I'll third that, nothing from ASU and nothing from Clemson. Still waiting on six schools. Anyone apply to Virgina Tech?

yale rejection for me too. sigh.
i just hope its not indicative of other school's thoughts about me.
for the record, i'm on the east coast, it was for m.arch I with a ba undergrad in architecture.

o-oooh.... the gsd madness is about to begin....

if you want to hear smth funny, i was accepted to risd without applying :)). i applied last year, got in, didn't go, asked for and was denied a deferral. took my year off, applied to schools again, but no risd this time around. and then out of the blue, i get an email from their arch dept coordinator asking me to confirm my spot in the 2006 class. they're even giving me until april 15 to decide. now that's what i call a school with a heart. with a two-liner they got me off the street...

Ha -- I guess that's a congrats DMC! They probably took one look at my 4am-kinkos-bound portfolio and said, "uh-oh...we got anybody left from last year's pool?"...

...out of curiosity, why did you decide against applying to RISD this time around?

yale rejection! by mail...

strugs--

lol... i'm sure you'll be fine... RISD was actually my top choice last year. i did arch and art in college, and it seemed like the best place to do architecture without losing the art. soon after though, i heard that they mix their undergrad and grad programs, which is a little shady considering what i'll be paying. and then, i got into better schools, so i figured i should get my money's worth. still, RISD sends me a real good vibe, so i'm definitely gonna go to their open house... in college, everyone in the arch dept was like 'oh, and the talking heads all went there' :)

good night, and good luck.

A friend of mine was accepted to GSD today: MLA.

Does anyone know how many people they accept for Landscape?

Also, I contacted Geri from Admissions and MArch notifications are going out mid-march... so I would imagine any day now... :|

So........I heard from all the schools, i applied.
I have been admitted to Harvard, Yale, Columbia and rejected from Princeton.

I am not sure where I want to go yet.
Probably, I will make that decision after I visit all the schools for open-house.
Feel free to give me a piece of advice on where I should go.
Thank you!

gyuwuli- what program?

congrats, by the way=)

luclab83- sorry! i shoud have posted that info!!

Harvard, Princeton, Yale - March2
Columbia - MSAAD

Not being familiar with the program designations, that's for students with a 4 year degree in Architecture right?

GT+

no! actually for people who holds 5year degree

Ok, I'm not applying anywhere, I'm doing it next year, kudos to everyone here for their perseverance, but I'm wondering......has ANYONE gotten into Princeton yet? Was there one person that I missed? Do they only take robots or what?

Sorry, don't mean to throw a wrench into the machine, but that's kind of amazing.

Also I have sympathy knots in my stomach for you guys whenever I do check this thread. I'll go pray to the mail gods on your behalf now.

How does the GSD notify if people got accepted? phone or letter? (I'm waiting to see if I got in the MLA program too)

...after reading all the Yale letter stories, I knew it was gonna be there when I got home. I grabbed the mail in a big pile and threw it down on the coffee table. Sure enough, there was a thin lil' guy from New Haven. I squeezed it to feel for extra pages. Nope. I held onto it waiting for the right vibe. And then my shaky hands ripped it open. Nope. Argh. It stings. I didn't really expect to get in there, but I realllly wanted to.

Oh well, according to the letter there were more candidates than available spaces! Whoops. I don't feel so bad now that I know they accidentally didn't open enough spaces for the promising candidates. Gosh. I guess that just means better luck for those of you applying next year, because I'm sure they won't let that kind of mistake happen again.

congrats to the guys who got in.
8888- i remember seeing your portfolio, believe me it was very good. i wonder what the admissions office expect. i`m still waiting to hear from yale. got no hope though.

besancon - I was notified through mail (no phone call, no email)
They sent me an package with whole bunch of stuff

wonderK- since you asked... i was accepted to princeton... woo hoo! i can't hide the fact that i'm thrilled by this. but only thrilled to the extent that a robot can be.

Yale: the only ivy league that still accepts direct the progeny of Dubya. now tell me, why would you wnat to go to such a school.

Waitlisted at Yale...

Could be better.
Could be worse.

another question for future reference - are there stats on princeton's admissions anywhere? seems like it's so exclusive, anybody that doesn't have a >3.9 gpa + good gre + killer portfollio + recomendation from stan himself doesn't stand a chance.

so I'm curious...also would like to know if I should just save the admission fee in a couple years.

good luck everybody. I feel for ya. here:

Here's what's worse than getting rejections, not knowing whether you've received them or not because you won't be living at the address you wrote down on your application until April 1. It is killing my soul!!

Whoa, that's rough. I feel for ya. here:





...well, it helps me relax.

SuperHeavy=official yale reject

but it was nice paper with a signature in ink and everything, classy.

remedios, I missed that. Congrats! You should frame that letter. Also post your portfolio so next year's people know what to shoot for.

Also, ShesInParties, besides having a fun name, makes a damn good point.

got into yale, columbia, and princeton thus far, and was offered some money from princeton, but not as much as people have been talking about.

has anyone heard from Harvard?

i asked the magic 8 ball if i'd hear from somewhere today...

outlook good

hi ones11- was this for m.arch?

ones11, congrats.. was it an email notification from yale?

one11, if I send you a picture of me, can you bless it with your awesomeness?

yeah, for m arch 1 , and yes, an email notification/phone call from yale and an email/phone call from princeton. just a letter from columbia. what do you guys think about yale vs. princeton, pros and cons. I come from a non-arch background so I'm rather uniformed . . .

ones11... do you have your portfolio online anywhere? id be curious to see another non-arch background portfolio that was so successful

i don't have it online, but it included some independant design projects, professional design projects ( i spent a year after graduating from college working with a firm in nyc ) but mostly paintings and drawings. But, no photography.

ones11: princeton all the way. stan allen, sarah whiting, ron witte, sejima, ed eigen, front inc, dan wood, arup, etc. great stuff. very focused and clear direction for the school. new japan program with sejima. all great people. very happy and intellignet bunch. super sharp.

yeah, but it's in new jersey, and I hate the undergraduate school. Also, it's only 12 kids? What if you get stuck with some weird class? At least Yale's student body is quite large, correct? More ideas, more dialouge. Similary, from what i've seen thus far, it appears that Princeton leans towards a more theoretical, and less hands on approach to design, something I'm not sure I feel so comfortable with. But I agree, Yale does appear somewhat less focused, not quite as sharp . . . but as of right now, i guess i am leaning towards yale, although I do love Sejima . . . and the japan connection is an attractive one. Is Yale a Big mistake?

only on archinect would someone even jokingly compare a $400 bottle of scotch to a blow up doll...touche, guig...touche.

Ones: I think you'd be absolutely flipping nuts to choose yale over princeton. it's a combination of (myself) not being too impressed with the people I've met from yale (both students and professors) and the killer faculty of princeton.

if you're worried about size and location, go to columbia.

and those of you who got into princeton: spill it. gpa, major, gre, portfolio, everything.

I have to stop reading this thread. you guys are making me nervous and I didn't even apply this year.

ones11: did you apply to the GSD? any word?

gyuwuli: where do you live? i'm trying to discern if there is still hope for me....

in my humble opinion:

Yale, everyone I know from there seems to be a very good designer prepared both for the professional and academic world. Princeton is too small TOO much of a focus to the point that it seems dogmatic (in Yale you can study many ideas, some you may not even like). Friends of mine in the big leagues recommend Yale over Princeton any day. Current students from both schools care to comment?

i did apply to th GSD, and no, I haven't heard from them yet.

manamana: I don't necessarily disagree with your remarks. I just think that I might value having a larger design community at my fingertips. I am a painter as well, and Yale has an incredibly rich MFA program, one that I will be permitted to access. Princeton is, on paper, the right decision, but it's community is so small . . . exposing oneself to a larger, more dynamic design envisonment seems to be the most attractive and important aspect in my decision making process. I think it is impertative to interact with as many people and ideas as possible, from a number of varied disciplines.

In addition, I am from New York, and am slightly un-intrigued with Columbia, and feel that it places far too much weight on the computer aspect of design. Drawing is a very important part of the process . . . something i dont want to give up

anyways, I have to leave, but if people have more comments, i'd love to hear them,
and thanks for the responses so far

ones11, congratulations! when did you recieve the columbia letter? Sounds like a few people have heard from the MSAAD program but is this not the first of the March's? Could be a big couple of days...a friend of mine got into Columbia last year. Its just a thin letter so dont freak out!

ones11: i suspect that if you got into all those schools, princeton will be but the first school you might be involved with over the next several years. it is also shedding the silly-theory of the past several years into something much more real, imaginatively pragmatic, pratice-able. you'll never see any undergrads and either yale or princeton, you will be on a train to see anythign interesting anyway (new haven or new jersey, i wouldn't pick it for the setting)

Obviously, both schools are amazing. I don't see how Princeton could be described as dogmatic. The mode of study there is very focused, i.e. as rigorous as possible, but the scope of the intellectual experimentation does not seem at all confined to any one ideaology. The alums from Princeton don't seem to be at any loss successful practice, either. In my opinion, Yale does more indoctrination as well.

To me it comes down to this. You will learn the profession in the profession; we go to school, especially these schools, for the intellectual, theoretical benefit. That being said, I don't necessarily want a balance of both sides, I want to be with the world's best thinkers, which I think is at Princeton.

ShesInParties - ditto that

Congrats though to all of you with good news! ::happy dance::

Obviously, both schools are amazing. I don't see how Princeton could be described as dogmatic. The mode of study there is very focused, i.e. as rigorous as possible, but the scope of the intellectual experimentation does not seem at all confined to any one ideaology. The alums from Princeton don't seem to be at any loss successful practice, either. In my opinion, Yale does more indoctrination as well.

To me it comes down to this. You will learn the profession in the profession; we go to school, especially these schools, for the intellectual, theoretical benefit. That being said, I don't necessarily want a balance of both sides, I want to be with the world's best thinkers, which I think is at Princeton.

yale rejection yesterday. i also appreciated the courteousness of the letter and the ink signature.

still no word from asu...don't they start in may? aren't they cutting it a bit close for those of us who'd need to move across the country? it's making me less and less interested in their program.

i think i'm going to gatech (in may, grr...).

two headed boy: I still haven't heard from Parsons, if that makes you feel better. In my opinion all of their correspondences have been disorganized.

switcheroo: I'm heading down to see GA Tech tomorrow...Is there anything particularly interesting that you did while you were down there? Just looking for ideas. Did you arrange meetings with the Deans or anything?

two headed boy: I still haven't heard from Parsons, if that makes you feel better. In my opinion all of their correspondences have been disorganized.

I haven't heard anything from Columbia, which is making me nervous as well.

switcheroo: I'm heading down to see GA Tech tomorrow...Is there anything particularly interesting that you did while you were down there? Just looking for ideas. Did you arrange meetings with the Deans or anything?

Congrats to everyone!

two headed boy: I still haven't heard from Parsons, if that makes you feel better. In my opinion all of their correspondences have been disorganized.

I haven't heard anything from Columbia, which is making me nervous as well.

switcheroo: I'm heading down to see GA Tech tomorrow...Is there anything particularly interesting that you did while you were down there? Just looking for ideas. Did you arrange meetings with the Deans or anything?

formz-

i just talked to a few of the administrator people, got a tour of the building from ms. brown. it was all very informal. i ran into someone from undergrad there, which was a surprise. i got to talk to her for a while, but she was in the middle of class. the campus is really beautiful and is right downtown. i felt very comfortable there. it was difficult finding the arch office (and building for that matter...the cabbie didn't know where to go, so i just wandered campus a bit). the office is on the 2nd floor (i think), basically unmarked, under an exit sign in the corner.