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Important Deadlines
Spring 2025
Applications for Spring 2025 entry is available on Common App. An application is considered complete and ready for review when we receive all required materials.
Priority Application Deadline: November 15, 2024
Applications received after November 15, 2024 will be reviewed as space is available in the Spring class.
Fall 2025
Applications for Fall 2025 entry is available on Common App. See full application details below. An application is considered complete and ready for review when we receive all required materials.
Early Action Deadline: December 1, 2024
We encourage high school students applying as first time undergraduate students with complete portfolios to complete their applications by December 1. All application requirements need to be fulfilled, including letters of recommendation and your high school transcripts. If you complete your application by December 1, we’ll send you a decision and your scholarship award (if applicable) before the new year (or we’ll be in touch by December 10 to ask for any supplemental materials we might need in order to render a decision). This decision is non-binding. If more time is needed to work on your portfolio, we encourage your application by the February 1 deadline.
Full Tuition Scholarship Deadline: February 1, 2025
Applications received by February 1 will automatically be considered for the Full Tuition Scholarship.
Priority Application Deadline: March 1, 2025
Applications received after May 1, 2025 will be reviewed as space is available in the Fall class.
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Tips & Notes
- For information on how to transfer, credit evaluation and placement, scholarships, and additional application requirements, see here.
- For more information on how previous students can re-admit to the college, the requirements and application, see here.
- Financial aid and merit-based scholarships are available, and 100% of our degree-seeking students receive financial assistance in the form of federal and/or state aid, grants, and/or scholarships. If you plan to apply for need-based aid, you must complete the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid), if you have not already done so. The FAFSA can be completed online here.
- If you have questions about applying for financial aid, please see this page or contact the Office of Financial Aid by email at finaid@meca.edu or by phone at 207.699.5073 or 207.699.5074. Maine College of Art & Design’s FAFSA code is 011673.
- For portfolio support, our Pre-College program (for teens ages 15–18) offers a rigorous three-week residential program designed to help high school students discover their future as an art student, develop a portfolio, earn college credit, and meet other artists of the same age. Click here for the Pre-College Brochure.
- Nondiscrimination Policy: Maine College of Art & Design does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, national origin, physical disability, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs. We admit qualified individuals without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, physical disability, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin, to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school.
If you have any additional questions, please contact the Admissions Office at admissions@meca.edu or 800.699.1509.