BERRIDGE PROGRAMS 2021 APPLICATION

Please note that THIS FORM DOES NOT SAVE. You will need to fill it out all at once and attach any supporting materials as you go. If you do not hear from us within 5-7 days regarding your application please get in touch, we may not have received your application properly. Please email Andrea Mardon, Director, at andrea@berridgeprograms.com to check on the status of your application. Thank you!

I am applying as a (check one)

Gap Year Student

High School Student

I am applying for:

Spotlight at Westmont College California 2021

Generate at Westmont College California 2021

Creative Semester Gap Year

Summer Theatre and Film France 2022

SPOTLIGHT MAJORS (Choose 2)

Musical Theatre

Writing

Acting

Film

GENERATE MAJORS (Choose 1)

PERSONAL INFORMATION

First Name *

Middle Name

Last Name *

Preferred pronoun

They/Them

He/Him

She/Hers

Prefer not to answer

Street Address *

City *

State

Country (if other than US)

Zip/Postal Code *

Cell Phone

Email Address *

Mother First Name *

Father First Name *

Mother cell *

Father cell *

Mother Email *

Father email *

Mother Profession *

Father Profession *

ACADEMIC INFORMATION

Current School/College Name (if you are accepted and deferred at a college please enter that school)

School Street Address

City

State

Country (if other than US)

Zip/Postal Code

Phone Number

Last grade completed

Your Date of Birth *

Current GPA and/or results

ALL APPLICANTS

I am applying as (you may check ONLY one)

Regular Applicant

Merit Scholarship Applicant

Financial Need Scholarship

Diversity Scholarship

If you are applying for a scholarship, please make sure that you have read the scholarship information linked on our website before you apply. Please complete the additional sections in this application found below.

PERSONAL STATEMENT (ALL Applicants) MAY BE WRITTEN OR VIDEO TAPED. Please prepare a short personal statement to help us get to know you better. You might include why you want to study on a Berridge program, what you hope to gain out of the program, what your future goals are or anything you would like us to know about you. It should be about one page long or 1-2 minutes taped. Max file upload here is 10MB. For bigger files please email to andrea@berridgeprograms.com

PERSONAL STATEMENT UPLOAD (Document or Video File)

Recent photo of you (If you haven't included a video audition or video personal statement)

Teacher Reference Name

Teacher Reference Email

ALL SCHOLARSHIP APPLICANTS

LETTER OF REFERENCE (For ALL scholarship application ONLY)
Please have your theatre teacher EMAIL a reference letter to andrea@berridgeprograms.com or attach one here.

AUDITION MATERIAL/PORTFOLIO SUBMISSION If you are applying for a FINANCIAL NEED OR DIVERSITY scholarship, please submit materials to support your application. For ACTING and MUSICAL THEATRE programs, please submit a 1-2 minute audition monolouge from a published play/musical. For FILM, WRITING OR STUDIO ART, please submit any pieces of work you would like us to consider including film, video, Vlog, photographys, paintings or drawings. Work should be submitted via We Transfer in one complete file to andrea@berridgeprograms.com.

FINANCIAL NEED and DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP APPLICANTS

In addition to ALL of the items listed above (personal statement, taped audition or portfolio and teacher reference letter) please provide the following information:

FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Please write a brief statement telling us about your financial situation and why you are requesting scholarship. Please include BOTH your parents GROSS INCOME and ADJUSTED GROSS INCOME figures from their most recent tax return.

If you are at a fee paying school, you must be on scholarship at your school to qualify. If you are at a fee paying school please provide us with the name and email of the person who can verify your scholarship.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

How did you hear about our program? (Please be as detailed as possible) *

0/200 words

Please tell us about other gap year/summer programs/camps/ internships or relevant employment you have done *

If you have travelled overseas before please tell us where

ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE
Please sign in the box below *

DEPOSIT/PAYMENT INFORMATION

There is no deposit due with this application.

For Gap Year students:

You will receive an email confirmation of your acceptance into the program within 5-7 days of your application. Once you have been accepted there will be a $2500 USD deposit due and full payment is due on Oct 15th for Jan 2022 start. If you are applying after these dates your tuition will be due in full when you are accepted.

For High School students:

You will receive an email confirmation of your acceptance into the program within 7-10 days of your application. Once you have been accepted into the program, you will need to secure your space with a $1000 USD deposit. Full payment is due on April 15th, 2021.

Full payment instructions will be sent to you once you have been accepted to the program.