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For BBA and BA/BS applicants with the intended majors:
Design and Management or Environmental Studies
Application Procedure
The Admissions Committee will make a decision on your application only after all of the following materials have been received:
Requirements
- Application: Complete the online application.
- Application Fee: $50 non-refundable application fee is required. Payment can be made by credit card, check or money order.
- Official high school or college transcripts. All applicants with international transcripts are required to submit an original transcript, a certified English language translation, and a Course-By-Course Evaluation Report with their supporting materials. These course-by-course reports are prepared by World Education Services (www.wes.org), our preferred provider, or another member of the National Association of Credit Evaluation Services (NACES). We recommend that you start the evaluation process, including submission of all required documents to WES (or another provider), as early as possible, in order to ensure the timely completion of your evaluation report. Request that your report be sent to Parsons The New School for Design, University Admissions, 72 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10011. (If you apply online, search for “New School Parsons" when requesting our institution.) If another provider is unable to send the report directly to the school, please collect and send the evaluation report along with a Materials Cover Sheet.
- SAT or ACT Exam Results: Required of all applicants currently in American high schools.
- TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) Exam Results: Required if English is not your native language. Minimum score required for BBA applicants: 580 paper-based, 237 computer-based, or 92 internet-based. Minimum score required for BA/BS applicants: 600 paper-based, 250 computer-based, or 100 internet-based. International students should register for the exam at the earliest possible test date available. Visit the TOEFL site for more information.
- Essay or Statement of Purpose, instructions follow below.
- Parsons Challenge (does not apply to BS/BA applicants), instructions follow below.
BBA Essay Instructions
In an essay of 500-550 words, please describe a situation in which you combined creativity and analysis to solve a challenging problem. We are open to any problem: it could be personal, social, political, environmental, or something very different. We are more interested in your process or method in considering the problem, than whether you reached a complete solution.
BS Statement of Purpose
In an essay of 500-550 words, please discuss a major environmental challenge facing a large urban area such as New York, Los Angeles, Mexico City, London, etc. and propose a solution that would focus on design and sustainability.
Parsons Challenge
BBA applicants must submit the 6-part exercise described below. Completed assignments may be submitted in three ways:
- You may upload and submit your 6-part Parsons Challenge (as individual .jpg, .tiff, .gif, .pdf, or .doc files, 2MB limit each) as part of the online application. If you select this method of submission, further instructions will be provided in the Additional Requirements section of the online application. Parsons recommends using Blogspot and Flicker. We do not recommend using MySpace, Facebook, or Deviantart.
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- You may provide us with a URL/link to a website where the Admissions Committee can view your Parsons Challenge. If you select this method of submission, you will be asked for a valid URL/link (as well as navigation instructions) in the online application.
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- You may mail your completed Parsons Challenge to the Admissions Office. If submitted via mail, presentation must be in one of the following formats only: slides, cross-platform CD Rom, or DVD. All mailed materials must be accompanied by a Materials Cover Sheet, available in the Supplemental Forms section of the online application. All work must be clearly marked with your name and date of birth.
Instructions:
- Where do you live? What are your everyday activities? Where do you go? What have you overlooked? Discover something new within your familiar surroundings and daily life; this might be an object, event, activity, or location.
- Interpret your discovery in three (3) perspectives in any medium and in three (3) statements of approximately 150 words each. Projects may proceed from image to text or text to image. Each interpretation should represent a different perspective or point of view. Each statement should explore your creative and imaginative process and contribute to the work in both form and content.
- Media may include drawing, video, photography, sculpture, 3-D work, collage, digital images or any combination of the above.
Your work will be evaluated on both your writing and your visuals and the relationship you are able to create between the two.
 Application Materials Cover Sheet
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