Risely for art and design colleges
Give the portfolio review the time it deserves.
Risely's agents work inside the admissions system, the aid system and the career platform an art and design college already runs. They do the work a staff member would do and bring it back finished for the studio chair or the aid director to approve.
Portfolio review
Each portfolio should reach a prepared reader.
Risely's agents match the transcript, file the statement and log the recommendation before the work is opened. Your faculty reader opens the portfolio with the rest of the file already finished.
The award
The award should hold the seat it won.
Risely's agents build each award out of the funds the college already holds and price it against the four years the seat carries. Your aid director knows what the offer costs and what it returns before it goes out.
The studio
Studio capacity should shape the size of the class.
Risely's agents lay next year's class onto the studio grid, hour by hour, and show what each added seat claims from critique. Your studio chair sizes the class against the hours the college can staff.
Career and the placement record
The placement record should answer what families ask.
Risely's agents record where last year's graduates landed, discipline by discipline, and keep the count current six months out. Your staff can tell a family on a tour where illustration graduates went, with a number behind it.
Four systems, one artist.
Admissions knows an applicant number. Financial aid keeps another. The student system and the career office each add their own for the same person.
Risely Fabric joins them around the portfolio and the person who made it, leaving every system exactly where it is.
Across 42 specialized private nonprofit art and design colleges, 99 percent of full-time first-year students receive institutional aid, with a median grant of $20,234 against a $46,343 sticker price, according to IPEDS.