive.

Plan on getting am MFA and be a professor
Or work in industry from USC
Those are 2 of the more career minded options. Of neither appeal, what's the end goal? Open your own gallery? Stay a magazine? Are you rich?

for schools like SCAD and RISD that dont have standard liberal arts classes, they can have more of a career focus in general. SCAD especially. They want kids to get jobs. Just make sure you're happy with those jobs because it may be grade school art teacher.

SCAD is an urban campus with its buildings scattered throughout Savannah’s historic district. Beautiful city and good art scene with galleries, the Savannah film festival, small museums, etc.
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Some programs, like VCU, will require the standard core liberal arts courses taken. Others, like SCAD, are much less academic and more just art. You have to ask what kind of education do you want to pay for. And what if Larla doesn’t find art-related work after graduation? Are they going to wish they had a standard four year bachelor degree?

I can’t speak much to what art school is like, because I haven’t had a kid go, but I work in education and certainly have had colleagues who went from BFA programs to either elementary or art teacher positions to school administrator jobs.

Im interested too specifically in what happens if art doesn't work out as a profession which it doesn't for most - meaning can these serve as acceptable universities for other white collar jobs? (Not a snarky question)

OP here - Im interested in hearing what its like to go to college at art schools, in terms of the overall experience. I should have clarified that.

Savannah college of design SCAD

My kid (a high school sophomore) has similar interests, so I'll be following this thread.

VCU

Anonymous wrote:uSC as in LA?

Yeah sorry, meant all caps.

Any art school really. We are just starting this process.

uSC as in LA?

DC is interested. Any feedback on what this is like as a college experience?

MICA?
RISD?
UsC?