got my email at 10am today (so might make sense to be alphabetical.) i only applied there to see if i could get in, expecting a rejection and got an offer. hah! going to LCA instead
I got offers from LCA and CSM too and I have no idea what to choose!!! St Martins has the better reputation but the course at Leeds looks amazing, what made you choose LCA?
"The Foundation admission department is sending out emails on the 26, 27 & 28 March to UK applicants informing them on the status of their applications. EU applicants will be informed from next week."
I GOT IN TOO literally so happy!!!! i've got offers from leeds brookes and uca canterbury but cannot turn down csm. just can't! london is the place for me
"The Foundation admission department is sending out emails on the 26, 27 & 28 March to UK applicants informing them on the status of their applications. EU applicants will be informed from next week."
WAITING, WAITING, WAITING. One more week.
Thanx Shadowplay, though i still don't now if it makes me better or not
"The Foundation admission department is sending out emails on the 26, 27 & 28 March to UK applicants informing them on the status of their applications. EU applicants will be informed from next week."
WAITING, WAITING, WAITING. One more week.
Uhm I am an EU applicant (Poland) and got my offer today by email, but maybe it is different since I applied for a specific pathway. (architecture)
Anyway does somebody know how EU applicants are supposed to check their qualifications? I seriously have no idea where to find the information.
I got offers from LCA and CSM too and I have no idea what to choose!!! St Martins has the better reputation but the course at Leeds looks amazing, what made you choose LCA?
Hah, there's a lot of reasons! After going for the portfolio review at LCA and having a proper in depth tour - it beat up DMU and Lough and kicked them while they were down. I didn't actually go to any open day at CSM because I wasn't planning on even applying, but from what I saw of the uni from going there for a portfolio review, I thought that the building itself and the few studios I saw really didn't seem as much as it was all hyped up to be. I preferred LCA as it has an entire building solely for the foundation students, and can use the degree buildings too, whereas CSM seemed a lot more mixed (much like DMU and Lough,) and LCA seemed to have much better quality studios. Plus the darkroom and general photography area is mahuusive in LCA (compared to DMU and Lough.) I can't really help on comparing facilities to be honest. And, apparently CSM takes on 700 or more students on their foundation (which I honestly can't believe) but that was just read from the net. LCA themselves told us it was about 150 people on a course, which is, er, more appropriate. If I were to solely base my decision on how the portfolio review was handled and just the organisation of everything (which I know no one would ever do but idk organisation can tell you things~~~) in either place, I would pick LCA by far. You got an in depth tour and presentation and explanation of the course at LCA (and ALSO an interview) whereas at CSM you just seemed to be handled like cattle. I mean, sure, there's a high application rate at CSM but they could do better than that. But you obviously know all of that already. Even the area was a big plus for me. However much I absolutely adore London and just the whole idea of BEING in London, I honestly can't imagine plopping myself down in the centre of it all and coming out alive. Me, in all that, I get lost just in my school... Leeds is just the right size with the right amount of the right stuff in it (venues, shops, places upon which to get drunk...) Plus, the costs of London, good lord. However, CSM offer halls of residence whereas LCA only has sort of flat things. While a flat type thing really suits me, it may not for a lot of people. The course structure of LCA was much more preferable over CSM. Can't remember why, but when I researched it, it made sense. I have a friend who is on a degree course in LCA - he recommended it 100%. Aaand you get a UAL qualification in drawing at LCA. But CSM does have the reputation, and the links between the London unis, and the fact it is London, and the amazing amount of notable alumni. The quality of work of what I have seen for both of the two is superior, I wouldn't bother comparing. But in the end it's only one year if you don't like it, not like you need to stick it out for three years. That was an amazingly long list of stuff that may or may not help you (and I appear to have slated CSM on a CSM thread, oops.) Tell me your decision and we can be best buds if we go to LCA together if not, I wish you well!