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The application process is the same as any art school. Portfolio. Essay. Decent Grades. Desire to go there. The earlier you turn your portfolio in the more scholarship you are likely to get I think. Include life drawing/observational drawing as well as a concentrated area in which you study.
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Take risks-push the limits of what you think art is, dedicate yourself to your work. Make lots of work, projects that show commitment and conviction-it doesn't have to be the best art the world has ever seen, you just have to put the time into it. They can tell by looking at it that you care.
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New administration = easy to get in if you have the $$.
Fine Arts - Painting/Sculpture/Photography/etc
acceptance rate in in the 80 percentile range. if you have a checkbook then you are basically in.
Fine Arts - Painting/Sculpture/Photography/etc
I had to raise my GPA because I was somebody who decided that I was never going back to school.
-I returned to school ten years later... (at a JUCO to raise my GPA of .80 proof.) I attended classes at a NEW junior college and maintained a GPA of 4.0 for a year(36 credit hours.) This gave me time to brush up on my chops and re-learn how to draw. It also gave me time to build my art portfolio. I was recruited to KCAI. (Chicago was my goal.) I got into KCAI but I had to work at it.
If you can go through the foundations program, you should definitely go. If you have some dead weight or are not sure of yourself, try the JUCO approach. (At least if you screw JUCO up it only cost you a few hundred dollars.)
If you can see the campus and take a tour, this will give you a nice idea of what you are getting ready to step into.
I recommend seeing the world and maybe working a few odd jobs before attending classes. Maybe wait until you are in your mid twenties to start classes. -I don't think I could have tackled classes at KCAI right out of high school. KCAI is probably one of the most challenging experiences you may ever encounter. (I am a bone fide combat veteran who attended classes at the age of 30.)
Good Luck and give it your best shot!
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Well i got in because i was a good illustrator, and i worked hard. i would tell people trying to get into the school is to push your ideas not your techniques. they will be teaching you
techniques your first year.
Other
I spent my whole senior year preparing a portfolio. I would recomend that you start earlier.
Art & Design Department
Submit slides, don't bother to go through a lot of effort.
Art & Design Department
I had taken courses in basic drawing and painting at a junior college and university. I learned basic life drawing skills. I took some basica liberal arts courses and got my gpa high. When I applied I asked to stay a freshman because KCAI has a very strong first year program. Most students would really benefit by doing life-drawing or shooting a lot of photography (if your are interested in 3-d maybe take some ceramics/sculpture courses at com. college) These are the base "prime" of every other discipline. Make your photo or drawings, or sculptures both technically sophisticated and have an overriding idea that is provocative, politics, sexuality, identity, economics, something that people like to think about and make work about. The idea is the linchpin it can tell peope what kind of mind you have. KCAI is good about putting like minded people together so you get a weird de ja vu sense of community.
Good luck!
Art & Design Department
Honestly, it's really easy to get in now with the new (stupid) administration. If you have money, you get in no matter what really. Those students never make it past the first year though, because it's so difficult. The way I look at it, the students that pay full price, are paying for my scholarship essentially, they compensate the school for as generous as they are with scholarships.
Getting in is the really easy part, getting a scholarship though is the most important and slightly difficult part. Getting up to 10,000 is pretty easy with an average high school portfolio, but to get upwards of that you need something outstanding, either the work itself or the way it's presented. Be anal about small details, and remember that presentation is half the battle. ( it doesn't matter how good the meat loaf tastes, if it looks like stool sample). Apply early for the competitive scholarships, and if you're serious about art and talented, you'll get whatever amount of money you need to attend. There's no limits on the number of scholarships they give out, and they are usually as liberal as they want to, given the amount of students they accept knowing full well that they'll drop out because they're not good enough, but will charge them the full tuition.
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