Art applicants for 2012 entry

I applied for fine art at: Oxford, UCL, Edinburgh, Dundee, Reading
foundation course at: St Martins, Kingston, Plymouth

Got my oxford rejection letter today. Oh god, remembering back, my Ruskin panel interview was horrific!

Has anyone heard from St Martins or Kingston? I sent my application off to St Martins and they got it but I haven't heard from them.

^^^ for foundation btw

so tutors dont really have a preference? my work is mostly smaller so a2 is better

Do you have a foundation? If not then Goldsmiths wont consider you anyway. Edinburgh requires you to be predicted AAA If you read the 'additional info' bit even though they offer BBB. It might be worth a shot though. Newcastle is good too. If your scared then i'd take an insurance as well, one thats easier to get into, like Kingston, Reading or Brighton. Still highly ranked but less competitive than the other your looking at.

Sorry to butt in here, but if you are going to to for an insurance instead of a harder one, I wouldn't go for Kingston, Reading or Brighton. Especially not Brighton...Their Fine Art Painting course seems near-impossible to get onto, even though it isn't ranked as highly as places like UCL etc. I mean...it's in Brighton, for one thing. Also, if you don't have a foundation, I wouldn't bother because you're basically supposed to have one. They say they under "special circumstances" or something they might consider someone from A-Level, but it's highly unlikely they actually would considering the number of applicants they have that have actually done a foundation.

I'm doing a foundation at the moment, and nearly everyone who's applying for Fine Art has Brighton as one of their five (you know you get five, right? It sounds like you were just thinking of four). I do, too, but I don't expect to get in. Their Printmaking course is apparently a bit easier, because less people apply for it.

Still, my point is that if you are going to apply to an insurance, I'd look at places like Loughborough, Leeds College of Art, Leeds Met, Sheffield, Manchester Met...It all really depends on whether you want to risk not getting offers, like you said. I wouldn't say that every other course is "crappy", though. You can get good courses at less popular places...And in the end, the course will be what you make of it. Someone might get into UCL and do "worse" than someone who went to Loughborough in terms of what they get out of it, depending on how much effort they make.


Anyway, sorry about the semi-rant I guess if you really want to go to uni next year, add in an easier option or two. If you could stand not getting in and applying again the year after with better work, go for the higher ones.

hi thanks so much for your help, i didn't mean to say crappy... just kinda wrote it without thinking, i just mant courses that were less competitive or something like that lol... so where are you studying your foundation? i was thinking of leeds college of art but these choices are just so scary... lol

Yeah, I know what you mean. I wanted to apply to all the hard places at first because of their reputations, but it's not very encouraging when you hear about how many people apply each year compared to how many actually get in. So, now I have UCL, Brighton, Nottingham Trent, Leeds College of Art and Loughborough. I don't really want Loughborough (just because I don't really know much about it) or NTU, though. Oh well.

If you're thinking of Leeds College, I'd apply there It's different to other places because it's not a uni, and the course is more structured I think, but it's nice there. And it's loooooads cheaper than London and places like that. But yeah, it is pretty scary. I keep thinking that I'm not going to get an offer from anywhere, and I'll be stuck til next year. I think I can basically rule out UCL and Brighton, which leaves me with 3, 2 of which I don't want and the other might not want me either...

Again, oh well. I'm just doing my foundation at the local college in Cambridge, nothing too special. What about you?

yeah i think i will choose leeds then thanks for your help... yeah UCL seems so amazing but sos so difficult to get in... i was thinking of brighton as well but i used to study nearbrighton and kinda feel i want to find some new scenery or something like that. cool, i heard unis much prefer people who do foundation;s loccally because it means the individual wastes less time travelling. i'm studying my foundation at csm at the moment. want to swap and exchange work? it wouldbe cool to see

I've yet to hear back from St Martins. When did you send off your application?

Just sent off my application

Did a BTEC ND Art&Design .. Triple Distinction
Currently doing a foundation course
Fine Art
Just sent off my application to
UCL (BFA), Goldsmiths, Chelsea, Wimbledon (Print & Time Based Media) +Westminster....

Good Luck all.. exciting times!!