Teachers.
It's not that there are no resources, it's not that it doesn't pay attention to it, it's just that it has nothing to do with "art".
The famous school of the international high school is attacking the road.
With the gradual recognition of diversified quality education by the public, the path of international high schools as a springboard to overseas famous schools has also been included in the children's further education planning. Just as domestic students want to be admitted to Tsinghua University and Peking University, the "Tsinghua University and Peking University" that belong to international students are nothing more than Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, etc.
However, it is not easy to go on to higher education. There are several dilemmas in front of parents: first, choose a "reliable" international school; the second is to choose the right track for further study; The third is to formulate a training plan.
Choosing a "reliable" school, I believe everyone has experienced the tediousness and importance of this step. Choose an international qualification, whether it is IBO, Collegeboard or Edexcel Examination Bureau; Are there any cases of admission to top schools, how many Oxfords and several Cambridges were there for the last graduates, and what is the rate of climbing vines in the United States; Look at the number of years of schooling, look at the brand reputation, and look at the proportion of Chinese and foreign teachers; and whether the mainstream curriculum system A-level, IB, and AP are complete, etc.
But these are all looking at one thing: standardized grades.
For example, the A-Level of Fine Art at Oxford University requires AAA or AAB, and the design major at Cambridge University requires A*AA, and mathematics must be A*AA.
A-level requirements for Design at the University of Cambridge.
Scores are hard currency, and if you don't pass the standardization, then you will never be able to enter this admission threshold of a prestigious school in the first place. Therefore, a good international high school must do a good job in standardized education.
After choosing a school, choosing a track for further education is also a top priority. The reason why the art admission track has become so popular in the past two years is that some people see it as a shortcut to quickly "promote" to a prestigious school.
Source: UCAS
According to the 2023 UCAS and Pearson Collaboration Report, Chinese students' interest in creative arts and design has doubled and is now the fourth most popular major.
Of course, there are children here who love art and design, out of the pursuit of their dream profession. However, there are also characteristics of "high tolerance for admission conditions", which is difficult to find in other majors.
In addition to the common application materials such as academic scores, standardized scores, language scores, and social practice experience, art majors have their own unique review materials: portfolios.
There's so much more to talk about.
Source: Oxford University Pure Arts Application Requirements A must-have portfolio.
The path of art education.
There are four types of art advancement in prestigious schools in the United Kingdom and the United States:
The UK's top art schools, such as Lunyi and Geyi;
UK comprehensive universities, such as Oxford, Cambridge, UCL, Imperial College London, Edinburgh;
Top art schools in the United States, such as ACCD, Parsons, Pratt;
Comprehensive universities in the United States, such as Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Carmeh, Columbia, Penn, Yale, Georgia, etc.
In terms of difficulty, the grade points, portfolios, standardized grades, and other additional requirements (such as competitions, academic prowess, sports and other practical activities) are balanced and high standards.
The second is the British comprehensive university, which adopts the two-way parallel assessment of grade point + portfolio, and it doesn't hurt to be a little weaker in the rest of the place.
Then there are the top art schools in the United Kingdom and the United States, and you can use a superb portfolio to make up for your lack of grades, and even your lack of language.
Kang Shishi Dongjia-H·Art student W student shared an article Won Lun Yi Game Design BA Direct Recording was bluntly said by the ual interviewer that the grades were not good, but because of the portfolio, he got a direct record.
Under this premise, if your artistic literacy is strong enough, or even if you are a student with 0 art foundation, as long as you are willing to spend 2-3 years to find an institution to polish your foundation, it is no problem to apply to top art schools.
In the past 3 years since he came to the institution, H·Art Z has accumulated research records and received an offer from Parsons Illustration BFA Rhode Island Illustration BFA ACCD Illustration BFA SVA Illustration
However, if you want to apply for a comprehensive U, it is not enough to only have a good standardized score.
In this way, let's take a look at the information on the admission of students in MIT China, which was very popular some time ago, and the strong strength of the three children has been spread all over the Internet, so I won't talk about it here. But obviously, in addition to their high learning talents, these three children have excellent results in many different fields.
For example, Jiang Zhicheng, a genius math teenager who was admitted to MIT at the age of 15, can really be said to have been "rolled" all the way up from a childhood with a gold medal in mathematics:
It is rumored on the Internet that Jiang Zhicheng won some honors.
Another example is Kang Shishi's student M, because she is so good, I have taken her as an example many times before: in addition to the high grade point of 96 points and self-study 6 college AP courses, student M started to play programming in the eighth grade, and officially began to participate in the VEX robot competition in the tenth grade to advance to the World Championships, and even took the international referee certificate to become a coach.
She mainly applied for engineering + CS in the direction of science and engineering, but she also worked hard in the direction of pure art, and her works were included in the college board for exhibition. In addition, student M has dabbled in Go, bel canto, calligraphy, martial arts, and debate. Such a child is Mimoto's favorite type, and it's impossible not to record her.
Kang Shishi's Dongjia-H·Art M student was awarded the Johns Hopkins University Engineering+CS BS under the guidance of the institution's teachers, and his fine art works were exhibited by the College Board.
Therefore, the comprehensive strength of students in the United Kingdom and the United States is actually valued by famous schools. That is, in addition to high grade points, do you have any background improvement? Do you have any awards? Do you have any social activities? Do you have any hobbies other than studying?
It stands to reason that high-quality international schools should provide these things to students at the same time, so as to broaden the route of everyone's future development. But the reality is, it's hard.
International high school education is difficult to be all-encompassing.
In short, our traditional disciplines are doing well, but the humanities and arts disciplines are not enough.
For example, mathematics, physics, chemistry, finance, engineering, etc., you will find that there is a paradigm for international high schools to send talents overseas every year, and the more esoteric science and engineering subjects are, the easier it is to get good results. On the one hand, it is because Chinese children are smart, and on the other hand, it can also be said that our exam-oriented education subject system is relatively perfect. The aesthetic education system, on the other hand, is insufficient.
Taking Beijing's international high schools as an example, it can be said that Beijing and Shanghai are the top international high schools in the country. So in Beijing, where education is so developed, including the international departments of all public high schools, as well as private international high schools, there are really not many schools that specialize in art and design courses.
The enrollment scope of "art specialty students" in a well-known international high school in Beijing is limited to "vocal music", and there is no art design.
One of my students, who studied in the International Department of one of the top public high schools in Beijing, came to H·Art to make a portfolio, and mentioned that their school's art subject configuration is already good in Beijing, and there is a returnee teacher. However, the teacher with the strongest background (graduated from a top art school in the United States) is not in charge of teaching, but in charge of "college guidance". The rest of the teachers' study abroad backgrounds are more ordinary, with QS 500 outside of them. As a result, the school can only focus on teaching them the knowledge necessary for standardized classes, such as 2D and 3D design, art history projects, etc., and there are no opportunities for background improvement and no competitions to participate in. If you're studying computer science, there may be a lot of competitions waiting for you, but there really isn't much art. Especially if you want to study industrial design, architectural design, etc., it is difficult for even the simplest modeling software courses to be offered to a few people alone.
Therefore, if you want to study fashion design, industrial design, and architectural design, can the school provide overseas teachers with professional backgrounds, matching resources such as hand-drawing courses, tailoring courses, software courses, and basic design courses?
The reality is that it is not very possible.
As a result, many students have to choose to "find a different path" outside of the heavy workload in school. Almost all of my students learn not only to make portfolios, but also to take Harvard MIT background enhancement courses, and not to miss a single winter or summer camp paper.
First, second, fourth, fifth, six awards. It's hard to watch.
Kang Shi Dongjia-H·Art Industrial Interaction Department student H shared.
As shown in the case sharing above, the previous owner H·ART and MIT selected a group of students to study MIT's summer online scientific research project, which lasted for 4 months, and the MIT tutor personally guided everyone to write**. There are a lot of competitors in this project, and unexpectedly, some of my students who applied for undergraduate studies defeated those who applied for master's degree and doctoral degree and successfully obtained the qualification.
When it comes to awards, there are even more variety. W, a student from the first year of high school, won an international design award after only participating in a summer camp.
The winter camp group of student W won the first prize of the Milan Design Week National Competition, the second prize of Milan Design Week Beijing, the silver award of IDA, the third prize of K design, and the second prize of NCDA appearance patent.
And student W is still two years away from his actual application, which shows that the designs he creates will only improve step by step in the future. After all, the first project brought such a high level of achievement to the child, and also laid the foundation for the child's confidence and love of learning.
Nowadays, the trend is that more and more parents choose to let their children sign up for extracurricular tutoring institutions earlier and earlier to supplement school teaching. For example, student L got a bachelor's and master's degree in Edinburgh and an offer from HKU design+, and she had already started studying at the institution in her second year of junior high school. It doesn't mean that we should persuade everyone to be a chicken baby and add weight to the child's schoolwork. It's just that when your target university is Big U, Cambridge, or Oxford, you must at least stand on the same starting line as others before starting.
Grades, standardized grades, portfolios, memorizations, awards, and practical activities are all indispensable.
This is the "price" that students have to pay if they want to go to university.
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