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| Major: Design Arts - Industrial Design/Graphic Design/etc (This Major's Salary over time) | | Gender: Female | This student rated most things higher than other students did. | Intelligence:
Quite Bright | | ACT: | | SAT: 1190 | | Lowest Rating
Campus Aesthetics/Beauty B | Describes the student body mostly as:
Friendly, ApproachableDescribes the faculty mostly as:
Friendly, Helpful, Arrogant | Highest Rating
Educational Quality A | How this student rated the school:
| Educational Quality | A | Faculty Accessibility | A- | | Useful Schoolwork | A | Excess Competition | A | | Academic Success | A | Creativity/Innovation | A | | Individual Value | A | University Resource Use | A | | Campus Aesthetics/Beauty | B | Friendliness | A- | | Campus Maintenance | B+ | Social Life | A | | Surrounding City | A | Extra Curriculars | B+ | | Safety | A |
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I
understand everyone is entitled to their own opinion and you
asked us not to reply to others reviews, so I
wont single any reviews out but I'm writing this for
people that are honestly basing their school decisions on these
reviews. It is my opinion that the negative reviews are
not fair at all to this school and its teachers
and I was really disappointed to read them. I found
this link accidentally when I stumbled upon a revelation at
work today while designing in Illustrator. I realized I have
been practicing techniques I learned in Frank Young's Graphic Design
Class in 2002-3...well its 2011 and I didnt realize it
until today that one of the things he taught us
that was “a fun exercise” I seriously use almost everyday
at work. And I was looking him up to tell
him and I got this link with these reviews and
I wanted to scream reading the bad reviews. Perhaps some
people took this school in completely the wrong way. Classes
like Originality and Visual Literacy were GREAT! Your project was
what YOU wanted but yet helping YOU figure it out
on YOUR OWN. It was ALL about your own creativity!
And finding what your own creativity really is and how
to utilize it in your field. Its much more than
what you came in with no matter how creative you
think you are it can always go further. The unconventional
methods WERE GREAT! Who wants to learn something different doing
the same thing? This school did not AT ALL ask
you to follow their ideas and not your own -
everything was left up to you while teaching you and
if you're all about doing what the teacher wants to
get an A, well you dont get graded in business
at work in As and Bs, I understand some teachers
are harder or different than others, and you will get
that at any school you go to. Design how you
want while listening to them and learning in the process.
Its not about the grade. Deal with it. If you
wanted the A and didnt explore something you wanted in
fear of it not being correct, then you lost something,
but it was your choice. I took the C if
I got one (rarely) and stood by my work and
love my career. Yeah you get frustrated but every good
and bad experience, grade, and teacher I had at this
school prepared me for the real world of creativity. Trust
me your boss and your clients aren't going to LOVE
every single project you do. I did like 300 projects
in 2010-11 at my current job(large and small - in
my GD field) - you cant get 300 A's, nobody
thinks the same as you or agrees with you 300
times. But, going back to SVA, mostly if you were
there and on time and did the work you got
As and Bs and it was great work to work
on, great teachers and great classes. Yeah it was expensive....thats
what loans are for. And what are we going to
do with money in the next life anyways, its all
about our experiences now. I live every moment to the
fullest and they encourage you to do so. The course
work is as challenging and as helpful as you make
it. Period. I advise you take the time to make
every project as best you can and you will have
a beautiful portfolio with nothing to regret. My only regrets
were the projects I did not have time to make
as good as I could've or when I chose to
use my time differently and not put it into that
project. But those are MY regrets, nothing against the school
and its teachers. I sincerely hope this helps people looking
into this school and the teachers reading it that I
loved my time at SVA and I have been in
the field ever since and still explore new things....just got
an airbrush & compressor and cant wait to figure out
how to use it!
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