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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Art & Design Department  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Super Brilliant I attended the school for a year, because I heard about how "prestigious" it was. I got there and found the exact opposite to be true. They are an utter mess! They have no money and use every mechnism possible to try to extract more cash from the students. They send you running in circles over the most basic questions- no one gives a straight answer. The teachers are extremely lazy and unprofessional. It seems that many of them develop unhealthy sexual feelings toward the students. They have no money and are very lacking in art equipment. The list of the negative aspects of the school could fill a novel. Oh, they bounced my refund check. There is a tendency of students killing themselves or attempting suicide on campus. If you question the validity of the art theory they are trying to promote, the faculty will try to destroy you. Campus Aesthetics: B+, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Sep 30 2007 1st Year Female -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=41435&uid=186'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Fine Arts - Painting/Sculpture/Photography/etc  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Horrible administrative team and extremely overpriced. They mislead everyone explaining to them that they are "artists" by virtue of being accepted. Your dollars are more important to them than your valid complaints about access, policy and the amount of time wasted in classrooms. The review process is extremely flawed--conducted by random teachers who dont know your work. The year I was there there was some controversy as people failed there reviews after receiving high marks in all their classes. There is no appeal process nor an explanation of what they are looking for--and personal motives play into the process heavily. Basically it's illegal as you should be provided with a contract if you're paying all that money. Some great teachers in the new genres dept. A certain female film teacher is truly evil and has screwed over many a good teacher's livelihoods and students in her relentless pursuit of micromanaging to make up for her failed career as an artist. Do not take her class--especially if you are female--her only objective is to destroy you and make herself feel better. Preparedness: B, Reputation: D Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Sep 15 2007 Alumna Female -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=41231&uid=186'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Art & Design Department  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I've been at SFAI for the better part of two semesters, and i could not be more displeased with my experience. SFAI's only concern is pulling themselves out of debt, and therefore they will take anyone who will cough up tuition (tuition-high quality of education-very, very low.) The end result is a student body whose intelligence level is well below average, and whose truly creative output is nearly non existent. If one does not wish simply to sit around, smoke pot, drink, lick faculty ass, and socialize with either the hyper art theory-obsessed self-absorbed condescending to-be art critics, or the Neanderthal-like skateboard riding urchins who comprise the other half of the student body, stay well away and get a decent education elsewhere. I'm transferring next year, and I've gotten into both CalArts and CCA, so this isn't the whining of a bitter untalented artist, merely the complaining of someone who loves art and wants to get the best education he can. Do yourself a favor and go somewhere else. Surrounding City: A+, Scholastic Success: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 18 2007 1st Year Female -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=36390&uid=186'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Art & Design Department  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright Basically SFAI has been saying, "Baby I can change, just give me one more chance," for the 15 years since I was there. I still have shows, I still work on art, but I have never had anyone say that what I did was anything other than an excercise in self-congratulation (self-immolation?). To be well edjucated and not acknowledged is bad enough, but... The job resources are non-existent, the administration incompetent (a new plan emerges every year or so on what will fix the school), and they refuse to higher full time faculty, or organize anything alumn oriented (jobs, even info, anything in fact)... and so morale is understandable about as bad as it can be. And enrollment continues to drop, while the price of tuition rises. I have known people who have taught there, and although they appreciate the students being bright (when they aren't looking down on them for not responding to traditional techniques and since all the administration does is farm in labor for a year or two, no professor actually gets to know what students in an alternative enviornment need, and no one checks in on the hired part time no tenure professors to make sure they are in fact competent to teach in an alternative environment - and btw some aren't). Every single person I know has failed to make money as an artist, and we are all very cynical, despite the fact that many of us have had prestigious shows and recieve international invitations to biennials or festivals of art or otherwise. Compound this with the fact that SFAI is in bed with nearly every important gallery and museum in the U.S. and it gets even bleaker when you consider how little they do for those they are suppose to be there for. Starting Job: internet sales person, Preparedness: F, Reputation: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) May 30 2006 Alumnus Male -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=22569&uid=186'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save      Prev    Select Page:  1  2    Next

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