AP Scholarship

Fully funded one-to-one guidance for applicants to architecture schools.

Most students work with us through our paid one-to-one tutoring service. We often have tutoring availability in the first half of the year for those applying to universities towards the end of the year.

However, each admissions cycle we take on a limited number of students to tutor free of charge as AP Scholarship students, on the basis of merit and diligence. They should be organised and thorough enough to complete the scholarship work below. Care and persistence are valued highly (more than skill, means, and technical knowledge). The percentage acceptance rate for this scholarship is in the low single digits. However, all students from all over the world are encouraged to apply. If the student is clearly capable, but we are unable to take them on as a scholarship student, they will be given free access to the AP Core.

Scholarship applicants must be:

• An applicant to any accredited undergraduate degree of architecture. 
• Able to give high quality responses to the exam given on this page.
• Highly competent and skilled. 
• Willing to learn and exchange ideas.
• More than three months away from their admissions deadlines.
• No more than two years away from their admissions deadlines.
• Be willing and able to receive between 3-8 months of continuous tutoring, with a maximum of 4hrs of tutoring per month. This often works out as an hour of tutoring per week. 

To note:

• Each student will be personally tutored one-to-one by Sebastian.
• This tutoring is identical to our regular paid tutoring service except for the fact that it is free of charge.
• All tutoring sessions will adhere to Architecture Prep’s Terms and Conditions.
• All tutoring sessions will be online.
• Students will be selected purely on the quality of their exam responses.
• There are no right answers to this exam.
• There is no requirement to have access to expensive tools/softwares/materials to complete this exam.
• There is no requirement to take a long/short time to complete your responses. This is up to you.
• While Architecture Prep’s tutoring is oriented around admissions to university choices, it should be known that the best students work with us for the purpose of their own creative improvement. Applications to universities are secondary to this, though part of the process. 
• The exam prompts change from time to time. It is not a problem if you have responded to a prompt that is no longer listed.
• Your responses will be kept confidential in line with our Privacy Notice.
• Existing students of AP are eligible to apply for the AP Scholarship.
• Your responses will be reviewed within seven days of receipt, and you will not be informed if your responses are unsuccessful. If you have not heard back after seven days, and you’d still like to work with AP under our paid tutoring program, please request a call.
• If your exam responses are successful, you will be emailed to schedule a call with Sebastian to discuss them further, and to discuss the potential of being taken on as a student. This call may or may not lead to you being taken on as a student, and you will be updated accordingly within two days of the call.
• You may only take this exam once within a calendar year. Multiple submissions are not accepted.

Exam

Please respond to three questions from each section. Your responses may be made in any manner you deem appropriate. Once you have completed your exam, please upload your responses to this form.

Visual Section

1. Draw the first dimension.
2. Draw the second dimension.
3. Draw the third dimension.
4. Draw the fourth dimension.
5. Construct and photograph the third dimension.
6. Draw a drawing using paint.
7. Paint a painting using drawing.
8. Invent a camera and take a photograph with it.
9. Document your hands visually.
10. Make a cube and photograph all of its sides in one photograph.

Written Section

1. In a short paragraph, describe what a good student is.
2. In a short paragraph, describe what a good teacher is.
3. In a short paragraph, describe your interest in your favourite author.
4. In a short paragraph, describe your visual work (either your exam responses or any other visual work you’ve made).
5. In a short sentence, describe how Frank Auerbach’s paintings are or are not relevant to the subject of architecture.
6. In less than 1000 words, describe the similarities between the work of Donald Judd and Francis Bacon.
7. Charles Ray said that ‘art is about nothing’. What do you think?
8. Use a more accurate phrase to describe ‘abstract art’. Use this phrase as the title of an essay and write the essay.
9. British schools teach ‘subjects’. By comparison, Americans often call these ‘classes’. Is ‘subject’ an appropriate word to use? 
10. In 500 words or less, describe what an education in architecture is.