Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc)
Pratt Institute
University of Southern California (USC)
Tulane University
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Temple University
University of Oregon
Cranbrook Academy of Art
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
Kansas State University
admission to grad schools
hi...
I am in my final yr of graduation...completing my b.arch and i intend to apply to grad schools in US for the coming fall. i have good sketching and visualisation skills and moderate software skills...but have only 1140 in GRE.
I am currently interning under a famous architect (and m getting to wrk with him personally)...so i shud manage a good reco frm him other than my school faculty...he also happens to be a passout of upenn himself and has taught there for quite a long time and has wrked world over.my GPA is easily over 3 as per US standards...m frm india though so we calculate our GPA out of 10 and mine has been over an 8.2 on avg...
I will be applying to upenn, uiuc, cal berkely for sure...
all advise on what a good portfolio shud have and wht my chances for admission can be...and how I shud direct myself at this point of time...(I will probably give GRE again!) are welcome
:)
check out the Commiserate threads. those have a bunch of portfolio examples and advice and banter.
thanks a lot! :)
although it is not a bad idea to retake the gre, 1140 is not a bad score especially with a good gpa.
I second msmit106's point. I also received an 1140 on the gre and had no problems getting admitted to top grad schools with a 3.23 gpa.
GRE and GPA are generally considered less important than the portfolio, statement of intent, and recommendations. By far the most important is your portfolio. The ivies (Penn) I would think are more concerned with undergraduate grades and GRE, but if you've got a famous recommended with ties to Penn it sounds like you've got some positive momentum...good luck
hi Roarkschach,
what all schools did you apply to?
Hi,
I applied to the University of Texas at Austin, SCI-Arc, University of Southern California, Pratt Institute, UCLA, and Parsons New School of Design.
I was accepted at Texas, SCI-Arc, USC, and Pratt. I got placed on wait-lists at Parsons and UCLA, from which I withdrew because I received admittance to my top 2 programs (Texas and SCI-Arc).
This fall I will begin graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Good luck, around this time last year I was planning school visits/researching programs, and re-tooling old projects for my portfolio. The 3 schools you mentioned all have strong reputations and if I could go back, I would have probably applied to Berkeley and Penn myself. Applying to 5 or 6 schools I think is a pretty good number so do your research and maybe add a few schools to your list.
1140 is not a bad GRE score at all!
hi med & msmit106
where are you guys studying? applying for grad school too?
raadhika, I've been out of school for three years and am working in the wonderful world of architecture since! :)
Back when I was applying I applied to 10 grad programs and got into half of them, got wait-listed from a few, and then declined by a few. My GRE scores were definitely lower than 1140!
Hope that helps!
whoa! :) what all schools did you apply to?
umm...and could you by any chance sho me some of ur wrk? m totally lost as to what to include in the portfolio..
Columbia, Penn, Virginia Tech, Virginia, Clemson, Florida, Ohio State, NC State, Pratt, SciArc, Maryland, and Miami-Ohio. That's where I applied.
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