About the Workshop

We’re excited to offer BICAR’s renowned curriculum on how to write successful applications in workshop form. We’ll dissipate the anxiety we feel when applying to schools, colleges, graduate programs, residencies, grants, fellowships, jobs, really when we apply for anything. 

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You’ll learn to write fundamental documents, including a Personal Statement and Statement of Purpose, that you can adapt and update for all of your applications, present and future. 

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The workshop teaches how to style, argue, and logically articulate why you are the right fit for where you’re applying in a persuasive way, whether you are:

Students applying to Undergraduate Colleges and Universities 

Postgraduate Students applying to Masters and PhD Programs 

Artists and Curators applying to MFAs, Residencies, and Grants 

Individuals applying for Fellowships, Scholarships, and Grants  

Institutions applying for Grants

Rohit Goel is BICAR’s Director and created the WRITE: Applications curriculum, based on decades of experience. For ten years, he has been a juror on Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation Scholarship and Grant committees. He has also served as a juror and taught on 421’s Curatorial Development Program (Abu Dhabi), helped shape the Prince Claus Fond’s Moving Narratives Artist Fellowship, was a member of the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science's Faculty Hiring Committee, and was an interviewer of high school students applying to Harvard College. 

Rohit has taught courses in critical theory at the University of Chicago, Sciences Po Paris, the American University of Beirut, and Jnanapravaha Mumbai. He received the Fulbright IIE and Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) fellowships to pursue years of Arabic language study and was awarded the Fulbright DDRA and Andrew C. Mellon Fellowship for PhD dissertation research in primary sources. He completed his BA from Harvard College and, as Harvard University’s Paul Williams Fellow to Emmanuel College, was granted an MPhil in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge.

Students will receive a Certificate of Completion upon successful attendance of the workshop.

To register, we can facilitate two modes of payment — Indian bank account holders can pay through Direct Bank Transfer or through our Payment Gateway Those without an Indian bank account can pay through our Payment Gateway.