Getting Accepted: How to Be a Standout Applicant to SVA's Products of Design MFA Program

This post is part of our new "Getting Accepted" series, a guide to prepping portfolios and getting into the best design programs across the United States. For our first edition, we're focusing in on The School of Visual Art's Products of Design (PoD) MFA graduate program, which has an upcoming application deadline for their 2021 program on January 15, 2021. An unexpected feature of SVA's Products of Design program is their no-grades policy, but what might be more surprising is the reasoning...