SCAD & UArts - GPA/SAT Requirements?

[Kismet]

Oh, could someone please help me out? What are SCAD' and UArts's minimum GPA and SAT score requirements? I don't see it listed anywhere on their site, and I don't want to go all the way to the library and look in the periodicals if I don't have to. I know they may not have a particular SAT score prerequisite (since the SAT doesn't have anything to do with art), but I know they have to have a bottom line as far as your GPA.

Thanks in advance.

[Pyroclasm00]

Im pretty sure most schools have a bottom line of a 2.0 gpa, most of the ones I've been looking at anyway. Not sure about SATs though. Have you checked collegeboard.com? Collegeboard, along with other college database sites generally have information like that displayed in an easily accessible manner.

[Kismet]

Oh, after reading what you said, I went there immediately and found out what I needed to know. Thank you so much! ^_^

[Senira]

If you have any AP credit, SCAD accepts pretty much all of it. Which is pretty nice, considering that you'd otherwise have to spend 60% of your time there on liberal arts classes.

(P.S. Scad is expensive. VERY expensive. Take it from someone who just graduated from there and will probably be poor until the day she dies-- unless you're coming in with a lot of scholarships or your relatives are footing the bill, an art school education is NOT worth that amount of debt.)

[Sulk-Sal]

Uarts is also very expensive, but they can be pretty generous with money, especially if your poor like I am. Just keep poking them for more.

As for not being worth it, I donno. It's true some or most of the teachers were only feeding their egos by accepting the position of "teacher", but you do get some quality ones too. I believe the biggest thing an art school will do for you is allow you to make contacts and allow you to become better by forcing you to draw all the time as well as giving you peers and professionals to crit you.

[Kismet]

If you have any AP credit, SCAD accepts pretty much all of it. Which is pretty nice, considering that you'd otherwise have to spend 60% of your time there on liberal arts classes.

(P.S. Scad is expensive. VERY expensive. Take it from someone who just graduated from there and will probably be poor until the day she dies-- unless you're coming in with a lot of scholarships or your relatives are footing the bill, an art school education is NOT worth that amount of debt.)

Psh, I WISH I had AP credit. =(

And strangely enough, SCAD is actually the cheapest school on my list (if I don't count my one of my two safety schools, that is). If I went to SCAD, I think I'd attend with their "semi-full time" option. I know UArts is super pricey, but I'm willing to deal with it if I can get in. I really like the school (and the location) a lot, even though I don't hear too much about it as far as Animation is concerned.

[Dustwind]

If you do Uarts, get Megan Berkhieser and Paul King. I went to Uarts for 2 years before I transfered to Ringling for a more concept art friendly/employers-coming-to-me-rather-than-vice-versa environment. The cost of both colleges is about the same, though I was able to land a 12k (about half at the time) scholarship with my meager talent so you may be able to do well. Just to warn you though, if you're looking for concept art it can be pretty sparse and the school isnt going to help you get into contact with companies much, chances are you're on your own if you want to learn 3d as well.

[Sulk-Sal]

Megan and Paul? That's the design illustration tract if I remember correctly. Didn't have Megan but she seems super nice, and Paul can be ok, although I didn't see his work the two years I had him, except for little postcards the final class. I heard Ralph Giguere is good and that he has a genuine love of art and teaching.

However, Dustwind is right about your chances with conceptart. I graduated two years ago, so maybe things have changed, but they mainly focused on the traditional routes of CD covers, book covers, children and magazine illustration, band posters...The final semester you could do what you wanted for the Ely, so I got away with doing Xbox 360 game covers, but another guy they strongly discouraged from doing Magic cards because he was "better then that". Any time I mentioned concept art or 3d, Biggs would squash it pretty quickly. But he isn't there anymore.

Thankfully, you have any of the other majors classes open to you, including computer animation, the character concept class (which isn't offered every semester, so be quick to grab it if you see it) and the game design minor offered though the multimedia department. Some of those in the minor get counted as electives or liberal arts, so that's a big plus if you want to take less liberal arts and more electives.