Can I apply for studying abroad across different majors? Students who decide to apply for art study abroad across majors are often brave enough to challenge themselves to jump out of the comfort zone, but it is naturally much more difficult to apply across majors, so students need to make application plans in advance and catch up step by step according to the time axis. Today, Natural Light has invited senior consultants, applicants and professional teachers of Natural Light to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of changing majors from various perspectives, and how to prepare to ensure that everything is safe.
Can I apply for studying abroad across different majors?
Senior consultant of Natural Light: Mr. Zhang
Mr. Zhang is a highly qualified gold consultant in the Natural Light consultant team Art Study Plan Work for 4 years. We often encounter some "difficult" problems of studying abroad, but they can be solved one by one.
Mr. Zhang introduced that one student, Italian undergraduate scene design, applied for interior design across disciplines, made application planning in advance, and learned a lot of basic knowledge in the early stage. After that, he completed four portfolio projects in about one year, and finally applied for award-winning offers from RISD/SCAD/Syracuse University and other universities!
At first, this student was very worried about changing his major, but we worked out the most suitable application plan for him to refine the things to be done at each step. The professional tutor also dug out what he was good at, broke through the professional bottleneck, and finally got an offer from the ideal university within one year.
Pictures of student works of natural light
From the perspective of planning, colleges and universities are divided into comprehensive and artistic categories: comprehensive universities have high requirements for TOEFL and GPA, and TOEFL 100+and GPA3.2+are the minimum requirements. If the undergraduate GPA is not superior, students will be advised to take the GRE test to make up for the lack of GPA; The requirements of art universities are lower than those of comprehensive universities, but they also need TOEFL 90+and GPA3.0+.
Therefore, when choosing a major, you should also consider whether your comprehensive scores have advantages. If you don't have advantages, you can choose an art school with lower requirements. However, the reason why this student was able to successfully transfer his major to RISD was that he started planning more than a year in advance and left time for basic study.
Natural light senior document: Mr. Li
Mr. Li is a key teacher in the application team of Natural Light. He has been engaged in the study abroad industry for five years, and is proficient in the art study abroad application of various countries in this research. His specialty covers all directions. Through sincere, considerate and careful service, it has been widely recognized and praised by students and parents.
According to Mr. Li, in terms of personal background, students apply for cross majors and have relatively little experience in related activities. However, it is necessary to break professional barriers, realize discipline interaction, and turn weaknesses into advantages, which is also the real place to turn corruption into magic.
Pictures of student works of natural light
When applying for cross major applications, based on the students' backgrounds, we should sort out the commonalities of design majors, and highlight the students' design skills and abilities. It is also necessary to dig deeply into students' experience of activities related to the target major, and make statements and displays in the documents to highlight students' enthusiasm and dedication to the major, as well as their future learning plans.
The students in the early stage of preparation are lack of clear logic for document writing, and they do not understand from which perspectives feedback material is more helpful. In order to solve the students' doubts, we can share the outstanding cases with the students here. Excavate the knowledge accumulation of communication with students, inspire students to open their minds, and guide students to provide specific dimensions of activities that can better demonstrate professional potential.
Natural light professional tutor: Mr. Wang
The professional foundation of students who change majors is generally weak, so they need to enter the basic courses in advance. In addition, there will be a lack of relevant experience in the target major on your resume, so you must be prepared for a protracted war.
I have been exposed to a case of changing her major to apply for animation before. Her undergraduate is Guangmei's illustration major. She started from the basics of animation completely, and finally won offers from six universities including CalArts, the first in the United States!
Apply for the annual "Fengmao Lingjiao" CalArts Animation Postgraduates and competitors must have students majoring in animation, most likely undergraduates majoring in animation in the United States, and even undergraduates majoring in animation in our school. Therefore, only if the collection of works is excellent enough can it stand out in such a strong competition.
The core of the Meiyan Animation Professional Collection is animation short films, and the story version, text description, and art set set around this short film.
She studied illustration as an undergraduate, so she has a strong foundation in art. However, the basic knowledge of animation production is relatively weak, and story telling, style control and story version separation are the key points of portfolio coaching.
Pictures of student works of natural light
Considering the display of her personal ability, she showed many interdisciplinary elements in her animation works, combining illustration and animation.
In the basic course, we also need to focus on the practice of animation principles, introduce some platforms like vimeo to let students find materials independently, so that students can have a set of ways and processes to make animation videos by themselves as a whole.
Generally, students who change their major will be a little confused about the collection of professional works in the early stage, and do not know how to start. At this time, they need to help students sort out the logic as a whole, and then guide students to develop their brains and explore their own topics of interest to create.
Technically, including the basic professional principles and relevant software operation in the early stage, it is necessary to learn well, which directly determines whether the production of later works can proceed smoothly. Therefore, we should start to prepare as soon as possible, set aside a lot of time for basic courses, and do not lose at the starting line.
Can I apply for studying abroad across different majors? The above three teachers analyzed the problems that should be paid attention to in the application for studying abroad from different perspectives. In fact, the interdisciplinary students also have some advantages in the application: unrestricted design creativity, focus and investment derived from love, and upgrading and integration with the original majors.
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