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All applicants must submit formal documents of their level of education and accomplishments to be considered. Undergraduates and transfer applicants must submit unofficial transcripts of their high school diploma or equivalent. Graduates must submit unofficial transcripts of a bachelor's degree or equivalent. Transcripts can be sent to your admission adviser.
Curriculum Vitae:
The résumé should document educational credentials as well as professional and other employment such as internships or field experience in the intended area of graduate study, and should list commissioned works, exhibitions, performances, publications, honors, memberships, interests and activities, including volunteer work.
Personal Statement:
The statement should be a 500- to 750-word overview of the applicant's academic and professional accomplishments and should demonstrate a high level of interest in and a highly developed understanding of the discipline. The applicant should describe knowledge of the discipline, approach to past work, qualifications for graduate study and intended focus, as well as personal and professional goals.
Recommendation Letter:
Letters of recommendation should be provided by two professors, advisers, supervisors or community leaders who have had immediate contact with the applicant, and who have knowledge of the applicant's level of commitment and history of achievement.
Recommendations should provide relevant information about the applicant's creativity, initiative, motivation, character and achievements, thus assessing the applicant's reasonable potential for success as a student at SCAD. Recommendations may not come from friends or family members.
Portfolio:
The portfolio should be specific to the intended course of study, should represent the applicant's best work examples, and should demonstrate a high level of craft presented as professionally as possible. The portfolio, audition or writing submission is scored according to a rubric relevant to the intended course of study and type of submission.