Help finding schools for technology/design/art!

OK -- RIT is a perfect school for all of those areas. It's freezing and not very pretty -- but their labs are amazing. Check out their virtual summer program offered the first weekend in August. It might also help you narrow down what you want to study.

Also look at Drexel. Both of those schools offer co-ops which give you work experience before you graduate. Syracuse has great programs as well but know that their industrial design program is 5 years for a bachelor's degree.

SCAD is terrific as are the various art schools like RISD , Pratt, etc. However, the art schools are not as generous with financial aide and offer fewer opportunities to study other non-art things you might be interested in.

We met a design student at MIT this weekend who said she applied on a whim and was shocked that she was accepted. You never know.

if you're going for art, try Savannah College of Art and Design! Not sure if that's too far for you but they have a really high acceptance rate of around 81% and they're one of the best art schools in the US. Ofc there's also Julliard but that one has like a 7% acceptance rate (also one of the best schools in the US but tuition is like mad mad expensive, if you saw anything in the news about strikes regarding Julliard, that's what that's all about). Last ones I can think of is the Pratt Institute and NYU is pretty good from what I've heard but I don't really know too much about either.