Oh, and apologies if I sound ungrateful. I'm super excited about Cooper Union, I had been wanting to go there for art since I was barely in elementary school but only in the past year or two have I shifted my focus towards architecture. I suspect I'll be busy enough to not long for the Ivy liberal-arts path too much.

Bookmarked for 2015. I'm talking about all those hopeful souls looking for their B.Arch, B.S., or B.A.– and I know there are at least a couple here. I like the format of that second thread though. Me: 18/M, 6' 0" 155lbs, blonde/blue, high school diploma and A.S. in Graphic Design/Tunxis Community College, etc... ;)

A/S/L!!11!

ismith, I saw you on facebook. Congratulations on your Cooper acceptance!
I got in at Syracuse and Pratt, and will be attending the latter.

Cooper Union has one of the lowest acceptance rates, and is a great school. I'm not sure, but I do believe the programs are also full scholarship, but I could be wrong. It might just be at the graduate level.
But if they are, then I would jump on Cooper Union immediately. Having a full ride to a school, espeically a school like that one, AND being in NYC where costs can go radically out of control seems like a no brainer.

F*ck Columbia.

Hey ismith, congrats on getting acceptd to Cooper Union, thats pretty impressive. Im visited NYC last summer with family (Im from the Great White Canadian North), most amazing city I have ever witnessed; words cannot express my longing to live/work there.

Speaking of Canucks, anyone else applying to undergrad programs here? Im waiting for word from Dalhousie, should know in a month or so. Im currently at U of Waterloo for double-major in Urban Design (Planning) and Fine Arts (Studio), I was rejected 2 years ago from Carleton.

Ben C --- what do you think of the reputation of the UBC out in Vancouver? How does it fare nationally and internationally.

Congrats Ismith on CUnion

@BenC: Apparently my uncle's girlfriend teaches architectural history at Waterloo– I looked into it briefly but didn't bother to apply since I really wanted to be in NYC. How is the program? One of the things I had my eye on at GATech and Columbia was the option to double major– I imagine doing fine arts with urban planning helps balance your head a bit when the courseload builds up.

@ampexian: Well congrats! From everything I've seen and heard both programs are quite good, though I've learned a little more about Pratt (since applying of course and from my own "stealthy walkabout" campus tours) than Syracuse. Hopefully it'll be a good five years for us both, enjoy the little extra breathing space in Brooklyn. B.Arch 2015 here we come!

@jake: Tuition is completely free, yes. There is a student and lab fee however which I think totals somewhere around $1k, and you have to get your own housing or apply to live in the student residence hall. I just sent in my application for residency, the room was priced at $10k for the 9 month school term which is a fair price to pay to be right on campus and get to know all the other incoming freshman. By the end of my first or second semester I'll probably find a few other people who want to pitch in for a larger space somewhere further from campus and not under the rules of the residency hall.

And thank you all very much for the congratulations! I'm just a few days and a standard postal delivery period away from being a bonafide student there!

Hey Azcue,

From what I hear UBC has an excellent Arch school, independently rated #2 in Canada. (http://www.archsoc.com/kcas/researchschool5.html) Its the same thing as Dalhousie's B.EDS where you apply after 2 years in some other undergrad to begin studies in your 3rd year. I would have applied to it but they had different pre-req's in physics that I didnt meet, whereas Dalhousie had more pre-reqs but I had taken all of them already.

Currently waiting on decisions from UManitoba, UBC, and Dalhousie all for BEDS programs. However, decisions wont be for at least a month because all 3 require final transcripts. Hoping for Dalhousie. UBC is a long-shot and UManitoba is a whole extra year of schooling.

I'm applying with 2 years of university courses, a mixed bag of arts and sciences. I'm curious as to what backgrounds everyone else has/ what experience you've had with Canadian schools.