WRITE: Applications
BICAR’s team of accomplished Applications advisors are trained in BICAR's proprietary WRITE model to provide personalised instruction for:
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
Professionals applying for Jobs
Institutions applying for Grants
Depending on your application requirements, we'll work with you to compose singular:
Personal Statements
Statements of Purpose
Artist and Curatorial Statements and Portfolios
Project Descriptions and Research Proposals
Video Pitches
Cover Letters and CVs
Get in touch for an online consultation so we can understand:
What applications are you writing and why?
What are your deadlines?
What stage have you reached in the application thinking/writing process?
We'll work together to tailor and cost a program that will ensure you submit your applications on time, with confidence, and within your budget!
BICAR will pair you with an expert from our team who is the right fit for the kinds of applications you are writing.
Your advisor will work with you to create an Applications schedule, calibrated with your submission deadlines, and will stay with you throughout your application writing journey.
In your first full session, you and your advisor will review a schedule of 'targets' you will accomplish to submit your applications; your advisor will provide instruction on how to reach your first application writing goal.
In subsequent sessions, you and your advisor will revise your completed target and you'll learn how to reach the next ones.
Before you submit, you'll have final meetings to edit and polish your applications so you'll make your deadlines on time, with confidence!
How does WRITE: Applications work?
BICAR walked me through the process of writing application statements in a structured and conversational manner, starting from ways to approach the writing, how to style the writing, and how to keep the reader engaged with the writing. We carefully dissected different parts of many sample essays, making it easier to understand the flow of application writing content, styles, and genuine strategies. Before working with BICAR on my applications, I never knew the important list of ‘Dos and Don'ts’ when writing applications! The pedagogy also covered the difference in content requirements for a Personal Statement, Statement of Purpose, and Cover Letter. Participants shared our respective drafts and received valuable feedback. My key takeaways were: what to include and what to omit in admission and scholarship application essays, ways to highlight the strengths of my personal and educational experiences without boasting, and how to outline my career goals in a way that fit with the institutions and funding bodies to which I was applying.
- Khushboo (MFA Candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London; Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation Scholarship 2022)
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Why WRITE: Applications?
Our track-record!
For the past four years, we've offered students, artists, professionals, and institutes our personalised, one-on-one Applications program with a remarkable success rate.
We're cost-flexible!
We don’t charge an entire amount upfront. Different application writers require different levels of assistance depending on where they are in the writing/thinking process and how much time they take to advance. We charge according to each applicant’s requirements.
Our curriculum is foundational!
The writing principles you’ll learn in WRITE: Applications will stay with you forever. Once you go through the program, you’ll know how to compose future applications without needing to come back to us.
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.