Speaking of dogmatic, I heard from several GSD students that the GSD is fairly dogmatic. Heavy bias towards the tenets of Modernism (with a capital M), not too fond of experimental designs, curvilinear forms, or anything remotely historical. The school as a whole seems to have a thing against its own progeny Gehry, probably would've spurned Gaudi too. Students didn't seem to have a big problem with it, but to me that's a tad unsettling considering their large class size.

Anyone else hear similar things, or was I just blowing what I heard out of proportion?

Thanks, Switcheroo. That's helpful. I basically want to see the studio space and chat with whoever cares to chat with me. It wouldn't hurt to see the graduate dorms, although I probably wouldn't live in them anyway. Have you made your decision yet?

thats exactly what I am talking about. Although I probably wouldnt like to be in Leon Krier's class in Yale, I am glad his point of view is out there and listened to.

I am not sure I agree with the idea that the architecture world's best and brightest are solely in Princeton. That sounds liek a loaded bias statement. What about Montana, Washington, University of Texas Austin? All these schools have great thinkers (cameron, steve badanes, etc...), by the way i forget did steve badnes drop out of princeton? I know that jim adamson did.

Anyway, Princeton seems like the stuffiest of all the schools. their theory is pretty short and is ignoring the environmental and social aspects of design that are becoming mroe important.

In my opinion MIT and Yale.

+ accepted to columbia.

two down, two to go.

what exactly did columbia send? just a letter or a package?

formz-i'm on the verge of selecting gatech...i'd say 85% sure. i have no idea what the financial aid situation is. i've been selected by the feds for verification, which means i have to submit my 2005 tax info, which means i have to do my 2005 taxes right now.

congrats artcrimes!

got into columbia MarchI! this has assuaged earlier rejections, though i think i would have been really really despondent if i didn't get into columbia, too.

it was just a letter and an invitation to the open house. are these things even worth going to?

thanks switcheroo.

when is the open house for columbia? congrats btw!

congrats flickbee.....dont do uiuc for sure now.

Malquiades,

Princeton short one Theory? Ignoring social and environmental? What are you talking about? I didn't mean the only good thinkers are at Princeton, but their concentration of such thinkers is unsurpassed. You can argue between the top two or three Arch schools overall or for what you want to do, but as far as pure intellectual power and especially theory, saying Princeton is lacking is asinine.

Sounds like you have a bone to pick with the school or something. Did you not get in or something? You lost me forever when you compared UT Austin and Washington to Princeton. They are good schools and I would be proud to go there but give me a break.

hey! debate your respective schools elsewhere! this is for outright celebrations, congratulations, condolances and dejected moping only!

i'm still depressed about my Yale rejection... now i'm getting scared and starting to think... "what if no one accepts me..."

ACFA you are right, I am surprised by a lot of you that got Yale rejections. Your portfolios were really good, maybe it is for the better you will find a better fit elsewhere. Congratulations with those with good news.

But galford, you are wrong and a bit of a snob?!

just called columbia and found out they mail out letters as they're taking decisions, not at the end of the process... weird

anyone heard from cincy 4+ yet?

i agree with acfa. start a new thread to compare schools and leave this one for the rest of us still waiting nervously to commiserate.

one hour to go 'till i can go home and pounce on the mailbox...

i just inadvertently told my boss that i'd heard back from schools. i yawned and he asked if i'd been out late. i said "no, just not sleeping well lately." he said, "oh you must be nervous about schools. started to hear back yet?" so i told him about parsons and the yale reject, and he was like "oh you don't want to go there anyway." that made me smile. (no offense to anyone accepted - boss is a gsd alum.)

then he started to tell me how it was more intense when he applied to school in the late 60s b/c the choice was either graduate school or the draft for vietnam.

not to be cheesy but it did momentarily change my perspective on the gravity of the situation. ie, not too shabby.

my apologies on inciting the debate . . . i was just asking for help

8888 - great imagery. I don't know you, but I imagine someone, somewhere, pouncing on a mailbox. that might be me.

r/j Yale

Accepted: UT Austin & WashU

r/j Yale

Accepted: UT Austin & WashU

bb8, when/how did you hear from UT? thanks!

i've been feeling more like the poor FBI bomb squad guy that gets to defuse the bomb when i open my mailbox.

anyone hear back from upenn or harvard for the m.arch I?

anyone hear back from upenn or harvard for the m.arch I?

sal: snail mail...post marked march 8

first professional degree

i should just relax, but bb8, if you check this thread again, let me know what part of the country you're in. i'm hoping it takes longer for the pony express to get up to Boston.

salparadi, I live/ work in Cambridge and applied to UT-Austin too, I'll let you know if I get anything today...

Freudian slipsy...funny.

ones11 - no need to aplogize...the little disagreements are bound to happen in this crowd...the add color to the whole exchange.

Congrats to all accepted, condolances to the rest...I'm feeling rather uniformed as well today, and look forward to being in your collective shoes this time next year.

c'est la vie

same goes for anyone in the pacNW... per favore

same goes for anyone in the pacNW... per favore

I'm now enlisting my brother to check my mail - I need a life.

accepted by princeton last week via email.
applied only to princeton
i have visited the school and i think it's the best deal around.
GSD = GOD

now that is confidence, you get extra points for the extra guts.

iamhappy for you too, congratualtions!!!

wonder how long it'll take for UT to get their stuff up to virginia.... They're the last one I'm waiting on and I'm getting a little antsy

ok, i'm breaking down. you guys are antsy? try waiting for the mail down here in south america. actually, a courier in miami that forwards the mail to south america, since the mail system in my country will automatically steal any thick packages that might contain something remotely valuale.

whew.

sorry about that. just had to get it over with.

aml - you definitely have us beat

is yale done with their decision process?

i stand very corrected

i stand very corrected

: (

and princeton: waiting list. so still waiting.

ph.d. by the way. probably the grandma in this crowd.

Has anybody else been waitlisted for Yale's M.Arch I ?

If so, have you contacted them?

I rammed my car through the apartment security gate, blew up the mail truck with a bazooka, machine-gunned the management office, tear-gassed a nearby pack of chihuahuas, blasted open my mailbox with an explosive charge, tore open the letter with my teeth and turned to the camera and said:

"Looks like you've got YALE!"

(rejected)

is it possible to get an acceptance from yale through just mail notification?
west coast - I still havent recieved anything.

mnesikles-i live in new york and i got the harvard package on monday.

Enough of Princeton and Yale......
What do you guys think about between yale and Harvard?!
I just can't make my decision.

Superglue - I received my (red stamp) REJECT letter from Yale yesterday, and I'm in Seattle. I'm eagerly awaiting news on Penn, UT Austin and SCIArc... hope my fate is better than the last two...

superglue-

in LA, got the yale reject yesterday.

did anyone else have a weird addendum to the signature? something that looks like "/die" in cursive followed the signature on mine.

ACFA- probably says dean?!?!

I got the package from Yale today, nothing from anywhere else. The letter I got has a nice paper on the front and the second page is a photcopy with Stern's signature. I dont know why I thought that was odd, but I did.

Columbia is killing me, is not cool to send them out in waves.

applied to both MIT and Harvard - MArch I

haven't heard anything yet -

anyway- i'm looking forward to finding out so I can decide how much longer I'm at this office... don't get in - maybe look for new job in April... get in, quit in July - travel in August...

btw - this is the second time I've applied to grad programs - applied to Penn's urban planning program 3 years ago, and was waitlisted... I'm glad I didn't get in, though, because i'd rather be designing buildings.

-to

got a voicemail from toshiko! she didn't say what it was regarding, just to call her back, but unless she's feeling exceptionally cruel, i think i've got good news coming!

i applied march 1, no previous experience - did disco last summer.

jauln-

congrats! (pre-emptively). i'm sure toshiko didn't take the time to call you to say you were rejected. that'd be incredibly cruel.

got the acceptance letter from columbia today (!!)
would rather go to the gsd, though. if they don't get ahold of me tomorrow...