Applications continue to rise
The School of Art received a record 1,215
applications this year for admission in September 2007, reflecting a 15-percent
jump in applications from last year. All four departments at the school -- graphic
design, painting and printmaking, photography, and sculpture -- saw
increased applications.
In a rigorous two-tiered process that will result in
a class of about 60 students, the original pool of applicants is whittled down
to about 175 candidates, who are then asked to interview on campus and present
their portfolios to faculty and students. Final acceptance letters are mailed
in late March. The school boasts a low acceptance rate (approximately 5
percent), and its yield (the percentage of those accepted who matriculate) has
remained quite high -- between 89 percent and 100 percent (depending on the
department) over the last two years.
A welcoming website
The newly revamped School of Art website,
yale.edu/art, which was originally launched in October 2005, is a wiki site, which allows art school
graduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni to edit the site's contents and
add new content. Within the next few months, alumni will be invited to
contribute to a page on which they can link their sites and personal or
professional information. It is anticipated that by summer the website will
become one of the richest resources for both alumni information and images of
their work.
Spring exhibitions
The semester of MFA thesis exhibitions has begun;
please consult the school website for a schedule and images of current work in
the shows in Green Hall. The ten graduating sculptors will open the thesis
shows and take up the first two months of the gallery with installations,
video, and other constructions.
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