Requirements for Entering College

After applying to the local college, I was sent this sheet of requirements to be evaluated by the staff for approval of allowing me to buy higher education.

Richmond Professional Institute

Commercial Art & Design Department

901 West Franklin Street

Richmond, Virginia 23220

COMMERCIAL ART AND DESIGN DEPARTMENT ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

We require all entering students to complete the following and mail them directly to this department in a regulation manila envelope, 9 ½ x 12 ½ inches. All materials are to be mailed flat with a cardboard filler so that the drawings will not be damaged. This material will not be returned. No action will be taken on a port-folio if it does not contain all of the above items.

1. Make a freehand perspective drawing of the house you live in, on a sheet of paper, 8 x 11 inches.

2. Make a freehand perspective drawing of a corner of a room, including at least three pieces of furniture. It can be pencil or wash on a sheet of paper, 8 x 11 inches.

3. Make a freehand pencil drawing of a figure, from life, to fill the following size paper: approximately 16 x 22 inches (so when folded twice it will fit into the mailing envelope). Copies from photographs or other drawings are not acceptable. They must be drawn from living persons.

4. Make an illustration of the most interesting even that you can recall, on any paper or illustration board to fit the envelope. Write a paragraph of explanation.

5. Letter your name in ink, no less than 1 inch in height on any type paper.

6. List all the magazines you read through each month. List the books you have read over the past two years.

7. Enclose a small photograph of yourself, approximately 1 ½ x 1 ½ inches for our departmental files.

8. Pair off the following words into inventive two-word combinations. Do not add to the list below:

Tree baboon burglar cow show shoe

Ancient canary circus boy tom see

Arrow Cicero ditto bird horse saw

Fall dungarees driver house rain girl

1.________ 4.________ 7.________ 10.________

2.________ 5.________ 8.________ 11.________

3.________ 6.________ 9.________ 12.________

9. Using the same idea above, but with cut-out magazines photographs of human figures and objects, paste up these photos in combinations that are (1) inventive and (2) in opposition to each other. Paste up five sheets of 8 x 11 inches on one side only.

10. With your attention elsewhere (as often happens when talking on the phone) make a series of automatic scribbles. Select five that look interesting and mount all five on a 8 x 11 sheet. Take those left over and by cutting and pasting them in new combination with each other on a second 8 x 11 inch sheet.

DO NOT CALL OR WRITE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON ANY OF THE ABOVE. WE ARE INTERESTED ONLY IN HOW YOU WORK IT OUT. DO NOT CONSULT WITH ANYONE (ART TEACHER, PARENTS, FRIENDS). THIS IS TO BE YOUR WORK.

The above material should be sent in without delay. We have a limited enrollment for Freshmen in this department, and in the past, students have postponed sending their drawings until after our enrollment was filled.

We thank you for your interest and look forward to seeing your work.

....and somehow, I got in. And more amazing I got out in only 4 years.