<p>I am wondering whether portfolio submissions are limited to graduating seniors for the class of 2010, or if others are allowed to submit a photography portfolio as well.</p>
<p>If so, is it possible to submit multiple portfolios?</p>
<p>Lastly, what if photographs taken were in a foreign country and it would be impossible to obtain model release signatures? Are model releases critical at all?</p>
<p>Go down to the “about us” link and send away questions to everyone on the list Cc other parties but change every mail toward THE person and Cc others. so it doesn’t look like cheapo group mail.
personalized e-mails get faster reply.
I have not done for the Socialistic but usually, biggest shot replies quickest in any organization. Now, why is that???</p>
<p>I always read and believed portfolio award are restricted to seniors, which is stupid because seniors are done apps by the time they knew the result.-supose you could update to get more scholarships or even contribute to decision making if you are in limbo (deferred, wait-listed) Same goes for Random house contest, NAFF.
Well if you are as good as winning them in spring, you are already fabulous in fall, in your case, in frosh, soph, junior years. I have seen kicking butt works done by fourteen year old. But if they let them do portfolio, senior winners’ number would decline, thus beat the purpose of college scholarship, because that fourteen year old genius is yet to discover weed, sex and rock’n roll and waste his/her highschool GPA and testing if not the life in general.
Scholarships awards cure sick but won’t raise the dead, money should beallocated to where best used.</p>
<p>Bears and dogs - I got the first part about sending the email to multiple people, but I apologize - I have no idea what you’re talking about in the second paragraph. Is there any way you could rephrase what you just said?</p>
<p>Sorry, I do not even know you are HS kid or familiar with whole awards game.
Most high profile art contests are aimed for HS seniors, application deadline is early fall to winter, there will be some semi finalist thing during late winter, final result comes in spring.
If you are a senior applying to college early, you don’t know the result to be listed in your awards part of the application.
Some colleges will make decision anyway without knowing either you are big winner or little winner, or no win at all.
You can always report to the colleges you have not heard from yet or accepted but with little financial aid money to update your new awards and better grades etc to make your chance better, especially you are wait-listed or deferred from ED EA to regular decision pool.</p>
<p>About fourteen year old kid part, I always check Scholastic winner’s ages and state, schools and there are trend in much younger kid winning individual high awards.
But I believe they are not allowed to enter portfolio awards, the most prestigious and big moneyed ones, that I believe you are inquiring about.
My theory is that, they are too young to win because even their works are better or on par with HS seniors, they have long time before applying to colleges to utilize prize money.
For the sponsors who pay for them, there are bigger risk that those young ones won’t be successful college applicants than seniors about to graduate and already or just about accepted to colleges when they are to be named winner.
It is just my view, and make sense to me. What do you think?
Only talents and skill should matter since not the olympics or weight lifting, playing field is same for fourteen year old or eighteen? After all, they already balance out regional issue so age/grade should not matter?</p>
<p>You can submit more than one kind of portfolio - I’m sending in an art and a writing one. However, I don’t think you can send two of the same kind, and you can’t send them in if you’re not a senior, which is stupid. But your portfolio will be that much stronger if you take another year to improve it.</p>
<p>So, as a junior, I can only submit individual pieces at $5 a pop?</p>
<p>Also, is it possible to have multiple individual submissions in the same category (photography)? Can I send multiple submissions in 1 CD with all the forms printed out, or do I need 1 CD per submission (which seems incredibly silly)? Sorry about inundating you guys with questions; as you can probably tell, it’s my first time submitting for the organization (and my first paid submission ever).</p>
<p>Yes, a student in any grade but 12th can only submit individual pieces.
And yes if you’re submitting multiple pieces (you can submit more than one to the same category) you must put each one on a different CD. It’s silly but that’s how it works!
My question is why are you asking this now? The time for submissions has already passed.
I entered one piece this year, and was just at the regional awards ceremony two days ago.
Are you asking so you can enter next year?</p>
<p>Um, I think due dates vary region by region. When I enter my school zip code, I get a:</p>
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<p>message. So I’m speculating that you have a local Affiliate and they set the due date a bit earlier.</p>
<p>And the due date for me is:</p>
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<p>EDIT: That’s ridiculous! Why would you need an entire 700MB CD for one 4MB image?! I thought many companies/businesses were making attempts to be more eco-friendly, but I guess Scholastic Art and Writing just isn’t one of them.</p>
<p>Or they are tech challenged, at least they aren’t asking for slides ( one art school rep had said "it is so much easier and faster, you put them on the light table and done! " )
I can see that one CD per piece would be more time/human cost effective in their end because they can just separate in good and bad piles after viewing them. Maybe get recycled en masse somehow.</p>
<p>Oh okay, nevermind. I directly emailed them and asked yesterday and they replied today and said that it would be OK if I submitted multiple images together on the same CD.</p>