Chance me for RISD, CALARTS, and MASSART and I'll Chance you back!

<p>Hello there!
I was hoping you'd be able to chance me for Rhode Island School of Art and Design, California Institute of the Arts, and Massachusetts College of the arts.</p>

<p>I applied to character animation for Calarts and animation for RISD and MASSART.
I also applied to SCAD for animation, so if neither accepts me than I have a backup.</p>

<p>A little about Me</p>

<p>-I live in the northeast.
-I'm Hispanic.
-I'm fluent in Spanish and know a bit of Latin.
-I'm first generation American.
-I'm the first person in my family to go to college.</p>

<p>-A senior in high school.
-My GPA is a 3.3
-SAT 1700
-I'm in all accelerated classes aside from Art which is honors.
((My school doesn't offer AP Art ))</p>

<p>*Extra Curriculars *</p>

<p>Art Crew/Set Design (Freshman, Junior, and Senior year. )
Newspaper (Freshman)
Tennis (Freshman)
Hockey Club (Helped start it Junior year, had to quit this year for health reasons)
Multicultural club (Helped start it Junior year - Senior)
Anime club (Sophomore - Senior )</p>

<p>Awards</p>

<p>-Freshman year I participated in the National Latin exam and got an outstanding in intro to Latin.
-Sophomore year I got an honorable mention in the school art show.
-First place in School art show Junior year.
-Won a gold key in comic book art in the Scholastic art show regionally.
-Won a silver key in digital art in the Scholastic art show regionally.</p>

<p>Background Info</p>

<ul>
<li>Freshman year my all girl's high school closed down and I was forced into transferring to another private high school (with a pretty good program) closer to my home.</li>
</ul>

<p>-I attended the national portfolio day on November and every school that I saw accepted me on the spot.
-I wasn't able to check out the RISD booth, Calarts booth, or Massart booth because the lines were far to long and I simply ran out of time.
-The schools that accepted me on the spot were CCA, SCAD, AIB, SMFA, Montserrat, and some random school in Michigan I had never heard of before.</p>

<p>-I was out for a month during last quarter due to severe illness and I'm still working on make up work.
- Because of my illness I was given an extension to complete my RISD application and they received everything around 2/3 weeks ago.</p>

<p>-My current art teacher is a graduate from RISD (undergrad) as well as Calarts (graduate school) and really likes me. Therefore I can expect a pretty good recommendation from her.
- She also studied animation at both schools and worked at Disney for a short time before settling down to become a teacher.</p>

<p>-My photography teacher is a graduate from Massart and he likes my stuff so I'm sure I got a good recommendation from him as well.</p>

<p>*My Portfolio - Portfolio</a> - a set on Flickr *</p>

<p>-I also made a stop motion animation for my school play, but because I made puppets with my teacher's faces on them I don't feel comfortable showing it to the world. Though, it's pretty decent and is around 3 minutes long. There are some obvious mistakes, but for the most part I'm proud of my first animation and the reviews it got when it first showed during the play.</p>

<p>If you chance me I'll definitely chance you back!
C:</p>

<p>Oh! I also forgot to mention that the summer of Junior into Senior year I attended a three week summer art program at Montserrat and and I got straight A’s for my final grade in every class I was enrolled in. </p>

<p>-The classes were Foundations, Illustration, and Digital art.</p>

<p>Your work is good, but lacks refinement. There’s a certain beauty to be found in the details. I don’t think CalArts will like that (couple of accepted portfolios: [TrufflesTheMushroom’s</a> deviantART Gallery](<a href=“TrufflesTheMushroom User Profile | DeviantArt”>TrufflesTheMushroom User Profile | DeviantArt) and [MIMETALK](<a href=“http://mimetalk.■■■■■■■■■■/]MIMETALK[/url]”>http://mimetalk.■■■■■■■■■■/)</a>). I think you should concentrate on the basics such as light and shadow (omitting contours when necessary), building things from simple blocks and the value scale. </p>

<p>RISD: Low Reach (unless you have money)
CalArts: Low Reach (same)
MCA: Unknown… probably match</p>