'to find a bigger audience' - LETTER OF INTENT FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL

When I was 14, I started attending painting classes, and within the first year, I was the best student in oil and watercolour painting. Three years later, I decided that I wanted to expand my artistic abilities beyond the use of canvas and paper. That's when I got interested in graphic design and the infinite ways in which you can provide different audiences with not only a graphic, but and idea.

This last October 10th, I was the only student out of other 11 classmates to graduate with honours.

On my last semester of school I received a Mitacs Globalink scholarship to form part of the research project Strategic Design Visualization in the University of British Columbia, and thanks to this, I was able to visit the installations of the Center of Digital Media and learn more about the Masters program for which I'm applying.

This visit also served to prove further my point that just knowing the fundaments of graphic design is not enough anymore. Every single day, new channels of communication are being created, and as a designer and illustrator, I need to be able to compete with these new technologies and to be able to improve the abilities that I already have. With this in mind, I've begun to take basic HTML classes and 3D animation courses using Cinema4D, as well as video animation using Adobe After Effects to improve my graphic design abilities and learning to create paintings and drawings with digital tools instead of the traditional materials to be able to keep applying the knowledge that I already have of painting.

By entering to the Master of Digital Media, I plan not to keep improving these abilities, but also find more ways of applying them and combine both traditional and digital techniques. Digital media offers the opportunity of connecting with people all over the world; it can connect with an audience from Canada to Japan, New Zealand to Brazil and so on and on. This not only allows us to find a bigger audience, but to also achieve a more ecological result and magnify the range of understanding of the design than the traditional ways, like flyers or posters don't allow us to do.

- Berenice, I will be honest with you and tell you that your letter of intent for graduate school does not work the way it is supposed to. That is because you have not provided any true information regarding your interest in masters studies. You used the first few paragraphs to talk about your back story instead. In a letter of intent, you need to immediately inform the admissions officer about the reasons behind your desire to enroll in their school. That is why I separated the paragraph above. That is the immediate answer and basis of your letter of intent. Throw away all the other paragraphs and revise your essay, concentrating on developing the content of this paragraph.

Remember, there are only 4 questions that should be your guide in writing this letter:
1. Why do you want to enroll in graduate school?
2. What are your professional experiences relevant to the need for advanced studies?
3. What academic foundation do you have to claim success in this field?
4. What are your long and short term plans for your future career after graduation?

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