Pratt Institute Undergraduate Viewbook 2022–2023
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2 Architecture Art and Design Education Associate Degree Programs Communications Design Construction Management Critical and Visual Studies Digital Arts Fashion Design Film Fine Arts Foundation Game Arts History of Art and Design Industrial Design Interior Design Photography Writing
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10 Every morning between 8 and 10, there’s a parade of people hurrying to class with sixfoot canvases, architectural models, and bulging black portfolio cases. Some have worked through the night to make the morning deadline. 12
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Every square inch of the white Homasote walls appears to be punctuated with tiny pinholes— that is, every square inch that is not currently covered by student plans, designs, carpet samples, and paint chips push-pinned to the walls, awaiting scrutiny. Many rooms on campus are like this: pocked with reminders of the hundreds of critiques where students put up their best work, and other students and teachers try to find in the work as many flaws as the wall has holes.
No one notices as we take a seat at the back of the class. The first pinup has been underway for five minutes, and all eyes are riveted on the work.
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This is the place. Pratt Institute.
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Founded in 1887, Pratt’s mission is to educate artists and creative professionals to be responsible contributors to society.
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Founded in 1887, Pratt’s mission is to educate artists and creative professionals to be responsible contributors to society.
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Pratt Institute is situated on Lenapehoking, the traditional and unceded homeland of the Lenape people, past, present, and future. The Lenape people have been living on this land long before the United States was established, and their wisdom is essential to our time.
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We acknowledge that the genocide, theft of land and resources, forced migration, and systematic cultural oppression of Indigenous Peoples and Nations have a long-lasting impact on the living conditions, mental health, and cultural lineage of Indigenous Peoples and Nations. We acknowledge that the colonizers and their descendants have benefited economically and socially from the oppression of Indigenous Peoples and Nations, and we commit to repairing inequity and rebalancing the power distribution.
As learners and educators, we recognize Indigenous Peoples and Nations’ long-time traditions of making art and storytelling. We acknowledge the significance of their creativity and how often they are unrecognized as artists, designers and writers, while their culture is appropriated and taken by other artists, designers and writers.
Only when we are informed of our past can we collectively envision our future. We begin by properly naming the land we reside on and recognizing ourselves as (in) voluntary immigrants to this land. We will actively work to challenge the legacy of settler colonialism, undo its extractive and exploitative land practices, and express gratitude to the stewards of the land and water who came before us, and honor their descendants who are here today.
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Faculty
Pratt’s more than 1,000 faculty members are awardwinning professional artists, designers, architects, and writers who mentor their talented students to achieve comparable success. These faculty members expect that Pratt students will meet the same high standards upheld in their professional work. With different views, methods, and perspectives, they all share a common desire to develop each student’s potential and creativity to the fullest—to graduate competent and creative professionals who will shape the world to come. Faculty serve as important connections when students are ready for employment or internships.
Alumni
Pratt has approximately 26,000 active alumni, whose achievements are a testament to the soundness of the Institute’s educational philosophy. Pratt alumni have designed well-known and award-winning furniture, clothing, buildings, and commercials, as well as artworks that are regularly exhibited in major museums and galleries. Pratt’s alumni include the most renowned artists, designers, and scholars in their fields, from actor Robert Redford to Adidas sneaker designer Marc Dolce and Jeremy Scott, Moschino’s creative director.
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Notable alumni of Pratt
Derrick Adams
Multidisciplinary artist, performer
Xenobia Bailey
Fine artist, designer, cultural activist
William Boyer Designer of the classic ’55 Thunderbird
Alfred Mosher Butts Architect, game inventor (Scrabble)
Shawn Christensen Academy Award winner
Tomie dePaola Children’s book author and illustrator
Jules Feiffer
Cartoonist and playwright
Harvey Fierstein Playwright and actor, Torch Song Trilogy
Bob Giraldi Film director, Michael Jackson Coke commercial
Felix Gonzalez-Torres Installation artist
Bruce Hannah
Furniture designer for Knoll, named Designer of the Decade in 1990
Eva Hesse Sculptor and painter
Betsey Johnson Fashion designer Ellsworth Kelly Minimalist painter
Edward Koren
Cartoonist, The New Yorker
Naomi Leff Interior designer George Lois Advertising designer
Robert Mapplethorpe Photographer
Peter Max Pop artist
Kadir Nelson Painter, illustrator
Norman Norell Fashion designer
Roxy Paine Conceptual artist
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Beverly Pepper Sculptor
Sylvia Plachy Photographer Charles Pollock
Furniture designer
Paul Rand Graphic designer, created IBM logo
Robert Redford Actor and director
Phoebe Robinson Comedian, writer, podcaster, actress
Edel Rodriguez Artist, illustrator, children’s book author
Robert Sabuda Illustrator
Stefan Sagmeister Graphic designer
Jeremy Scott Fashion designer
Annabelle Selldorf Gallery and museum architect
Robert Siegel Architect, Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman
Mitchell Silver Award-winning planner, commissioner of the NYC Parks Department
Pat Steir
Contemporary painter and printmaker
Mickalene Thomas Contemporary artist
William Van Alen Architect, Chrysler Building Tucker Viemeister Product designer, Oxo Good Grips
Max Weber Modernist painter
William T. Williams Painter Deborah Willis MacArthur genius and artist
Robert Wilson Avant-garde stage director and playwright
Carlos Zapata
Residential and commercial architect
Peter Zumthor Pritzker Prize-winning architect
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Brooklyn Campus
Consistent over its 135-year history, Pratt’s campus has always served as a center for connection, community, and creativity for our faculty, staff and students.
Just 25 minutes from Manhattan, Pratt’s main campus is located in Brooklyn’s tree-lined neighborhood of Clinton Hill on 25 acres of manicured land, making Pratt the only art and design school in New York City with a traditional residential campus. A beautifully landscaped oasis, Pratt’s campus is a visual respite in a busy city. Clinton Hill has a history that is intimately intertwined with that of the Institute. A century ago, it was home to the elite of Brooklyn. The expansive mansions lining Clinton Avenue belonged to the shipping magnates and mercantile princes of the Gilded Age. Charles Pratt, whose fortune derived from his partnership with John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil, started his Institute on family land just a few blocks from the family mansion. Clinton Hill is one of New York’s premier Victorian-era neighborhoods and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In part because of Pratt, it boasts an extraordinary number of creative artists, architects, designers, illustrators, and sculptors among its residents, many graduates of Pratt’s programs raising their own families in the neighborhood.
Beyond this rich heritage, Pratt also has several distinctly modern buildings that have been constructed in the past two decades. The 26,000-square-foot Higgins Hall center section, designed by Steven Holl Architects and Rogers Marvel Architects for the School of Architecture, opened in 2006. The following year marked the opening of the 160,000-square-foot Juliana Curran Terian Design Center, designed by Hanrahan Meyers Architects, the firm led by Thomas Hanrahan, former dean of Pratt’s School of Architecture. Pratt’s newest residence hall, Emerson Place, was also designed by Hanrahan Meyers Architects.
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Manhattan Campus
Pratt’s Manhattan Center is located at 144 West 14th Street, within walking distance of Union Square, Chelsea’s art district, and many other leading educational and cultural institutions. The seven-story, 80,000-squarefoot property offers state-of-the-art facilities within a distinctive, turn-of-the-century Romanesque Revival building. Pratt’s Manhattan-based programs benefit from the campus’s cutting-edge technology and its prime location.
PrattMWP
Pratt’s upstate extension campus in Utica, New York, is the result of an affiliation with the renowned MunsonWilliams-Proctor Arts Institute. Students take the first two years of Pratt’s BFA in Fine Art, Photography, Art and Design Education, or Communications Design on Munson’s beautiful central New York State campus and finish the last two years at Pratt in Brooklyn. With stateof-the-art facilities, a world-class museum, and spacious new student apartments in a historic Victorian-era neighborhood, PrattMWP is a wonderful opportunity for students looking for a first-rate art education in a smalltown setting at a significantly lower cost. See mwpai.edu.
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No matter which part of the world Pratt’s students come from, most have known since childhood that they enjoy creating things and solving problems, and they share a desire to change the world and leave their imprint.
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Pratt’s Students
Approximately thirty-three percent of the first-year class comes from other countries, including England, France, Spain, Brazil, China, Canada, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, and Korea. Eighty-one percent of the undergraduate domestic enrollment comes from states other than New York, making Pratt a truly national and international school. One hundred percent of the firstyear class is full-time. The student body is composed of nearly 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
At Pratt, diversity is represented by a mosaic of individuals from a variety of races, ethnicities, religions, gender expressions, sexualities, geographic backgrounds, cultures, ages, abilities, and socioeconomic groups. As a leading college of art and design devoted to a creative learning community, Pratt recognizes the strength that stems from a diversity of perspectives, values, ideas, backgrounds, styles, approaches, experiences, and beliefs.
Pratt welcomes and encourages individuals of all backgrounds to contribute to our culture as their authentic selves. The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion works with partners across the Institute to create an equitable and inclusive environment at Pratt. For more information, visit pratt.edu/diversity.
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Student Life
You are seeking an environment that is both challenging and inspiring, where education is tied to real-world experience—access to all the culture that New York City has to offer, internships in award-winning firms and cutting-edge galleries, and the opportunity to study abroad. You want to know that upon graduation you will benefit from an extensive network that will connect you with jobs throughout your career, so that you can lead a fulfilling and productive life earning a living doing something you love.
Pratt’s Student Involvement Office and the Student Government Association plan weekend events for students. More than 60 student clubs make it possible for students to pursue most of their interests. Pratt students can choose from a number of activities, including honor societies, clubs, sports, and the studentrun school newspaper, publications, or radio station. Students regularly attend films, plays, lectures, art openings, and concerts—both on campus and around New York City. These cultural outings play an essential role in the Pratt experience.
In addition to the residence halls, cafeteria, and cafés where students meet for meals, campus life also centers around the Library, the Schafler Gallery, the Student Union, the Center for Equity and Inclusion, and the Activities Resource Center, where most sports and wellness activities take place.
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Study Abroad Programs
Pratt’s study abroad programs combine the Institute’s academic excellence with firsthand exposure to some of the most vibrant international centers of art, design, and architecture. Programs include Copenhagen, Havana, Rome, Tokyo, and Venice. For more information about individual programs, visit Pratt’s Study Abroad website at pratt.edu/academics/study-abroad or contact Maria Soares, director of study abroad and international partnerships, at msoares@pratt.edu.
Exchange Programs
Pratt maintains exchange programs with some of the best schools of art, design, and architecture in the world. Pratt currently exchanges with 15 partner schools in different countries. The Institute’s emphasis on diversity and the global exchange of knowledge is reflected in the selection of distinguished schools in Australia, England, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Scotland, and Sweden. They include Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts Berlin, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Bauhaus University, and Musashino Art University. Pratt students spend a semester at the partner institution, taking a program of classes in fine arts and design or architecture uniquely tied to the history and traditions of the country. These exchanges are arranged on a semester basis for qualified students. For more information, go to pratt.edu/oia.
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State-of-the-Art Technology
Pratt’s computer labs and digital output centers have the most current equipment available. Computer labs offer computer workstations, color scanners, color and black-and-white printers and plotters, digital and analog output centers, digital photography, video and sound bays, multimedia video projection, and multiple servers. Equipped with everything from film editing and digital animation to two- and three-dimensional rendering, all workstations feature the latest software for the departments using them. Those working in the threedimensional realm have access to 3-D printers, laser cutters, and CNC milling machines. Pratt continually upgrades lab equipment as industry standards change.
Exhibitions
Gallery space, both on the Brooklyn campus and at Pratt Manhattan Center, is extensive, showing the work of students, alumni, faculty, staff, and other wellknown artists, architects, and designers throughout the academic year. Pratt Manhattan Gallery is a public art gallery that strives to present significant work from around the world in the fields of art, architecture, fashion, and design. The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery on the Brooklyn campus mounts faculty and student exhibitions, as well as thematic shows featuring the work of unaffiliated artists. In addition, Pratt has more than 15 other galleries located across its Brooklyn and Manhattan campuses. Pratt Shows, a constantly changing exhibition of senior student work, from February to May, attracts New York City’s top design firms, advertising companies, architecture firms, gallery owners, and others looking for the best talent in their fields.
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Libraries
The Pratt Library on the Brooklyn campus is located in an 1896 landmark building with interiors by the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co. Collections and services are focused on the visual arts, architecture, design, creative writing, and allied fields. The Library houses more than 200,000 volumes of print materials, including more than 776 periodicals, rare books, and the college archives. The Library also includes a multimedia center, housing nearly 3,000 film and video titles, as well as the Visual Resources Center, a collection of more than 120,000 circulating architecture, art, and design digital images. The Pratt Manhattan Center Library supports visiting researchers as well as the Pratt community. The Library has a growing collection of monographs, serials, and multimedia, as well as stock photography. It offers a wide range of electronic resources, including general and subjectspecific databases, all of which are available off-site.
Center for Equity and Inclusion
Pratt’s Center for Equity and Inclusion (CEI) is a safe space on campus that educates, empowers, and advocates for students, faculty, and staff to raise critical consciousness around diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice. The CEI hosts diverse student club meetings and a monthly Community Dialogue Series to discuss current events and issues. The CEI also hosts programming and events for Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy Week, and other national cultural heritage and history months. For more information, visit pratt.edu/cei.
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Athletics and Recreation
Interested in playing an intercollegiate sport while at Pratt? Undergraduate students are welcome to try out. A provisional member of NCAA, D3, men’s intercollegiate athletics teams include basketball, cross country, soccer, indoor and outdoor track and field, tennis, and volleyball. Women’s teams include basketball, cross country, soccer, indoor and outdoor track and field, tennis, and volleyball. Pratt is a member of the Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and fields a total of 14 teams. Pratt also offers intramural sports, fitness and wellness, and informal recreation. See pratt.edu/athletics. Interested in participating in a varsity sport? Visit us online at goprattgo.com, click on “Recruits,” then “Become a Cannoneer.”
For recreational use and fitness, the Activities Resource Center (ARC) houses a 325 × 130-foot athletic area, the largest enclosed ClearSpan facility in Brooklyn, aside from the Barclays Center. The complex includes five regulation-size tennis courts, two volleyball courts, and an NCAA basketball court. The ARC provides 650 bleacher seats for intercollegiate basketball, volleyball, the Colgate Women’s Games, and other spectator sports events. This enclosed area has a seating capacity for up to 1,000 people for special events. The four-lane, 200-meter indoor track completely encircles the athletic court areas. There are full locker room facilities with saunas. The second floor houses a fully equipped and newly renovated weight and fitness room and a dance studio. Recreational and intramural activities are scheduled throughout the year and range from individual and team sports to special events.
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Cultural Partnerships in New York City
Pratt has partnerships with an ever-increasing number of major cultural institutions in Brooklyn and Manhattan, so Pratt students may take advantage of the vast opportunities offered free of charge or at a discounted rate. In Brooklyn, these include the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
In Manhattan, Pratt students also enjoy visiting these institutions where admission fees are waived: The Frick Collection, the Jewish Museum, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), MoMA, and the New Museum.
Internship and Career Support
The Center for Career and Professional Development offers career and internship counseling, résumé and portfolio assistance, industry mentoring, professional development, workshops, entrepreneurial support, and a lifelong job search support system. New York City’s location provides a distinct advantage for students looking for internships or job experience. Qualified students are offered challenging on-the-job experiences in top art galleries, publishing houses, and architecture and design firms in both Manhattan and Brooklyn, giving them firsthand work experience as well as credit toward their professional degree. According to Pratt’s most recent employment survey, 99 percent of students were employed or continuing education within one year of graduation.
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Intensive English Program
The Intensive English Program (IEP) provides academic English language instruction to matriculated graduate and undergraduate students. Good communication skills are essential to academic success at Pratt Institute. Instruction in the IEP emphasizes language use for general academic and specific purposes in the professions in which Pratt specializes: art, design, architecture, and information and library science. IEP faculty are trained and experienced in teaching English as a second language, as well as in integrating art and design content into their courses. The classes are small (eight to 12 students per session), and enrolled international students benefit from their use of the Language Resource and Writing and Tutorial Centers for additional language learning practice.
Writing and Tutorial Center
The Writing and Tutorial Center provides free tutoring for all Pratt students in English, math, physics, art history, thesis preparation, and other academic areas. Special assistance is provided for students for whom English is a second language. Small-group and regularly scheduled one-to-one conversation sessions are also offered.
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Pratt offers undergraduate and graduate programs that are consistently ranked among the top five or 10 in the country and the world.
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Undergraduate program rankings
Design and Applied Arts
Ranked first in New York and second in the nation by College Factual, 2019.
Architecture
Ranked first of 93 schools nationwide by College Factual, 2018.
Animation
Animation Career Review ranked Pratt second in New York, third in the East, and seventh nationally among private schools and colleges, 2021.
Interior Design
Ranked second nationally by DesignIntelligence, 2016–17.
Design and Applied Arts Programs
Ranked first of 217 colleges offering design and applied arts programs, College Factual, 2018.
Industrial Design
Ranked second regionally by DesignIntelligence, 2016.
Graphic Design
Animation Career Review ranked Pratt the number one graphic design school in New York, 2020.
Fashion Design
Ranked second nationally among private schools and colleges (top 3% of schools considered) and #3 nationally (top 3% of schools considered) by fashion-schools. org , 2018.
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Animation Career Review ranked Pratt #2 nationally among schools offering graphic design, #3 nationally, #3 among private schools and colleges, and #3 on the East Coast, 2020.
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Ranked fifth of the top US art and design schools in Fashionista, 2016.
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Ranked fifth (top 4%) by Animation Career Review, 2019.
Interior Design
Ranked fourth among the world’s top 10 interior design programs by arch20. com, 2019.
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Ranked sixth of the 50 best architecture programs in the United States by learn. org , 2020–21.
Fine Arts
Ranked fourth in New York by College Factual, 2019.
Game Design and Interactive Media
Ranked fifth of the 20 best game design programs by bestvalueschools.org , 2021.
Film
Ranked one of the country’s 10 best colleges for film in USA Today, 2014, and ranked among the top in the nation in Variety magazine, 2019.
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Ranked among the top 25 American film schools by The Hollywood Reporter, 2018.
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Pratt was ranked among the top design schools by Bloomberg Businessweek and among the top seven art and design schools in the world by QS World University Rankings, 2022.
Pratt ranked first of 217 colleges offering design and applied arts programs (College Factual, 2018).
Pratt ranked first of the top 20 best art schools in the world (Webdesigndegreecenter.org , 2017).
Pratt was recognized as one of the country’s most environmentally responsible colleges in The Princeton Review’s 2013 Guide to 322 Green Colleges.
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Pratt’s wide variety of majors and concentrations—from traditional arts to the most contemporary digital animation and interactive art—enables students to explore all their interests by taking minors and electives in different departments, leading to extraordinarily complex and interesting work influenced by different disciplines. Pratt’s programs are consistently ranked among the best in the country.
Choose from more than 25 undergraduate majors and concentrations in four schools (Architecture, Art, Design, and Liberal Arts and Sciences), take electives in other departments, or pursue a minor. Or choose one of the five majors in our two-year Associate Degree Programs in Manhattan. The Associate of Applied Science programs are transfer programs; students take the last two years in Brooklyn or are free to apply to any other college.
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Institute welcomes applications from all qualified students, regardless of age, sex, religion, race, color, creed, national origin, or disability. Admissions committees base their decisions on a careful review of all credentials submitted by the applicant. Although admission standards at Pratt are high, extraordinary talent may sometimes offset a lower grade point average.
O ice of Undergraduate Admissions is open weekdays from 9 AM to 5 PM from September through May, and from 9 AM to 4 PM in June, July, and August.
with Pratt Take a campus tour, meet with us at one of the National Portfolio Days, or attend an information session. Bring your family and portfolio and meet with us by appointment. See pratt.edu/visit for specific information on all our events, virtual or in person.
Admissions O ice recommends that prospective applicants visit as early as the spring of their junior year to allow ample time to prepare portfolio work. Students who are younger are welcome to attend an information session and a campus tour. Call our visit coordinator at 718.636.3779 or 800.331.0834 to schedule a portfolio review. You may also email a request to visit@pratt.edu. 84
89 Work by Anna Fusco, BFA Fine Arts (Printmaking) ’20 How to Apply Fall admission deadlines (bachelor’s degree programs) Early action: November 1 (high school applicants only; nonbinding) Regular admission: January 5 (first-time/first-year students); February 1 (transfer students) Spring admission deadlines (bachelor’s degree programs) International applicants: September 1 Domestic applicants: October 1 Two-year associate’s degree applicants may apply on a rolling admissions basis throughout the year but are encouraged to apply by the priority deadlines noted above. First-time/first-year students apply to Pratt through the Common App at commonapp.org. Transfer students apply using the CollegeNET online application available on the Pratt website. The online application, as well as up to date requirements, may be found at pratt.edu/apply. Visual and writing portfolios must be uploaded and submitted at pratt.slideroom.com. See pratt.edu/apply for instructions on submitting your application and supporting documents. 85
82 Admission Requirements for First-Time College Students Common App application form Application fee O icial transcripts from each high school attended, or o icial GED scores Two letters of recommendation Visual or writing portfolio, dependent on program Test of English proficiency for students whose first language is not English Pratt accepts the following tests: TOEFL (iBT, Home Edition, and ITP Plus) PTE IELTS or IELTS Indicator SAT/ACT exam results (English test waiver crieria can be found at pratt.edu/apply) Course by course credential evaluation for international students Recommended for those who have attended a high school in another country whose educational system greatly differs from the US educational system in structure or grading scale. SAT/ACT test scores (optional) First-year applicants must submit both the Pratt essay and the Common App essay 86
89 Work by Anna Fusco, BFA Fine Arts (Printmaking) ’20 Admission Requirements for Transfer Students Application form with fee (online) High school transcripts High school transcripts are not required for students who have attended at least four semesters of college full-time or have earned at least 48 credits by the semester for which they are applying. College transcripts for each school attended Credential evaluations for students who have studied outside the U.S. and have international degrees Two letters of recommendation Visual or writing portfolio, dependent on program Essay (part of application form) Test of English proficiency for students whose first language is not English Pratt accepts the following tests: TOEFL (iBT, Home Edition, and ITP Plus) PTE IELTS or IELTS Indicator SAT/ACT exam results (English test waiver crieria can be found at pratt.edu/apply) 87
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