I got into York Uni!!!
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- eggnog0
if you think you're going to graduate and make lots of loot you're mistaken my friend-- graphic design is the wrong field for you. perhaps engineering or medicine would be a better fit? most of my friends that have managed to find design jobs since graduation are either:
a) working for free as interns
or
b) working for minimum wage
i graduated from ocad just over a month ago. ocad is a good school. the administration is full of assholes that want to oppress the students and financially fuck them every which way but the faculty (for the most part) is pretty solid. i'd say 60 % of the student work is competant--meaning it's technically sound but generally lacks imagination or thought. i'd say 15 % falls into the well thought out, imaginative, well-executed category of design. i suspect the student work at most schools breaks down the same way.
if you were smart you would have gone to the year end open house at the beginning of the month. that way at least you could judge for yourself.
in the end all that really matters is how hard you're willing to work and how much you want to improve. excellent faculty and facilities are no substitute for drive and ambition.