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College can be a frightening experience, especially when your deciding where to go. For artists, its also very important to pick the right school. The process of reviewing art schools, and the anticipation in waiting to see if you got accepted into the great ones. The first day of art school is such an amazing experience. I remember walking into my visual perspective class of my dream school on the first day. It was full of drafting tables and drafting chairs filled with bright eyed artistic students just like me. Hopefully every artist can have this kind of experience. To ensure that you are one of these, follow these few tips when preparing for college.

Always check out the alumni of a college you are think about going to. If the students from that college don’t seem to get the most prestigious positions, you may not either. Do a lot of background research on any school you consider attending. You should defiantly apply to a school if it looks like their students are very successful. Don’t let a good homepage and a fancy letter they sent you in the mail trick you. With the art industry, a big part of getting noticed is going to a well renowned school.

Another thing that is important when picking any college, not just art, is the location. It seems silly that location should matter so much, but it does. College may be school and it may be about preparing yourself for your career, but its also a long term thing. You cant hate your location because you live there.If you go to a college in a small conservative town and you are a liberal, big city type of person you probably wont like your college experience much. While in college, you have to make friends and live with people. If you don’t like where you are, you wont be able to like your college.

Also very important is both majors and minors. You cant automatically choose a college just because it has your major. You have to make sure they have good minors or other classes to supplement your major. If you’re looking into something like photography, you may want to minor in a subject like journalism so that you can have photo-journalism as a fall back career. If your major is graphic design, you may want to minor in business or a similar subject so you have all the skills you will ever need.

Don’t let choosing a college overwhelm you. It is totally worth all the work once you get to college. But that is the important word, work. You have to put some work into it so that you can have the best experience. You shouldn’t have too much trouble as long as you research the colleges you’re looking at. Just make sure to do a lot of thinking and you have to be sure that you will like the college you pick. The best part of growing up and being an adult is most defiantly going to college.

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