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• Signage – If your home or personal room was a museum,
what would it be called and what would the sign look
like. No computer type or computer rendering.
The following are optional.
If necessary to meet the minimum requirement, or if
desired to broaden your portfolio, you may add two of
these to your submission:
• Visual Message – Create a distress/”S.O.S.” or “message
in a bottle” letter. Using ONLY found type from
magazines, newspapers, and/or other printed material
such as menus or business cards as well as photographs
of letters on a one-sided page. Size is up to you,
mention the dimensions and rationale, if any, on the
information sheet. No pictures.
• Map your day – Using various mediums (not a
computer) such as collage, pencil, ink, markers, pastels,
watercolors, etc. create a visual map of your typical day.
• Video – Create a 20-60 second video that responds to
the theme “Make/Think.”
Tips:
The pieces included in your portfolio should be the best
representations of you – how you think, how you solve
problems, how you see the world, and how you visually
compose. The work should be finished. Although there
are no requirements as to media, it is recommended that
work is diverse in nature and shows the breadth and
depth of your experience and interests. If you do not have
experience in one medium or another, then include the
work that shows your strengths. Computer work is not
necessarily the primary indicator of potential success in
graphic design.
6. Candidates for the Creative Writing Program:
Applicants must provide the following:
1) Short Story and/or (3) poems.*
2) A 600-900 word statement that discusses how one book
has influenced you as a writer.
7. Candidate for the Visual Arts Program:
A portfolio of two and/or three-dimensional work
demonstrating evidence of an applicant’s creative potential
is required for all applicants for admission to the B.A. in
Visual Art Studies program.
The intent of the portfolio requirement is to allow the
school to begin to estimate your emerging potential at
this earliest stage of your Arts education. Consistent with
the mission of our program, Roger Williams University is
interested in and celebrates the variety of expression that
applicants demonstrate. Applicants come from a variety of
backgrounds, and we appreciate this variety as a basis for
beginning the study of Visual Art at the college level.
Submission of a portfolio of 10 to 20 recent artworks
in photographic form with the admission application.
Applicants may submit color prints, or digital
reproductions on CDs. Digital Images need to be in
a universally readable format such as JPG, PDF or
Powerpoint documents. All work should be labeled with
the applicant’s name, the size of the original, and the
medium. Admissions portfolios will not be returned.
* Please see website for updated criteria regarding genre type of the
creative writing short story and/or poems.
International Student Admission
Roger Williams University welcomes students from around
the world. Approximately international students from over
59 different countries, including China, France, Saudi Arabia,
the Dominican Republic, Turkey and Panama. International
students are eligible to apply to the undergraduate program
of RWU if they have completed the equivalent of a United
States secondary school education (approximately twelve years
of formal education) and have the appropriate diplomas or
satisfactory results on leaving examinations.
Additional International Admission Requirements
All official secondary school and college/university scholastic
records in the language of instruction, as well as English
translations must be submitted.
Official Documents:
All documents submitted for review must be official; that is,
they must be either originals with a school seal and/or signature
OR copies certified by authorized persons. (A “certified” copy
is one that bears either an original signature of the registrar
or other designated school official and an original impression
of the institution’s seal.) Uncertified photocopies are not
acceptable. Submission of falsified documents is grounds for
denial of admission or dismissal from the University. These
documents should be sent directly to RWU from the institution
of attendance in a sealed envelope. School profiles, in English,
including information on the school’s grading/marking system
will facilitate accurate evaluation. All documents become the
property of Roger Williams University and will not be given
back to students.
English Translations:
English translations have to be official. They should include:
dates of attendance, name of each course, number of hours and
weeks each course was in session, grade or mark earned in each
course and grading scale used.
Entrance Examinations:
Roger Williams University does not require the Test of
English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). International
students may be admitted to RWU regardless of their
English ability. Students with a TOEFL score of 79(IBT)
may be admitted directly into their undergraduate program.
Students with a TOEFL score of 61-78may be admitted
through the RWU ESL Bridge Program. Students with a
TOEFL below 61 AND students who do not submit a TOEFL
score may be admitted conditionally and directed to the
ESL Language Center at RWU. We strongly recommend that
students who have taken the TOEFL submit their scores
for review in order to receive the best placement for their
English Level.
English Proficiency Requirement:
Students with a TOEFL equal to or greater than 550/213/79 (or
who have completed Level 112 at ELS Language Centers) can
be admitted directly into the undergraduate program. Students
with a TOEFL equal to or greater than 500/173/61 and less
than 550/213/79 (or who have completed Level 109 at ELS
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