I'm a senior applying to the Fashion Institute of Technology and I have to write an essay answering this question "What makes you a perfect candidate for FIT? Why are you interested in the major you are applying to?" so I wrote an essay and I just need someone to tell me if its okay
Decisions, Decisions
by Julia Snowdon
I have never been good at making small decisions. Simple choices, like what to eat for lunch tear me apart inside. Eenie-meenie-miney-moe has saved me on multiple occasions and when you think about it, the game is truly brilliant; as soon as you begin you know exactly what you want your finger to land on. Making simple choices isn't easy for me just because I don't want to miss out on a thing. And while you would think the lack of an ability to decide something simple would make enormous decisions tough, they aren't because when the outcome matters I know what I want. For example, you would think deciding where I want to go to college was nearly impossible, it wasn't really.
Making the choice of wanting to go to FIT was actually easy once I decided I wanted to study fashion. Knowing for sure I wanted to study fashion actually came quite easily as well. In high school I took fashion classes taught by Mrs. Cunningham, an FIT graduate. In these classes we were taught simple sewing skills, some of us (myself included) moved on to more complex skills as we continued the program through high school. I have been involved in the fashion program at my high school for all four years now, and am expected to present a senior collection at the end of the year. It was in this class that I discovered that I wanted to study fashion. Naturally my first instinct was a desire to study design. As soon as I learned how to create patterns and clothes I knew I loved it. I loved the way something could come from what I viewed to be nothing. While I knew I was inept artistically, I decided with drawing classes I could do my best and it wouldn't matter because I could over come it. And just like that I was set on fashion design.
It wasn't until one day when Mrs. Cunningham was absent that I realized I would much rather be on the business end of things. With Mrs. Cunningham not in school that day, it was planned for us to watch The Devil Wears Prada. I had never seen this movie, but in the scene where Miranda Priestly must chose between the two turquoise belts and her assistant Andy Sachs says the belts appear the same because she is "still learning about this stuff", a point was brought to my attention. The fashion industry affects not just those interested, but everyone. The decisions made by the buyers and sellers of the fashion world indirectly dress the shoppers, those are decisions greater than the buyers themselves. I realized thats exactly what I want to do, because while I love the artistic side, and I love to sew and create, I would rather make decisions and be in a position to influence the masses.
My interest in fashion is obvious, as it is for anyone applying to FIT, therefore it doesn't adequately explain why I make the perfect FIT candidate. I know make the perfect candidate for FIT because I'm more than my interest in fashion. Fashion is a major part of my life, but I like history, math and countless other things that can do nothing but help me in with my future in fashion. Knowing that I would be the perfect candidate for this school made it easy for me decide this is where I want to be. I was able to chose Fashion Merchandising and Management as my major because of the realization during the belt scene of The Devil Wears Prada that I want to be working in a wider area of the industry than just as one designer. After I get my associate's in that I don't know which option I will go with for my bachelors and if when the time comes that I have to decide if I really don't know what I want more I can probably do eenie-meenie-miney-moe.
Thank you soo much!
