<p>I am thinking about applying Early Admission to Champlain for the gaming program. I hear it is hard to get in to. I’ve already visited, but I know there is a specific gaming open house in November just before the Early Admission deadline. I heard there are supposed to be portfolio review nights too. Does anyone know when these usually are or can anyone give me any advice for doing the portfolio?</p>
<p>Hi Asylar,</p>
<p>You are correct that our gaming programs are some of our most competitive majors. We will be doing portfolio reviews at both of our Fall Open Houses, as well as the Gaming Open House you mentioned that takes place in November. For all of these portfolio review days (and any others), you need to make sure you register in advance to set up an appointment for your portfolio to be reviewed. We will share the information for how to register for these reviews when we send out information about these open house events. We will also have a few additional portfolio review dates later in the season, which we will be posting on the web soon.</p>
<p>As far as doing the portfolio, I’d start thinking about what you want to do now! It’s a good idea to start planning and preparing so that when school starts up again, you don’t find yourself juggling too many responsibilities at once. It’ll also give you more time to think about your answers to the written component of this portfolio. You can see our expectations for each portfolio here: [Portfolio</a> Requirements | Undergraduate Admission | Champlain College](<a href=“http://www.champlain.edu/undergraduate-studies/admission/applying-to-champlain/portfolio-requirements.html]Portfolio”>http://www.champlain.edu/undergraduate-studies/admission/applying-to-champlain/portfolio-requirements.html)
My only other advice is something you’re already investigating - attending a Portfolio Review. It’s a great opportunity to actually have your portfolio evaluated and given feedback by the same people who will be scoring it down the road.</p>
<p>I hope that helps! Please let me know if you have any additional questions.</p>
<p>Hi Nicole!
Do you know if you can have your portfolio reviewed more than once? Having it reviewed at the open house in November will be cutting it close to the early admission deadline in case I need to make changes. Thanks for letting me know they do them at the earlier open houses. I’ve seen the portfolio info, I was just looking for some examples. I have an idea for it already. Thanks again!</p>
<p>Hi Asylar, I’m actually not sure, but I’d imagine we’d try to avoid having you do more than one portfolio review. The reason for this is because we only have a limited amount of faculty and a limited amount of spaces for these reviews, so it’s unfair to other students if one student is able to take up more than one of these spaces. That being said, I’m sure you could keep in contact with faculty if you have questions about changes you might make after your first review, but in general that’s going to be your time to really get everything figured out. Since you’re concerned about having time to make changes, I’d try to attend our first Fall Open House on September 15th and take advantage of a space then! </p>
<p>Let me know if you have further questions!</p>