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#9762

Your Funny Paese! :slight_smile: I use the Intuous4 Small. and its great for me and it also has more features. than the bambo. Also the Intous4 comes with a 5 button mouse just in case you you want a change. And its $199us

#9763

I’m just curious, any other AMers in the Maya Workshop that don’t know who their Mentor is yet or when their QA times/days will be yet?

Just making sure it’s not an error on my side…Thanks!

#9764

@phantomworkshop.

If, your in the Workshop now. I think we are supposed to find out who our Trainer is next week. As for the Q&A’s, if you check your calender, they will show up when it comes closer to the date. But there is a Office Hours Q&A coming up Wed. at 12pm Standard Pacific time. Which is a general Q&A where all of the students can join anc chat about there course work, but thats not a MS specific Q&A. but i think we have one next week. I guess you can email them and ask.

Hope this helped :slight_smile:

#9765

Thank you! That definitely helped. I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t the only one. I still find it kind of strange how we don’t have any lectures/assignments/mandatory QAs till Week 4… but oh well, I’m excited to start!

#9766

The reason they are doing it like it that is because they don’t want us to be overwhelmed with everything at once. That’s why they are giving us access to each area slowly. Like last week we got access to the News letter from 05 until now.

So its just to give you time to adjust to the site before they start with the GREAT Assignments :applause:

#9767

Man, I am so damn excited about this school.

I found out about it a couple weeks ago and immediately decided it was exactly what I needed. So I applied for the Summer about a week ago. They say it takes up to 3 weeks to see if you were accepted or not, but I’m way too excited to just wait that long without asking you guys: How long does it typically take for them to tell you if you’re in? I know that they say 3 weeks, but in my experience estimated timelines like those usually overshoot quite a bit.

Also, it’s almost making me nervous. The essay questions were a minimum of 70 words but I really went overboard on some of them, having at least several hundred per question. I doubt that would detract from my application, but how hard is it to get accepted? It seems like it wouldn’t be, since they didn’t ask for a portfolio or anything. I hope that my overachieving essay questions showed them how freaking jonesing I am about the school, but I’m still nervous. Has anyone here applied but failed to get in (aside from reasons like, you’re under 18, or you put in wrong information, or whatever)?

#9768

I sent in my application on Dec 12 or13 (on a weekend). Then I did the wonderlic test on Dec. 17th. Could of done it sooner, but I was brushing up my skills with practice tests on the weekend, most of which were a fraction what I practiced for.

Later, on Dec. 22nd I received an advertisement e-mail for the Maya Workshop, Spring, with a link to the sign-up sheet. This was odd to me. I haven’t been accepted yet, so should I be signing up for this? I e-mailed Victoria that I was interested in it, but should I wait to sign up. She pretty much said you sign up after being accepted. Bringing up the workshop, she mentioned it might be a good idea based on my application. On my application, while I make it clear I’ve got some experience in 3D, I technically had to put zero experience for Maya.

They’ve had issues with students falling behind trying to overcome Maya and not focus on animation as much as they should, one reason the workshop was created, plus something about the grading system being tightened. So it would look favorable to the admissions board if I had her pass along that I plan to take the workshop to be better prepared for the course, or train using Digital-Tutors before then. One note, on my application, I put down I work full-time, so maybe this was more true in my case where I’d have less time to troubleshoot Maya between work and assignments.

So, I asked Victoria to pass this along, but due to the holidays and weekend, the replay came on Dec. 28th, Monday. In that reply, she mentioned she hopes I’ll get an answer for my application that week.

With the short answer questions. I figure that’s what really helps them decide. With no portfolio asked for, they don’t have not much else to gone to fill the limited spots for students. So the answers might reveal how committed you, if this is right for you and your goals, etc. I wrote everyone over the word limit, just happened, but not too much so I wouldn’t accidentally cover a later question in an earlier one. Probably a tough one was short term and long term. Not knowing what the industry is like, how most people start off, I wanted to keep realistic, and how AM would get me there, followed by long term, getting to where we all dream to work or move up to higher positions, but also never quitting to improve.

A few days later on Dec. 30th, I got a congratulations e-mail as a Spring Student. Though, if I am to take the workshop that starts the same time as the Spring term, then I’d have to start on the Summer term.

So roughly from Dec. 13th, to Dec. 30th, about 17 days. Though, I sat on the Wonderlic test for 4 days to prepare, then there were the holidays that meant they were closed a bit. Right now I’m waiting for Feb 6th when they’ll get new details about the loans.

If you get a no, I hear there’s really no answer as to why. Could be anything, not even your fault, but one thing to keep in mind is to not let it discourage you from trying again. Good luck.

#9769

I applied on December 24th. They were closed all weekend but I received my invitation to do the Wonderlic exam on the 29th of December and I completed it that same day.

I received my letter of acceptance for the summer of 2010 on January 8th. All in all about 15 days but 3 of those days were holidays so they were pretty quick.

:thumbsup:

#9770

Thanks for the answers :smiley:

It’s now been 8 days since I took the Wonderlic and, I know it’s still early, but my adrenaline rushes every time I get a new email. Ughhhhh, AM, why do you make me wait RAGGLE FRAGGLE

I’m considering emailing Victoria but I have no idea what I’d say. “Hi, I applied to AM a little over a week ago. Can you look at my application right away, because I don’t feel like waiting. Thanks!”

#9771

hah, hang in there Ibeechu!! :wink:

they’ll get back to you soon enough. It took me about two weeks approximately to get my email of acceptance:argh: -it was torture! lol

#9772

I know the feeling, just be patient. Don’t forget the Winter term just started. I imagine the first month of each term must be the busiest for them since they have to deal with so many new students.

#9773

Oh, man, I think I just died. 2 minutes ago:

Congratulations Summer Student!

You have been accepted into the Summer 2010 Term for the Advanced Studies in Character Animation program at Animation Mentor!

:buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:

OK, my day’s “good” level just officially went to 11.

#9774

Congrats Ibeechu! Now we just have to find a way to pass the time until the Summer term.

:beer:

#9775

woo hoo! congrats ibeechu! lol, yeah jordan’s right. you thought that was hard waiting a week or two for an answer…your patience is really put to the test now when you have to wait till the summer!! hahah good luck to the both of you:)

#9776

Thanks :stuck_out_tongue:

But, really, as long as I know I’m in, waiting won’t be a problem. It was just waiting to see if I was accepted or rejected, and plus, I didn’t know exactly WHEN that would happen. But now I know I’m in, and I know when I start, so I’m all good :smiley:

The trouble now is taking these college classes I have exactly 0 use for. My parents made me take 12 credit hours in order to keep my student loan but the loan is only good for schools here in Michigan anyway, so I don’t see what the point is now. :confused:

#9777

Now I have another question. The acceptance email said that “Information on tuition and payment assistance will be sent out at a later date. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.” So I did, and I asked if they had an estimation on when it would be. I was reading these recent pages in the thread and saw some people having trouble with getting a student loan. So I’d like to apply for it as soon as I can so I have enough time to work out any problems before the summer term starts. I haven’t heard back yet.

How did you guys who are already enrolled go through the loan process? How long did it take them to send you information about it? I’m afraid to apply for a loan directly through SallieMae until I hear back from AM because their student loan page says “Note: Prospective applicants must be accepted into the AnimationMentor.com program prior to beginning the student loan process”. That makes me feel like if I don’t apply for the loan through AM, something bad will happen. I wish it were clearer exactly what I’m supposed to do now. It’s painful not knowing what the next step is.

EDIT: Got an email back from the loans department saying the loan applications won’t be open for Summer students until April 1st because they can’t process them more than 90 days in advance.

#9778

That’s annoying. It would be more practical if they could do some kind of pre-approval thing right away. If the worst happens, like being rejected or the loan seems unreasonable, you wouldn’t have wasted months sitting around that could of been used to find an alternative.

So April 1st they said. That means 90 days from when the Summer term starts, but is the payment due 30 days before that? So really, that gives only a 60 day window to figure this all out.

I wonder, if I want to do the Spring Maya Workshop, and start on the Summer Term, then that means I’d be starting the Workshop before I can even start the loan process for the Summer Term (a few days later)? And what about the Workshop sign-up e-mail that mentions pending loan process?

Right now, even for Spring, it won’t be until Feb 6th to start since AM is waiting to find out what changes have been made to the loan product. Wish I got more info from the e-mail beyond that, just to have a better perspective to what to expect, but I guess anything they say could be outdated soon. I just feel a bit in the dark.

#9779

this is what i got in the email

#9780

I’ll be talking on the phone with Rosie (if I recall the name right) for pre-loan counciling this Monday (8th). I mentioned I’d like to start Summer instead of Spring, to do the workshop first. So I brought up the concern about it being too early to apply for the loan for the Summer term. Luckily with the new loan changes, you can now apply 180 days in advance now instead of 90.

Still don’t know much beyond that right now.

#9781

I decided it would be better for my schedule to try to get into the Spring term so, very luckily, I asked them if I could switch from Summer to Spring and they said I could. So I now have about a month to get the loan. I emailed Rosie about it earlier and hopefully, fingers crossed, stroke your rabbit’s foot, eat some Lucky Charms, I’ll be able to get it in time and whatever these new loan changes are will help me to do that.