Rejecting an Art School Applicant

I'm (45M) a professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and I'm part

of the admissions committee. Last year, we had a lot of applicants

and we had to be very selective. One of the applicants was a young

Austrian man (19M at the time). He had submitted some drawings of buildings and landscapes,

but they were very mediocre and lacked any artistic flair or expression.

He also seemed very arrogant and entitled, and he didn't show any

interest in the human figure or religious themes, which are essential for our curriculum.

I decided to reject his application and told him he should try architecture instead.