<p>I'm going to be a junior this year and i really want to go to a good art school that also has good academics. My first choice (long shot) is Brown and RISD Dual Degree Program, but I would be ecstatic if I could just get in to RISD. Other schools I'm thinking of are NYU, Sarah Lawrence, Syracuse, Yale (haha yeah no joke), Cooper Union, Colombia, SAIC, MICA, U of IL Chicago, and Parsons..my safeties are MassArt, UArts, UVM, FIT, Corcoran, College of Creative Studies and Moore College of Art & Design.</p>
<p>here is a link to my art on my tumblr
<a href="http://the--shine.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20artwork%5B/url%5D">http://the--shine.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20artwork</a></p>
<p>My main weakness (which i'm hoping to improve this year) Is SATs..i only got a 1700 on PSATs and I did pretty bad on practice SATs but I don't remember what I got...so those don't really count but I really need to improve this year on that
My GPA is a 3.77 unweighted and a 4.2 unweighted</p>
<p>freshman year i took 3 honors classes: Geometry, Earth Systems, and English and I got A's in all of my classes except Geometry and Earth Systems, which are both weighted..
sophomore year i took 4 honors classes: Algebra II, Bio, English, and Art as Democracry, Propaganda, and Resistance which is like art history but much more interesting. I had the same that year pretty much: all A's except math & science
junior year I'm taking 3 honors/ap classes (hopefully 4 if they have room): Junior Portfolio HOnors, AP Psych, AP english and hopefully Honors Chem</p>
<p>ECs
I've worked for a year so far at Artworks where i assistant teach art to kids, i have tutored my neighbor for 2 or 3 years, i teach Sunday School at my church, I sometimes help at meals on wheels, i'm a member of National Art Honors Society (Junior Coordinator next year), I'm the graphics/ art editor for the school newspaper, i do art enrichment, and I teach a class at the elementary school in art..i also am going to be working this year at panera..</p>
<p>I'll probably be good with the essay, and recommendations...i know 2 art teachers who would give me great recommendations
OH and i am HOPEFULLY (fingers crossed) going to be doing the RISD summer program next year, if my mom lets me because she doesn't want to pay for it but I'm working 2 jobs sort of now so fingers crossed</p>
<p>oh and i forgot I've gotten 3 art awards from the school:excellence in art as democracy propaganda and resistance, excellence in design fundamentals, excellence in printmaking. and i won 3rd place in pencil in the county art show, and i think there is another one that i'm missing..but i can't remember it right now</p>
<p>I want to major in art education, art therapy, art history, fine arts, painting...something like that...I like Parsons, NYU, and Sarah Lawrence because you can make your own major, which is also why i like the dual degree program.. If there are other schools you can recommend, ways for me to look better to colleges, or improvements to my art that would be great! (oh ps my art is not my portfolio, although some of it may go into my portfolio but prpbably only a few pieces of that)
Thank you!!!!</p>
i went to the program this summer. if you want to talk about it, you can contact me.</p>