Scholarships for Westphal?

dutallen
Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:01:26 +0000

I received a $16,500 Deans Scholarship and it’s renewable each year if I keep up a 3.0 GPA. I am actually a transfer student so my application experience is a lot different from the normal freshmen’s. I transferred from a community college with a 3.85 GPA. I only completed a year there (Fall 10/Spring 11) but I also did go there in Fall of 2006 which I withdrew from. So I did have 4 W’s on my transcript. Since I was a transfer student with over 24 credits completed I did not have to send in any high school transcripts. In fact I wasn’t the best student in high school. I only had a 1170 SAT. 650 Math 520 Verbal. (the essay portion wasn’t added until a year later). I also applied really late, during the last week of May, so I had a couple negatives against me.

So, my background will probably be zero help to you (I’m sorry!) but at least I can still tell you about the school. I was familiar with Drexel before applying since I had friends who already graduated there. This is my first year there and I’m really enjoying it. I’ve always wanted to live/work/go to school in the city, so Drexel fits in really well. I’m confident that I will have a career in animation. The things we do here are way more advanced that any other schools I’ve researched in the area. When I was doing my research for what college I wanted to go to for animation, I was blown away at the differences from the student’s work at Drexel than the other colleges around the Philadelphia area. Recent graduates have also landed jobs at Pixar, Dreamworks, and Universal, so I have a positive outlook for myself.

Drexel bought a building and is gutting/renovating it to house the Westphal College. The new facilities seem like they will be very nice and having state of the art equipment will is always a plus. Here is a link to a news letter they sent out for the new building called the URBN Center: An error has occurred; Currently the digital media program lies in the basement of University Crossings (It’s not as bad as it sounds lol). They have multiple computer labs (both Mac and PC) and the computers are updated annually. There is also a ton of other cool equipment like motion capture cameras for when you get more advanced into your classes. I hope I gave you a little more insight to Drexel and I can try to answer any more questions you may have.