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You will need to apply with the same materials as a US citizens would, using a portfolio (and/or audition, depending on which department you are interested in attending). However, in addition to this, you will also need to consider a few other things as listed on CalArts' admissions page:International ApplicantsUnlike many other American colleges, for admission to an undergraduate program, CalArts does not require that you sit for the SATs. Academic credentials obtained from your country of origin that prove that you are of college going age may suffice. You must however have proof of proficiency in the English language (either through school transcripts or taking a test), and proof of being able to finance your entire education.Essentially, any one who is artistically capable and is deemed an appropriate match for the program they are applying to, can be accepted to the school. CalArts loves diversity!

It's fine as an alternative but rather limiting as the major focus of an educational push. Linking it up with gender makes it feel more like a slogan than an alternative.My son, who teaches in the arts, uses the STEAM formulation, putting arts into the mix. When he visited us this weekend, I gave him my copy of Richard Florida's The Rise of the Creative Class. With the turn of much that is digital towards the visual, it is hard to imagine a world where STEM becomes the end all of education. In California, CalArts, the school started by the Disneys, is moving towards applicant acceptance rates similar to those of the most competitive STEM schools due to their ability to place students in the burgeoning creative industries.So, if your kid really did not embrace trigonometry, don't force him or her to think that it's STEM or nothing. It just isn't.

I attended CalArts in the mid 90s for high school summer art program (CSSSA) two years in a row and it changed my life as a teenager forever. It’s a visual and performing arts college just North of Los Angeles with a population of 1,489 students.I attended New York University for graduate school in the mid 2000s. Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in Tisch School of the Arts. NYU has 36 times the student population of CalArts. If you were trying to compare CalArts with a research university in Manhattan which offers every subject under the sun, I have to believe that you might be a arts-focused college applicant aiming to maybe attend one of these three schools for visual and/or performing arts. Besides an obvious difference in population, scope of subjects, and cultural contexts (Los Angeles vs. New York), if you are simply looking for an art program, then perhaps NYU vs. CalArts is a matter of whether you want to be well rounded by the big Apple, or if you want to have your mind expanded by the “Calartian” art school culture, reminiscent of Disney and Tim Burton. But given you’re not asking which is better, but rather which is “worse”, I begin to question the savory intention of the question being asked.And if that were not enough. enter Vassar college, formerly a women’s Ivy League counterpart school that went coed in ’69 after turning down an offer to merge with Yale. They are roughly double the population of CalArts, and are located in Poughkeepsie, which is suburb halfway upstate New York. So at least you are already half-way to Vermont. Vassar is the least urban of the three, but it does offer a visual and performing arts degree, which it awarded to just 79 people in the last couple of years. If you are trying to accel in the Arts, I can’t say that Vassar won’t be sufficient. I’m sure they are a fine school. Ultimately, if you are trying to ensure that your art career gets off to a good start, that power is more within you as the student than it is with the institution you are expecting to teach you. Be a student anywhere you want, and do the work that you, yourself, need to do, in order to become a good visual/performing arts careerist. That said, I have issues with the inclusion of Vassar in this group of three. Here is why:Vassar is a snobby Ivy League culture school (even though not technically in the ivy league) whose population is 67% white. It sounds like the kind of place where your New England Mom and Dad would prefer you attended rather than a less conservative (read: less proper, or somehow lower quality) school like NYU or CalArts. NYU is only 32% white, while CalArts is 40% white. If your family wants to keep you white, then go to Vassar. They have a fine Quidditch team.Calarts overall US-nationwide ranking is 448. Their best ranked major is drama and Theater Arts, and the same is true for NYU, whose overall nationwide ranking is 125. On the other hand, Vassar’s best ranked major is General Psychology, and has a nationwide rank of 63.Honestly, I have no idea why you would want to include Vassar in this comparison. It sticks out like a sore thumb. It makes me wonder if you are someone in a school that is higher up in the Ivy League echelon, and you wish to poke fun at a lower ranking college by framing it in a Quora question in such a way that causes answerers to place it in the same arena as non-ivy-leagues. Well it’s not in the same arena as NYU and CalArts. Seriously kid, Apples and Oranges.None of these three schools are “worse” than the others. If you are trying to study visual and performing arts, try attending both NYU and CalArts. It doesn’t matter which order. Do your undergrad at NYU, then do your graduate at CalArts. Or vice versa. It’s enriching to be on both west and east coasts when learning about the world.On the other hand, if you are trying to live a more simple life away from the city, and get yourself a safe, comfortable, well rounded degree from a reputable school and make your white family proud of your progress in the world of white people, then go to Vassar. I ain’t mad at ya. But if what you seek is Visual and Performing arts, there are other schools that are more commonly mentioned in the same breath as NYU and CalArts. But somehow, I gather that’s not why you asked.Please respect these schools. They are all doing a far better job at teaching than you can.