Art majors want to apply for famous schools to study abroad, but they are suffering from their educational background. What if the GPA of art students is not high enough? Today, the Natural Light application team summarized several "Wulin Secrets" based on previous years' experience to help everyone pass the five passes and kill six generals!
With low GPA and double non background, art study abroad is doomed to be excluded from famous schools?
1. The educational background is not good enough, and the background can be improved to remedy it!
Because foreign famous schools pay more attention to the comprehensive development of students, the essential background improvement is to enhance the comprehensive competitiveness. To apply for overseas universities, universities have two requirements for candidates: hardware conditions and software background.
Hardware conditions: TOEFL/IELTS/GPA/GRE/GMAT/SAT and other exam scores.
Soft background: personal ability and quality reflected by the internships, competitions, voluntary activities, project practices, scientific research topics, experiments and enterprise work performance that you have participated in.
Don't ignore background improvement!
The improvement of art study background is an essential plus in the study abroad application. It serves your entire study abroad application planning. Background improvement is very important. After all, in addition to the collection of works, this is the most important criterion for judging professional strength.
They are your "history" and your "future". The school will judge whether you are the person they are looking for.
If you don't have the strength of 985/211, then participating in the background improvement project to supplement your professional "historical background" can just make up for your application disadvantage, and stand on the same starting line with everyone to launch a fierce attack on the offer!
What about background improvement?
The activity characteristics of background promotion are different, and the gold content is also very different. We need to make rational choices. It is most meaningful to choose the most suitable activity and highlight the experience, contributions, achievements and research results obtained in this process.
Background improvement generally takes five forms:
① Work (internship) experience
② Extracurricular activities/participation in competitions
③ Research projects/papers
④ Summer school overseas courses
⑤ Associations/communities/volunteers/public welfare activities
Common background improvement projects:
Activity category: Credit summer school
Summer school for credit has always played an important role in application. Being able to apply for summer school in a favorite school is like laying a good foundation for future study. Not only can I see the school professors, which is very helpful for the production of the collection of works, but also can enrich the documents. Therefore, the gold content of Summer School is very high, which is very beneficial to the application.
Activity category: international competitions and scientific research projects
The first premise of the competition must be to choose an international competition. For example, RoboRave, FCDA Awards, IDEA and domestic well-known discipline competitions should preferably be international professional competitions with high gold content. In the competition, there are not only various soft strength exercises such as teamwork, but also opportunities to improve their professional knowledge. Therefore, participation in international competitions is very advantageous for background improvement. If you win the prize, you will gain a lot of points for the application, and even get the favor of the admissions officer directly.
There are also social or national projects, social welfare projects and scientific research projects that are very good points in the application. Not only can you demonstrate your professional ability, but also your sense of social responsibility and ability to solve practical problems with professional skills.
Activity category: internship in famous enterprises
The most significant effect of internships in well-known enterprises or studios is to improve professional skills, so you can contact the industry early. This is not only to improve the background, but also to help you choose the theme of the project and take the initiative in the production of your portfolio.
2. The GPA score of art study abroad is not high enough. Work hard on the collection!
As the core investigation part of the application for art study abroad, the collection of works accounts for more than 60% of the overall evaluation, and its importance is not repeated.
This collection of works should not only show your personal characteristics, creativity and professionalism, but also show your design thinking with your personal style, and should be more diversified in the form of expression and media selection.
Every detail of every project, from inspiration research to the final product, may determine whether you can get an offer from the university.
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Well laid foundation and clear direction
Both undergraduate and graduate students need to have sufficient design foundation and operation skills first, which can solve many basic problems of project production.
Also, it is necessary to start to clarify your personal characteristics, whether a student has the sense of innovation, whether he or she has development potential in the field of design, whether subsequent learning is conducive to your completion of your own research and exploration, which is far more important than whether your collection of works is "beautiful". The application with research purpose and enthusiasm for learning is very welcome by the school. It not only reflects your personal characteristics, but also allows the school to see that you have a desire to learn in this major.
For example, an animation design applicant who loves food and tourism can design an animation work about regional customs, geographical features, and folk food. Collect inspiration based on your usual experience. This combination will enrich the project and make the final product more resonant.
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Sort out the framework of the collection
After confirming your personal interests and research directions, you need to frame your work. This part needs to be prepared according to the professional requirements of the colleges and universities in the country of application. There are two common architectural directions of the portfolio:
The first is to set a theme for the work collection, which requires that each item in the work collection is connected to each other to a certain extent to form a complete theme item.
The other is that each project is independent of each other.
Project premise: Research
The preliminary investigation and research directly determine whether your work can succeed in the end.
The preliminary survey determines the project direction and theme, and roughly divides the audience groups. By integrating the information that needs to be conveyed, visualize your creative points, and constantly improve and expand your design. Finally, typesetting and integration.
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Taboos of typesetting "fancy"
The project is finally coming to an end. Of course, you also need to visually sort, classify and arrange the project content.
Each project can have a narrative linear relationship or be independent of each other. Remember not to use fixed templates. After all, only your own personal efforts can make the final collection of works present the works with the most personal design style. Especially for graphic design majors, typesetting is a basic skill.
Moreover, I don't recommend too many designs for the layout of your work collection. Too many decorative elements will dominate the audience and affect the presentation effect of the work itself. The overall vision can clearly express the project output.
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In art study abroad, although excellent academic background and standardized scores have great advantages in application, the "double non" background and low GPA scores in art study abroad are not the reasons that hinder you. We can enrich your documents by improving your background. The level of your work collection is the important basis to truly measure your strength.
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