Chance Me Please!(Non Ivy League)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey, I want to know if you could chance me, but also help me understand which areas (if possible) I should try improve OR if you have any advice for me.</p>

<p>Major: Game/Interactive Media Design
I won't be applying to any Ivies because they don't even offer what I look for.</p>

<p>Applying to: Drexel, Digipen, Parsons New School, Ringling School of Art & Design, Savannah College of Art and Design, Columbia College Chicago, University of Utah, Art Center College of Design </p>

<p>White Female</p>

<p>Current UW GPA: 3.73
Cumulative UW GPA: 3.3
SAT: 1960/ CR 640 M 640 W 680
Rank: Top 15%
APs: Psychology(5) Environmental Science (4) Self taught-Studio Art (4) English Lang (3) Computer Science (yet to be taken)</p>

<p>Portfolio: 15 best 2D works</p>

<p>ECs:
-Leader of Recycling Group in which the recycled bottles are turned into sculptures which I design
-Presenter at the HOSIC (international conference) also the leader of the video/media group, official photographer and the designer of all posters, notebooks, folders for the conference
-Local juror at the Giffoni Film Festival, also attended a game design workshop there
-Student council, Habitat for Humanity, Leos Club (and a subproject which focuses on visiting children with cancer in the hospital every week for an hour and playing/drawing with them) + some random volunteering here and there and tutoring
-Writing 70% of the script for a school play
-Helping with the cinematography for the school winter performance in which I had the lead role, including creating a 10 foot tall tree created out of books and aiding in the costume design of the dance performance</p>

<p>Work Experience: Game Designer at Indie Game Company, Minor role in TV AD
Awards: 1st place at a TV Art competition, Department Awards for Social Studies Department and IT Department
Sports: Wakeboarding and a beginner at Gymnastics</p>

<p>2 out of 3 recommendations I am sure are excellent, the third one I think is at least good</p>

<p>Essay is unusual but stylistically good.</p>

<p>International EU student, multiple nationalities, 6 languages, 1 unemployed parent, the other one is a senior</p>

<p>I know my SAT score isn't the best, but I can't change it anymore since most of my deadlines are in Feb</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>Would you attend any of these schools for something other than art? I will chance you on that basis. Because portfolio holds so much weight, there are no safeties when it comes to art programs.</p>

<p>Drexel: Low match
Digipen: Low match/Match
Columbia College: Safety*
U Utah: Safety*
Parsons: Low match
Ringling: Low match
Savannah: Low match
Art Center: Low match</p>

<p>*If you are willing to go to that college for something other than art</p>

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<p>Please do yourself a favor and include RPI (perhaps RIT or WPI), your odds would be pretty good.
If you’re an international student who needs a lot of financial aid, some of these colleges would not provide you with aid.</p>

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<p>No Rhode Island School of Design?</p>

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<p>Hey can you explain how you you go about doing a self study 2-D art exam</p>

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<p>Well in the middle of junior year I along with one more student took up AP art, and it was the first time in our school for there to be an AP art class, so the class would last for 3 semesters. Three weeks into the class I realized the teacher was still fixated on IB standards and she was expecting me to draw things which did not follow the AP guidelines and she made me stay after school as well as on my lunch break(she also expected me to make 150+ works by the end of the year), so I worked really hard to drop the class and in the end I persuaded our administration to let me do self study and take the exam in 2 months, so basically in 2 months I composed a portfolio with 25 pieces and got a 4</p>

<p>How I did the self study? Well I used to go to art school from kindergarten until 4th grade, after that I’m completely self taught, so creating the portfolio wasn’t really difficult for me. The mistake that I did make was not including enough works that show figure ground composition, which I think is one of the reasons I got a 4.</p>

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<p>They have no Bachelors degree in anything related to games or interactive media</p>

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<p>And even if you could go to RISD, RISD is about as high a reach as nearby Brown for you…</p>