Summer Scholarship Essay

Before I share why I’d absolutely do anything to attend Pratt’s precollege summer program, and why I think it will help me in unimaginable aspects, let me give the reader some insight about me and my life. I am a Jewish 16 year old boy who grew up and is still growing up surrounded and encompassed by Jewish life. I would never knock Judaism in any regard, I believe religion, for everybody, helps gain clarification or at least purpose for even those whom are completely uninvolved. I have changed since I was a kid. As a kid, born and raised in Canada, I attended an all boys, extremely strict private school that didn’t really care if you were different or had any talent whatsoever. Nothing besides religion was important to them. For as long as I can remember I was doodling, all …show more content…
To be honest, my 2 art teachers think I have a lot of talent, and while they may or may not be right, I believe I am lacking in basic skill sets that every artist should have. The precollege summer program will be so extremely beneficial to me that it is almost hard to put into words. I am an extremely dedicated and hard worker, and my art means everything to me, but I lack time. I’m honestly so nervous that I won’t have a full enough portfolio finished in the next year, to be able to get into my top-choice art school; the Pratt Institute of Art and Design. It is my dream to go to Pratt for design, and I think the Pratt precollege summer program will not only help develop the current love I have for the campus and the artwork being produced in school, but will also give me the understandings I need to excel in life in and out of school, when it comes to my artwork. I intend to grow this summer, I intend to explore art in ways I was never given the ability to do, and I intend, for the first time in my life, to give every single second of my time this summer to work purely on art during my time at Pratt’s precollege summer program, thank