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You also must submit an official college transcript and two letters of reference for admission into the program. You can ask your references to upload their letter to your online application or mail them directly to the school.
Curriculum Vitae:
A current résumé is optional. You may upload your résumé to the Attachments section in your ePortfolio.
Personal Statement:
You must upload a 500- to 700-word statement of purpose that describes your writing or research. Discuss how you came to focus on writing at the graduate level, as well as why you are interested in SAIC for your graduate education and what you hope to gain from your time here. Please include a short description of your reading practice and interests. Upload your statement of purpose via your ePortfolio
Recommendation Letter:
You are responsible for securing two letters of recommendation from persons who are qualified to write about your potential for success at SAIC. If you are currently a student or are a recent graduate, we recommend you request letters of recommendation from current or former instructors.Letters of recommendation should be submitted electronically via the References section of the application form. In this section you will be asked to provide an email address for each of your references. Once you click "send request," an email will be sent from SlideRoom to your references with instructions on how to submit their recommendations online.If your references are unable to provide an online recommendation please contact the Graduate Admissions office at gradmiss@saic.edu.
Portfolio:
Applicants are required to submit an ePortfolio. You must submit a separate ePortfolio for each program or studio department to which you apply. After you pay the application fee and submit the application form, an ePortfolio for each of the programs you selected in the application form will automatically appear in your SlideRoom dashboard.
Your portfolio should include a sample of your recent writing from at least one of the following genres (in .pdf format up to 10 MB each):
8–10 poems OR
2 short stories OR
1 excerpt from a novel OR
1 play or performance text OR
1 hybrid text from multi-genres OR
1–2 short works of nonfiction
If your work incorporates other media—images, video, sound, comics or performance—you can upload video, audio recordings, or digital files to supplement your writing sample in one of the following formats:
Images: .jpg, .gif, .pdf (up to 5 MB each)
Videos: .flv, .wv, .mov (up to 60 MB each)
Audio: .mp3 (up to 10 MB each)