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| | Nov 18 2009 | 1st Year Female --
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Having experienced three majors here, Illustration, Painting and Graphic Design, I really wish I had gone to a different school. I can fairly say that about 1/3 of the teachers that I've had are terribly difficult to understand. Hardly any have degrees in teaching, they are hired due to their performance in the field. While I am glad that they have field experience, this does not translate at all to their teaching. The only teachers that demonstrate any teaching ability have been the foundations professors.
All of the major classes I have been in have followed this same structure: in ten weeks you have 3-5 (one class had 8) projects. This means you have three classes before a project is due and one critique day (two classes a week for 2.5 hours each). The three classes are normally "work days" in which the teacher goes around to the different students in the class. However, teachers rarely get around to the whole class or if they do, it is rushed. I do not feel that this is adequate teaching. Even in painting there is little to no discussion about modeling form or edge quality. Most is based on the conceptual idea behind your painting. While that is important, there is very little help for you to execute it. Keep in mind you have two weeks to produce a finished piece for each of your two studio classes (one piece a week).
This is the same way that I have felt in every major class that I have taken. For example, in Illustration we were frequently given posters to make that include hand done typography. Yet we were taught nothing of the basic principles of typography (layouts, kerning, etc), yet we were expected to do it anyway.
What is also frustrating is that there are no pluses or minuses in the grading. You are required to get an average of 3.0 in your major GPA to graduate and your GPA regulates your scholarship, it can be taken away at any point. The difference between an 80 and an 89.9 is huge. Most teachers do not round up, so even if you get an 89.7, you get a B. Teachers still believe that C's are average, and grade accordingly. There is no regulation in department of grading, it is entirely up to the teacher. I have gotten everything from rubrics on the grading breakdown, to a number on a post it note. | Friendliness: B, Education Quality: F | | | |
| | Oct 25 2009 | 3rd Year Male --
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| Quite Bright |
I would caution those looking into higher education at SCAD to look elsewhere. I attended SCAD for 2 years while securing my BFA in Graphic Design. The school has great facilities, the latest software and technology and several satellite campuses for study abroad. But be warned, all these things are just smoke and mirrors for extraordinarily high tuition and poor education.
I had previously attended a community college for my Associate's degree, so I feel I have something to measure my SCAD experience against. While at community college I felt challenged. Not only by the faculty, but also by my fellow students. My community college prepared me for my next steps, helping me research several schools to continue my education and helping other students secure jobs.
This is what I thought I would find at SCAD. But to the contrary, I found faculty that is discouraged from properly critiquing and grading students. More than once, I witnessed students cry their way to better grades and come up with some of the lamest excuses for deadline extensions. And it's not the faculty's fault, the school's motto is "the student is always right." This attitude creates a lax environment for friendly competition between classmates, and in turn prevents student's from pushing their creative boundaries.
I put in all 2 years at SCAD thinking college is what you put into it, but was I wrong. When it came time to graduate I was given little direction on what I should do after SCAD. Their job board is a joke, especially for a boy from the North (most of their employment opportunities are in GA and FL.) When I finally found a job, I wasn't prepared and basically had to learn simple things that were never explained at SCAD. And if this review sounds bitter...it should. I'm in student loan debt to the tune of $70,000. I thought by paying a premium for my education I would get a leg up, instead I still feel like I'm playing catch up with my contemporaries from less expensive colleges. | Starting Job: Junior Graphic Designer, Preparedness: F, Reputation: C | | |
| | May 17 2009 | Alumnus Male --
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This well marketed school has unique priorities, beginning with their army of recruiters that all seem to have a (unused) SCAD degree. There is such a disappointing disconnection between the disciplines for a school with such potential. If you like your tuition paying for pointless flat panel televisions scattered throughout their numerous building bragging about the school, a collection of over budgeted athletic teams that do not generate any money, an private art collection(that you may not even see) that can compete with anywhere in the US of A, and a 'president' that's annual salary allows her to order over a million items on any fast food dollar menu each year.
Personally, I have not had a positive experience, but I am not saying it is not possible, because with the amount of students enrolled the law of probably will come into play and the school will market that lucky individual well. My main gripes are: having a studio class with 25 students, no metal working tools in the architecture program, inexperience faculty (straight out of grad school, most likely graduating SCAD), rising price of tuition, extremely high acceptance rate (abundance of extremely low caliber students) , disorganized administration, etc.
SCAD is not completely corrupt because they do a lot for the community and there are a handful of excellent faculty and students, and they have a couple of outstanding exhibits and lectures each year, but unfortunately they have overdone themselves with letting the world know that already (so there is only disappointment to discover.) | Scholastic Success: A+, Individual Value: F | | | |
| | Sep 18 2008 | 2nd Year Male --
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