<p>Does anyone have previous experience with competing in the Scholastic Art and Writing Competition, namely the Personal Memoir and Painting categories?</p>
<p>How do universities regard recipients of gold keys, or does this national contest hold no significance whatsoever in college admissions?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance</p>
<p>Its website [Apply</a> | Alliance for Young Artists & Writers](<a href=“http://www.artandwriting.org/Awards]Apply”>http://www.artandwriting.org/Awards) does not provide detailed instructions regarding the registration and submission processes.
Exactly how is the teacher involved in this situation? Does he or she merely supply necessary signatures for application forms, or will there be a collaborative effort between the student and teacher as far as obtaining feedback and advice goes?</p>
<p>Also, what are the approximate deadlines for the 2012 competition? Because the site has not been updated with the most current date information, I conducted brief research on submission dates from last year, and they were somewhere around early January or late December depending upon the category to which the work belonged.
I am still contemplating whether or not to participate in this contest, so knowing the deadlines would be helpful in determining how much time I have left.</p>
<p>I’d like to know as well.</p>
<p>Main Questions:
<p>2) How do colleges view an award from this competition? Would the achievement potentially become a significant factor in college admissions?</p>
<p>3) Any feedback from your past experiences of competing? Tips on how it actually works, such as the teacher’s role, or the fact that there is an absence of a uniform prompt to which students respond through their work? etc.</p>
<p>4) Important deadlines(currently not displayed on website?)</p>
<p>1) Why not?</p>
<p>2) I’m fairly certain it hold some value in admissions. It’s a proper contest and seems prestigious.</p>
<p>3) I’ve never entered, but from researching I gathered that you just need the teacher’s signature to sort of “prove” that it’s your own work. </p>
<p>4) 2012 guidelines and stuff hasn’t come out yet. the deadline for the 2012 competion is somewhere in February 2012</p>
<p>Um… please don’t do this just for college applications.</p>
<p>Hey everyone.
I’ve applied for the awards two times.
It’s great if you do apply, and if you get something. But it has to be GOOD work, otherwise do not insult the judges by sending them garbage. </p>
<p>You do not need a teacher signature, you just need a teacher to be your sponsor. </p>
<p>and start working on it now, the deadlines tend to change a bit from year to year. But the earlier you start the better your work will be.</p>
<p>I think it is a good award for colleges. And I think they value it high since it is a major national competition. But I will warn you by saying that they like a umm different type of writing style. Look at the online collections to see what I mean.</p>
<p>Zombiedante,</p>
<p>they take all different forms of work. It’s not “different” as in weird, negative, or off.
Some of it is pretty good.</p>
<p>Most of the art is great, but then there are a few sketchy ones…</p>
<p>It’s not prohibitively hard to win, but you definitely have to put a lot of work and again, I strongly advise you to refrain from this competition if you only intend to do it for college applications.</p>
<p>If art or writing are passions that you have worked on for a while, I definitely encourage you to enter. You will have to register with your zip code because the competition is divided into various regions, each with its own deadline. My region’s deadline this year was 1/7 (the Feb deadline is for novels). The website might not have the deadlines up yet. I didn’t have a teacher sponsor me, but I did have to print out submission forms and get my past creative writing workshop teacher to sign it.</p>
<p>As a creative writer, I felt extremely awarded when I found out I won a gold key. If your art means a lot to you, you don’t need a college’s approval to be motivated to enter this contest.</p>
<p>Right now I am definitely planning on submitting an oil painting because I have been working with a professional artist for a while, and it would be nice to have work judged outside the studio :)</p>
<p>As for the writing (poetry, script, maybe persuasive essay) I am still looking for inspiration.</p>
<p>Wait, what does it mean when the teacher becomes your “sponsor”?</p>
<p>Does Scholastic disclose all the deadline information to the public or only to those who register in fall?</p>
<p>Hmm…it seems as though most of the gold key writing on the site is fiction. I am more interested in persuasive essays XD</p>
<p>@Untitled,</p>
<p>when you sign up there is a section where you put in some teacher information. I honestly forget if it’s called a sponsor (perhaps someone else can enlighten us on this part), but you need to fill in at least one teachers info. I had my art teacher do it.</p>
<p>@Blackrose Some of it’s good. A lot of it’s mediocre though, and some of it’s even bad. Not just compared to everything else, but actually bad. That’s not to insult the kids who worked hard on them, but…the best in teenage writing it doesn’t seem to be. This is something that I’ve also been wondering about though, because I’m going to be going for a senior portfolio this year, and am wondering if there is a certain style they’re biased towards.</p>
<p>look at the past senior portfolios.
They want someone who can think for themselves, has a message etc.</p>
<p>They don’t really want anything deep and revealing, but they want something that describes you. </p>
<p>Good luck on it.
A lot of people spend a whole year on those things.
I’ll be applying for art and writing portfolios, although I do not want the scholarship money to go to art school. I just want to win lolz :D</p>
<p>I haven’t been able to find complete senior portfolios, only the "best of"s of the last 2 years. Where could I get more information on what they’re looking for? I know their site, but that only seems to say that they look for talent, which isn’t that specific, and, like I said, doesn’t always seem to be the case. From what I’ve read though ZombieDante seems to be on the mark when he says they go for experimental writing just for the sake of it being experimental.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is a site for that.</p>
<p>I’ve looked for it as well. :/</p>
<p>and lolz ZombieDante is a ■■■■■, he just posted whatever so that he could get his post count up. </p>
<p>But they accept crazy things, I would not call it experimental though…</p>