Application Guidelines
Art Talent Scholarship
Whittier College
Art Talent Scholarship Application Deadline
Fall 2018 Applicants: All Art Scholarship Application materials must be
received by Friday, February 16
th
, 2018. You must be admitted to Whittier
College before applying for talent scholarships, so complete your Whittier College
application ASAP, before its February 1
st
deadline to guarantee consideration.
Fall 2018 applicants are also invited to attend an optional Art Department
Preview Day event on Saturday, February 24
th
. Please contact Professor
Danny Jauregui at djauregui@whittier.edu for event details and to RSVP.
Spring 2018 Applicants: All Art Scholarship Application materials must be
received by Friday, December 1
st
, 2017. You must be admitted to Whittier
College before applying for talent scholarships, so complete your Whittier College
application ASAP, before its November 1
st
deadline to guarantee consideration.
Required Application Materials
All submissions must be emailed. Email your completed Information Form
and Essay to talent@whittier.edu. Follow the directions below to submit your Art
Portfolio. Instructors must submit their own recommendations.
• 1 Student Information Form.
• This is a fillable PDF form. Please fill this form out on your computer, save
it, and email your electronic submission.
• 1 Essay by the Applicant: In one to two pages express the importance of art in
your life presently and what you see as the place it will hold in your future.
• 1 Instructor Recommendations: Must be completed by an art teacher or
private art instructor. Instructors must submit recommendations
directly to talent@whittier.edu. Instructor recs submitted by
students will not be accepted.
• This is a fillable PDF form. Please email this form to your instructor to fill
out on their computer and submit electronically.
• Art Portfolio: 10-20 Pieces of Art. At least two pieces should be drawings. To
submit, create a DropBox account. Create a new folder in DropBox, and title
that folder “Your Name Portfolio.” Copy .jpg image files of all portfolio
submissions into this DropBox folder. Then, to create a view-only link to this
portfolio folder, follow DropBox’s directions to Share a Link to the folder
and email that link to talent@whittier.edu.
• The DropBox website provides full instructions for how to Share a Link
(https://www.dropbox.com/help/files-folders/view-only-access) using
Windows, Mac, Linux, or smartphones.
• Share a Link to the entire portfolio folder, not to individual images.