<p>Since the chance me forum is overflowing with seniors scrambling to see if their past four years will pay off, I thought I might post my queries here. </p>
<p>Some of you may know that Brown and RISD are launching a joint program next year. It is a 5 year program for students who want a BFA from RISD and a bachelors from Brown. To qualify, you must get into both schools. I would like to know what my chances of getting into this program is, and what I can do to improve. (I am a junior)
(somewhat like the tufts/bostanmuseumschool.)</p>
<p>Although both schools are very competetive, I am not as worried about RISD as I am about Brown.</p>
<p>I have a mediocre GPA. I have taken honors and AP classes, and my current grades are at a 4.1. However, my cumulative is not so high, since during my freshman and sophomore years I was less academically motivated, although I was not a total slacker.
It is at about a 3.5 with the first semester of junior year added in.
I have not taken the SAT, so I do not know what my scores are, but I am a very good test taker.</p>
<p>Junior Year Classes:
AP UShistory
AP English Lang+Comp
Academic Spanish 3 (could not take honors, due to schedule.)
Academic Physics
Advanced ArtQuest VisualFineArts</p>
<p>Projected Senior Year Classes:
APGov+Econ
APEnglish Lit
AP/HonorsSpanish4
AP Studio Art
AP(?)Biology or Academic Chemistry. (this depends on scheduling)
JC-Fashion construction, arthistory, fashion history/cut history, figure drawing, painting.</p>
<p>I was a 2008 California Arts Scholar, and I attended CSSSA Innerspark for visual arts.
I have also been in an arts magnet program called ArtQuest for the last three years (I am currently an advanced student, and will be in AP next year.)
I had a piece in a juried show at the sonoma county museum.
I intern for a man named Charles Becker, who is a renowned oil painter.
I volunteered for the bird rescue center in my home town.
I was a CIT for a local city camp geared towards lower income children.
I teach art at the Imagine Bus program (A program that brings after school art to the poor elementary schools in my county.
I attended CTY for creative writing.
I am a three year member of amnesty international, and this year I was a founding member of a local student run club called Students for Social Justice, (which focuses on educating our peers about local, national and international issues so that they can start to make informed decisions and become politically independent people.)
I was a batmitzvah.
I am a member of the GATE knitting club.
I helped to organize the highschool component of a local walkout, and I helped to organize a die in (about gaza.) (I am not sure if mentioning a walkout is all that great for school applications. :/)</p>
<p>Beyond that, I am a very strong writer, I take classes at my local JC (I decided that I wanted to learn to dance, so I have taken introduction to dance, ballet and jazz, although I have not had a lot of dance experience.) I am a very strong sewer, it has been my obsession since I was seven years old, and my grandmother taught me to sew. My plans for the future are still up in the air, but what I have figured out so far goes as follows: I plan on taking another precollege art program, although I think I am going to study fashion design this time instead of a painting intensive. I am planning on taking arthistory and painting and a couple of fashion classes at the JC during my senior year as well. I am currently in the middle of revamping my etsy, I plan on selling handmade clothing off of it.
My academic interests are very strongly rooted in the humanities and english side of things. I love history, especially the russian revolution, the french revolution, the enlightenment (and enlightenment era literature) and anything in the baroque period. I am also very interested in the workings of dictatorships, and the way that people have historically manipulated the public opinion to be in support of those governments (or not, as history goes to show). I love to read, and I have been an avid reader since I was a young child.
I am not sure how to show those interests, since they have no club affilations…</p>
<p>Random facts about me are that I can build bikes, I am obsessed with antique lace, especially lace collars, and I have done NaNaWriMo three times, 05,06,07.</p>
<p>Also, I had an epiphany at the end of sophemore year, which really changed how I thought about myself, the person I wanted to be and the way I was living my life. As a result, I stopped a lot of my bad habits, and I have really changed the path that I was going down. I have been really happy with the way my life has been going because of these changes that I had to make, and I think that the process of realizing what I wanted from my life has made me a lot more driven and focused.</p>