For art students studying abroad, application documents are "the second set of hidden works". Although the works account for a large proportion of art students studying abroad, application materials and interviews cannot be ignored. And we often talk about the application for studying abroad in the arts, which is more than just documents, languages, and collections of works. In the early stage, we choose schools, countries, and majors; Medium term diploma certification, send scores, fill in online application, polish documents; Later appointment, interview, school determination... In addition to the small links in the middle, there are about more than 20, and this is just the needs and process of one school. On average, each student applies to 5 schools, and each school has different requirements and time nodes. The degree of difficulty and complexity can be imagined. Now, natural light brings you experience sharing in applying for overseas study in Bochen Art, Seeing that the application season is approaching, combining classic application cases, the experience of applying for art study abroad in the early, middle and later stages of the application brings you 16 exclusive tips from Yu Bochen!

　　 Applicants are "good teachers" and "beneficial friends". Undergraduate application seems simple, but it needs more special attention

Although our position is "application teacher", in my opinion, our work is not limited to the school application work. Since we took over the students, we have been known as "good teachers", but also "good friends" in nearly a year's relationship.

Are you curious? I know that many children and parents define the job function of applying for teachers as "responsible for writing documents and submitting materials". For example, I am in the undergraduate group. Even though I am in Beijing, my students are all over the country, or even all over the world (some students are overseas).

My students are generally young, most of whom are in adolescence, many of whom have just graduated from high school. I have met the youngest children who have just entered senior one, aged 15 or 16. So when helping them apply, my colleagues and I should not only pay attention to the children's application needs, but also their curriculum progress, especially their emotions and psychology.

Many children will ask many questions in the early stage of application, and even many embarrassed and professional teachers' feedback will come to me or the teaching administration teacher. I was once asked by a delicate and sensitive student: "Teacher, I think my paintings are not good at all, they are better than me"; "Teacher, do you think it is a good choice for me to study art? My family doesn't support me very much, and they want me to take the college entrance exam"; "Teacher, I'm under a lot of pressure recently. I don't want to go abroad..." and so on.

And I found that children in this age group have an obvious "characteristic" that they are afraid of their parents' disappointment and are very strong, but in fact they need support. Many people say that studying abroad in the arts is a matter for children alone. I don't agree with them very much, because for young children, they need their parents' advice and positive guidance, and more importantly, they need their parents' full support.

Professional teachers will give professional teaching help to children, and academic administration teachers will supervise their life and learning progress. As an application teacher, I will follow up their application status and needs all the way. I will encourage her again and again, give her motivation, tell her to believe in herself, and since I like it, I will persist without hesitation. You may regret what you choose now for a while, but if you give up now, you will regret for a lifetime.

This student wanted to give up many times, but every time I caught her feeling depressed, I would talk to her about her ideals and achievements after graduation. Later, the students enrolled very well. Seven of the eight schools applied for received offers, and many others won scholarships. So sometimes it is not really inferior to others, but you can not recognize yourself.

Yu Bochen's experience in applying for art study abroad Tips:

1. Start preparing as soon as possible. Don't be embarrassed to expose your "weakness" to the applicant teacher. I once met a student who was embarrassed to tell the applicant teacher the true IELTS score and wanted to submit it after the second time of scoring, so he missed the application. Only when the teacher fully understands you can he serve you better;

2. Having read in a foreign country does not mean that you can be exempted from language test. Each school has different requirements, and even if there are, most of them are very strict;

3. The seemingly simplest academic certification may directly lose the application qualification once it is wrong;

4. If you apply for a teacher, sometimes it's not that you are inferior to others, but that you don't recognize yourself.

　　 The preparation of materials is boring and complicated, but it also requires patience and concentration without losing the collection of works. Receiving an interview invitation does not mean that you are a student of the school. Many people are rejected after the interview.

It took more than half a year to finally prepare all the application materials: completed the collection of works, obtained the language scores, prepared the heavy academic materials, and revised and polished many times until the perfect personal statement and resume. However, these different materials are completely different submission methods and submission times.

After students officially enter the application stage, the application teacher needs to do a lot of application work. It includes TOEFL IELTS SAT score sending, filling in online applications, sorting out document requirements, sorting out portfolio requirements, checking the email every day, replying to school emails in a timely manner, guiding students to supplement materials, making appointments for interviews, conducting interview coaching, and so on. It is particularly important to submit the documents accurately and timely according to the requirements of each school.

But these are just the jobs of one school. Each student needs to apply for more than one school. The workload is doubled, and it is very complicated and tedious. Because of this, many students will submit their applications to institutions. In fact, I understand the anxiety of children. After all, we were young... For us, this is a kind of trust, but also a kind of trust.

There is a time difference between countries. During the peak period of appointment interview, many students will attend the interview at the same time. The working time abroad is just in the early morning in our country. This may be used to our teachers who apply for jobs all the year round, but it is a "new thing" for many students.

If you can also ask for help in material preparation, the interview is to go to the battle in person. In recent years, the interview of British and American colleges and universities has gradually been taken as an important link to examine candidates. A student asked me: If you get the interview invitation, it means that you have been selected by the school. As long as you play the normal offer, you have a good chance of winning? Boy, you think too simply.

In just 20 minutes, discuss your works and your life with a completely unfamiliar professor, and try to impress him. For most Chinese students who are accustomed to "introverted" and "modest", it is not a small challenge.

One of my students this year, Liang, applied Art Center School of Design In fact, there is no interview for ACCD undergraduate students, but the school sent an email saying that it wanted to chat with students, so it arranged a skpye interview.

It's about two o'clock in the afternoon, American time. In China, it's five o'clock in the morning. That is to say, students and I will be ready at four o'clock in the morning and get in touch with teachers on skpye in advance. The students were so nervous that they couldn't sleep the night before. It was very cold at that time, only the convenience store was open, but the steaming food had not yet been put on the shelves, so we had to wait for the interview to begin hungry. (Hard, nervous, and looking forward to...)

But there was an accident in the interview. The ACCD was not online all the time, and the students were very worried. We didn't have any information until 5:30. I comforted the students and sent an email to the school. The school replied to the email that the interview teacher had just gone to a meeting, so we could start the interview immediately.

I know that such interviews may be common for schools, but for students who are interviewed overseas for the first time and have accidents, their nervousness has definitely increased. In order to help children settle down, we took the time to review the previous "drill" before the start, and the students quickly calmed down, The interview started smoothly.

At the application stage, we will encounter many problems of this kind, which not only require us to stick to our posts late at night, but also deal with unexpected problems in a timely manner.

Yu Bochen's experience in applying for art study abroad Tips:

1. The paperwork is complex and messy. After the target institution is determined, it is necessary to understand and clarify the application rules and details of the intended institution as soon as possible;

2. Students who choose institutions should submit materials in a timely manner at the request of teachers, without delay; For DIY students, it is recommended to name the folder according to the name of the school and sort it out to avoid submission errors;

3. The application materials should not only "keep improving", but also "do as you can". It is forbidden to apply templates or misappropriate other people's application cases in order to package yourself;

4. The online "short" interview is not necessarily really short. In 2018, one of our students talked with Lunyi interviewer for two hours;

5. After receiving the interview invitation and thinking that the interview was "smooth", many students were rejected. When you still want to prepare after receiving the interview invitation, the gods have already started to see the scriptures as early as in the stage of works collection;

6. It's hard to avoid a rollover during the interview. Before the formal interview, the school has already known some of you through the documents and works collection, while during the interview, the school hopes to feel your logical thinking and ideas more directly through language expression;

7. Contact the interviewer before the scheduled time to avoid the avoidable and minimize the chance of accidents during the formal interview.

　　 If you get the offer, everything will be all right? Finalization also requires extensive research, "preview" interview in advance, and is also responsible for yourself

Most students and even some teachers think that there is little work to be done in the later stage of application, but it is not true. After the school offers, students need to struggle about which school to go to. At this time, it is very important to apply for teachers. We need to make analysis for students, from the geographical location, local geographical climate, tuition, living expenses, to the school faculty, employment, and previous student case studies. After comprehensive consideration, we can provide students with reference to determine the school.

After the school is fixed, you also need to apply for I-20 of the school, as well as a series of work such as selecting courses, applying for dormitories, and finally apply for visas and face to face coaching.

One of my students last year, He, was refused his first visa because of the special circumstances (we considered that it might be because he had emigration experience at home). The child was very emotional. At that time, the child's grandmother came to the natural light, and I met her. The child's grandmother also showed great worry and depression: "I'm afraid the child can't go abroad".

First, I calmed the child's grandmother and told her that our former student had been refused two or three times, but it was still a real case of getting a visa. As long as we find out the specific reasons for the rejection, apply the right medicine to the case, and perform well in the next interview, it will be OK.

After that, I called the students to appease them and ask them to come to the company for several more face-to-face practice sessions. Later, I worked with another teacher in the application department to list all possible problems and correct behaviors of students from answering questions to their behavior during the process of face signing. We practiced for 4 times. Finally, the student's second visa was passed.

Every year, we have to process the applications of many students at the same time. To be honest, there is comfort, sadness, happiness, and anxiety. But when my students gradually receive offers, they show happiness and joy, and express gratitude to us, this feeling makes me more like my career.

What impressed me most was a Illustration Design Study Abroad After receiving the offer from dream school, the children of, sent us a message in the group, saying: Without you, we would not have the current results, and would not receive the coveted offer. Thank you very much, teachers. Every thank-you and blessing from the children makes every teacher of natural light feel that it is worthwhile to pay for them.

Yu Bochen's experience in applying for art study abroad Tips:

1. Getting the offer does not mean the end of the application. It is another challenge to determine the school according to your own situation and national conditions;

2. When the school of entry is determined, conditional offer students should continue to apply for language scores, or apply for language courses, and also need to contact the school to apply for visa materials;

3. The interview should not be ignored. "Preview" in advance can improve the success rate

The application for art study abroad is a long process. As the teacher in the application department said, many people's orientation for the application teacher is to "assist in writing documents and uploading materials". But actually? In natural light, the job and responsibilities of applying teachers are far more than these two basic jobs.

Today, we have shared Yu Bochen's experience in applying for art study abroad. "Application" is a complete "routine". The application team is a comprehensive system, and the documents we often say are just one part of the whole system. Not only the natural light, many institutions and teachers have repeatedly stressed the importance of documents, but in fact, application is a continuous process from "students began to want to study abroad" to "finally smoothly integrate into school life".

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