I was going to orginally going to apply to FIT and I wrote a statement of purpose of for them. Now Im applying for SCAD.I was just seeing with a few edits could I use this essay for SCAD instead. Can you tell me if im on the right track subject wise or should I just scrap the thing and start over?
Statement of purpose. The statement should be no more than 500 words in length and should give an overview of the applicant's academic and personal experience, describing preparation for and commitment to further study at SCAD, as well as educational and professional goals and aspirations.
My name is Gianni and I really want to be a fashion designer. I believe that if you can't imagine yourself doing anything else but that thing, then that what you should be doing. I can't even think of something I would remotely like doing as much as fashion design .It took me awhile to come to terms with it, I was too busy being who everyone else thought I should.
I'm smart. I'm Magna Cum Laude, 3.8 high school GPA smart and I've always been that way. So I pretty much had to deal with my family shoving "doctor" or "lawyer" down my throat my whole life, mainly because they wanted to brag about their lawyer/ doctor cousin, niece, granddaughter, daughter. I knew that I was too absentminded to be a doctor (I could just see the lawsuits piling up). Lawyer wasn't really appealing to me either, so I set out to find a career that my family approved of and I could tolerant for the next 40 years. I went from archeologist to forensic scientist to museum curator, but in the back of my mind all I wanted to do was make the beautiful gowns the celebrities wore I saw in the magazines my mom brought.
Cliché alert: I think I got into fashion design because I come for a poor family and I was never able to get cool clothes. My mom is a single parent without a college education and two daughters she had to raise pretty much by herself. So that meant I could never really get the cool mall clothes that the "popular kids" had. The thing is that all I wanted was cool mall clothes. But all my mom could afford was thrift store clothes for my sister and me. As I said earlier, I was smart but I was also shy and quiet. To put it simply, I was a nerd and I knew it. I knew that I couldn't change my personality to be cool, but I could change my clothes to at least look cool, and maybe I would be accepted. However, 6th grade was an awakening.
The summer I was going into 6th grade my mom found out the store Rainbow had layaway. I was over the moon! I could finally get the kind of clothes the cool kids got and maybe they would like me. My sister and I picked out clothes in the middle of the summer and they were out by the beginning of school. I was really excited! I was finally in middle school; I finally had new clothes, I was finally going to be accepted by the popular kids. I was so wrong. When I got to middle school with my new clothes, nobody cared. The kids still picked on me and called me names, and were only nice to me when they wanted to copy my work. That's when I realized, "Why am I trying to impress these people? They're not that smart, they're not that pretty, they're mean to me and they aren't going to make anything out of themselves. Why do I need their approval?"
After that realization, I really started to find myself. I have been trying to fit in so long I didn't know who I was and what I liked. So like the nerd that I am, I did research. I went online and researched music, movies, art, TV shows, but fashion was by far my favorite. I always liked the red carpet aspect of fashion but when I started to research it I learned it was also about all the things I loved: art, history, and individuality. It blew my mind seeing designers, fashion bloggers, people on the streets taking things from art, history, and pop culture that they love and making them into wearable art.
I always liked fashion but that's when I really fell in love with it.
That's when I knew I wanted to make clothes that were going to speak to people and become a part of their life. A cozy sweater that matches with everything, the perfect jeans you had for years, that dress your wore on your first date with the man you were destined to spend the rest of your life with. This is why I believe I would be the perfect candidate for SCAD. I have this strong desire, the work ethic, and ambition to succeed in this field.
I believe that if you can't imagine yourself doing anything else but that one particular thing, then that's what you should be doing.
I can't even think of something I would remotely like doing as much as fashion design. ---I would leave this sentence out, as you don't need it and it detracts from the essay.
Lawyer wasn't really appealing to me either, so I set out to find a career that my family approved of and I could tolerate for the next 40 years.
...but in the back of my mind all I wanted to do was make the beautiful gowns the celebrities wore, that I saw in the magazines. my mom brought.
The summer I was going into 6th grade, my mom found out the store Rainbow had layaway.
I had been trying to fit in for so long I didn't know who I was or what I liked.
A cozy sweater that matches with everything, the perfect jeans you've had for years, that dress your wore on your first date with the man you were destined to spend the rest of your life with.
Good luck with school and have fun!
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